Movies: Ilkka Niemi

Four stories about Finnish life intersect. In the first one, drum artist Monkki Mähönen arrives for a renovation job at his old band mate's summer villa. Second story revolves around wannabe motorcycle gang and its leader Jouni who are being humiliat...

Fire, water, wind, earth and emptiness... Five core elements of life that once inspired a book. The Book of Fate. Far away from here there was a mythical world -free of suffering and injustice. But it wasn't enough. People wanted to play God... They ...

Back in the early 1970s, at a mental institution near the Russian border, a crazed doctor, Dr. Anderson assumed the persona of "the Auteur," and began murdering his patients while filming the atrocities. Thirty years later, an American film crew has ...

“Where on earth is the snow this year?” wonder Riitta and the teddy bear family in the middle of Hirsimetsä. What if there is no snow – if the teddy bears’ sledding hill and ski trail are not covered with a white blanket of snow like in previous wint...

It is quiet in the forest, it is almost midnight. The teddy bear family's home is sleeping under the starry sky. The sounds of the night can be heard from the forest and a slight breeze keeps the teddy bears awake, but what on earth is happening in t...