Movies: Heikki Rantanen

Episodic study of feelings where six stories intertwine over one Saturday in a small town. Two boys save a young woman, Anni, and her baby from suicide by drowning. Esa, a down-on-his-luck musician in need of a loan, arrives to his father's 60th birt...

Katri and Janne want to make a trip, which none of their friends have made. They end up in Jakomäki....

Two teenage girls, one of them desperate to lose her virginity, take a hitchhiking road trip....

In 2017 Finland celebrates 100 years of independence. The famous philosopher Bruno is curing his writers' block in Lapland, when he gets an invitation to the President's Grand Ball in Helsinki. The railway systems are frozen and he misses the only pl...

Umur tells a love story strongly connected to the nature of Lapland, in which Poika, a young border guard played with sensitivity by Heikki Rantanen, falls passionately in love with the mysterious Lapland beauty Umuri....

The meaning of life is a piece of cake....

A romantic comedy about 30-year-old Leo and a 40-year-old, pregnant single mother of three, Maarit....

The story of a young poet who became a symbol for Finnish optimism and was subsequently forced underground during Tsar Nicholas II's oppressive dictatorship....