Rosa Honkonen

Happy Sassy Beautiful

Kaija Koo is one of the most popular artists in Finnish pop music and power ballads. The biopic follows Kaija Koo's journey through music and life as she navigates through her challenges and finds true freedom in her personal and professional life. From an insecure young woman, she grows into an independent and strong woman whose personal growth story, and especially the songs that emerge from it, will empower many generations.

28 Days Left

A Finnish-Palestinian woman, Amani Lillak, is completing her voluntary military service in the Finnish Army’s medical corps. During a final combat exercise, Lillak learns that the crisis in her father’s homeland has further escalated. Film selected for the Cannes Film Festival La Cinéf competition lineup.

Flocks

Valeria, an Afro-Finnish soccer player, becomes her team's new captain, dealing with pressure and conflicting emotions from others' expectations. Aurora, a non-binary worker, seeks their place but feels invisible. Nora looks for love but feels that she is only seen through her dark skin and curly hair. Rascist comments make her doubt her new crush's intentions. Selma gets trapped in tunnels during choir practice, confronting her fears in the darkness. Piera Niillas, a Saami activist, fights for a society free from oppression. The Quiet Man reflects on the diverse experiences of city life. The multi-story Flocks portrays minority experiences in contemporary Finland, touching on belonging, rejection, acceptance, and the complexities of Finnish identity and relationships. This fictional film sheds light on marginalized voices and societal issues, immersing characters and viewers in tense social realities.

Major Bag Alert

2005. Gossip around the school is that 16-year-old Janina's family is having serious financial troubles. Janina and her group of friends plan to prove the rumours wrong by stealing an expensive handbag from the neighbourhood shopping centre.

Stupid Young Heart

When carefree, young Lenni and his girlfriend find themselves expecting a child, he ends up looking for a role model in all the wrong places as he becomes involved with local right-wing activists.

The Ice Hockey Film by Heidi

Heidi's fantasy about hockey player Lauri Mäntyvaara doesn't go quite right.

Thick Lashes of Lauri Mäntyvaara

There's this hot ice-hockey guy called Lauri Mäntyvaara. Satu promises she'll do her best, so that her best friend Heidi will get him. You'd think that the picturesque Finnish Archipelago would be the perfect place to discover your first love (and get rid of your virginity), but it will not be easy, if a cynical protein-shake-slurping ice hockey team thinks the target of your desire should focus only on the European Championship, and the only places you can escape to are the pretentious summer wedding parties - or bitter divorce parties.

Deadwind

When Sofia Karppi, a detective in her 30's who is trying to get over her husband's death, discovers the body of a young woman on a construction site, she triggers a chain of events that threatens to destroy her life again.

Happy Sassy Beautiful

Kaija Koo is one of the most popular artists in Finnish pop music and power ballads. The biopic follows Kaija Koo's journey through music and life as she navigates through her challenges and finds true freedom in her personal and professional life. From an insecure young woman, she grows into an independent and strong woman whose personal growth story, and especially the songs that emerge from it, will empower many generations.

28 Days Left

A Finnish-Palestinian woman, Amani Lillak, is completing her voluntary military service in the Finnish Army’s medical corps. During a final combat exercise, Lillak learns that the crisis in her father’s homeland has further escalated. Film selected for the Cannes Film Festival La Cinéf competition lineup.

Flocks

Valeria, an Afro-Finnish soccer player, becomes her team's new captain, dealing with pressure and conflicting emotions from others' expectations. Aurora, a non-binary worker, seeks their place but feels invisible. Nora looks for love but feels that she is only seen through her dark skin and curly hair. Rascist comments make her doubt her new crush's intentions. Selma gets trapped in tunnels during choir practice, confronting her fears in the darkness. Piera Niillas, a Saami activist, fights for a society free from oppression. The Quiet Man reflects on the diverse experiences of city life. The multi-story Flocks portrays minority experiences in contemporary Finland, touching on belonging, rejection, acceptance, and the complexities of Finnish identity and relationships. This fictional film sheds light on marginalized voices and societal issues, immersing characters and viewers in tense social realities.

Major Bag Alert

2005. Gossip around the school is that 16-year-old Janina's family is having serious financial troubles. Janina and her group of friends plan to prove the rumours wrong by stealing an expensive handbag from the neighbourhood shopping centre.

Stupid Young Heart

When carefree, young Lenni and his girlfriend find themselves expecting a child, he ends up looking for a role model in all the wrong places as he becomes involved with local right-wing activists.

The Ice Hockey Film by Heidi

Heidi's fantasy about hockey player Lauri Mäntyvaara doesn't go quite right.

Thick Lashes of Lauri Mäntyvaara

There's this hot ice-hockey guy called Lauri Mäntyvaara. Satu promises she'll do her best, so that her best friend Heidi will get him. You'd think that the picturesque Finnish Archipelago would be the perfect place to discover your first love (and get rid of your virginity), but it will not be easy, if a cynical protein-shake-slurping ice hockey team thinks the target of your desire should focus only on the European Championship, and the only places you can escape to are the pretentious summer wedding parties - or bitter divorce parties.

Deadwind

When Sofia Karppi, a detective in her 30's who is trying to get over her husband's death, discovers the body of a young woman on a construction site, she triggers a chain of events that threatens to destroy her life again.

All the Sins

Cold-blooded murders in the Laestadian community of Varjakka take criminal investigators to the heart of guilt and forgiveness over three decades.

Justimus presents: Duo

Samu and Joona are an inseparable couple, each other's only friends. They don’t leave each other in the lurch, even if they run the risk of getting fired from school or a badge in their buttocks. In fact, the boys are so intertwined that they are willing to do anything to be together. Like breaking into the principal’s office, lapping at millionaires, escaping half-brother Mark from the grenade, or being buried alive.