Travelling with Tove

Tove and Tooti in Europe is a documentary charting the voyages through Europe of the world famous author Tove Jansson and graphic artist Tuulikki Pietilä during the years 1972-1993. It is a lyrical and sometimes hilarious film essay on the “old Europe”, experienced by travellers and observers, of times when people used to wander, share a joke, pause and, sometimes, even stop. Shot on Super 8 mm, the film takes us to Paris, Venice, London, Madrid and Dublin; Iceland, Ireland and Corsica.

The film delves into the experiences of Finnish youth activists from the 1970s who were part of Marxist-Leninist organizations, often referred to as “taistolaiset.” It reflects on their ideological fervor, the disillusionment that followed, and the personal transformations they underwent as they matured.

In early 1970s, the graphic designer Tuulikki Pietilä had seen enough of stative visual art and purchased a film camera from Japan. She filmed the games and chores of the artist couple in their beloved hideout, the island of Klovharun.

A personal film essay on the disappearance of the uncle of the director and the writer of the film, during the Continuation War between Finland and Soviet Union. This tragedy developed into a decades long struggle to forget and to remember, with strange twists of fate and even more stranger imagination in the minds of the members of the affected family

Lost and Found depicts a life of a man with no homeland. 10 years ago Konstantin G fled the persecutions of homosexuals from Moscow to Finland. He lives now in Helsinki, living the different roles of his life: he is a nurse and a friend of the aged, a bright personality of the nightlife in Helsinki's gay-world, a solitary figure of the Russian community and the Orthodox Church, and as well as an intensive cabaret performer. Film is a mosaic-like journey to the loves and lives of Konstantin, where poems, songs and encounters form a picture of one passionate and unusual life. In the roles of his own life Konstantin Gontcharev.

Sandarmohin suru is a documentary film on 12 Finns who lost their relatives in The Great Purge in Soviet Carelia. Each of them found out about the fate of their family members almost 100 years later.