Mercy All the Way

After Satan has stolen all of the worlds hot dogs, two agents has to go down in Hell and kill Satan.

Two friends, who are painting graffiti onto a shop window in their home village in central Finland, have ended up kissing. The experimental short film, which juxtaposes events happening in two different times, examines the border between platonic and romantic love.

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.

Hanna teams up with her sister and counterculture friends to create a parody romance on Instagram between herself and young actor Ekku. Hanna starts living a crowd-pleasing love story for the public, only to find herself tangled up in the unresolved past with her “you were never my boyfriend” friend Lasse, who also happens to be the real-life co-writer and cinematographer of Fucking with Nobody. Fiction and auto-fiction crash and melt into each other, as writer-director Hannaleena Hauru plays the lead role of an ever-single film director Hanna.

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.

Kaarina, an unemployed Finnish sawmill worker, travels to work in Argentina after getting fed up with homeland's temporary jobs and short-term relationships. A fictional short film is a personal speech about the global state of the forest industry.

A poetic film based on Samuel Beckett's poem "Comment dire - What Is the Word". A young woman travels to her boyfriend to confess her love.

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

A no-budget metafilm filled with pop cultural references, Metatitanic deconstructs the performative essence of romantic love.