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- On Christmas Eve, a young boy builds a snowman that comes to life and takes him to the North Pole to meet Father Christmas.
- Petri Luukkainen conducts an experiment with his own life. He packs all his things and puts them in storage. At first naked in an empty apartment, he only allows himself to retrieve one item per day.
- One year in the life of a family of reindeer herders in Finnish Lapland. A study of hard work, hard earned leisure, and an intricate bond between man and nature.
- When Bill finally gets a sibling and becomes a big brother to Bolla, he is over the moon. However, as time passes, he and his family notices that something is different with Bolla. She is examined by many specialists and experts, but no one can find a problem. Everyone is devastated until they notice that Bolla herself remains happy.
- American Vagabond is a cinematic feature documentary about gay youth living without a home in the shadows of a promised city. It's a story about a modern Western society in which homosexuality is still so demonized in some communities that some parents are ready to abandon their children over it. One out of every four young people who are coming out to their parents is kicked out of the house. 20 to 40 percent of homeless youth are estimated to belong to sexual minorities in the United States.
- Gorilla is a ten-minute children`s drama about a six-year-old Alli who tries to get into her big sister`s lovely princess room to play with her sister and her friend. The big girls won`t play with Alli but instead call her a gorilla because she is so scruffy. But Alli won`t give up and does everything to get into the big girls` game.
- A documentary plea for social change centering on destitute drunks who disgrace the harbor setting of Helsinki.
- Aa mysterious story of two sisters, Crete and Marija whose mother says she is leaving with her husband in a remote Ogababa. Crete and Marja remain at the home in Ostrobothnia waiting for the funds promised by their mother and her return. When a mysterious walker arrives at the door of the sisters.
- Country boy Oskari travels with his mother to the city. There he meets his superhero. However, all is not quite as seven-year-old Oskari imagined. He is faced with a difficult choice.
- Our modern life is largely designed by engineers. They like to invent and structure things and they are more at ease with figures and natural science than in relations with the opposite sex. Atanas, a Bulgarian computer engineer claims to have hacked love, but can he help lonely and shy engineers find real love and real happiness? As he tries to develop a scientific formula for the perfect relationship, he uses other engineers as his guinea pigs; teaches them his ideas and sends them out to test them in the real world. He guides his subjects with wireless transmitters during their set up meetings with potential candidates: beautiful young women. Are the rules of attraction, sex and love scientific and if they are, do we really want to know them?
- A film about a night watchman who witnesses a tragic event and is forced to discover the reality of his hometown of Turku in the light of day.
- Elokuva vangitsee aikaa ("Cinema captures time") is a two-part documentary about Soviet film. The first part, "Inhottava juttu", ('A Nasty Case'), recounts the new wave of Soviet cinema during the Thaw of the 1950s-1960s, when new filmmakers with new aesthetics emerged: Andrei Tarkovsky, Elem Klimov, Larisa Shepitko and Vasili Shukshin, among others. This short period of freedom is told by the directors themselves. The documentary features film clips and interviews of directors such as Tarkovsky and Aleksei German. The second part of the documentary, "Avautuu laaja meri" ('A Wide Sea Opens') concentrates on the Soviet film during glasnost and perestroika in the 1980s. The filmmakers were now free from censorship. Features interviews and film clips from directors such as Andrei Tarkovsky, Vadim Abdrashitov and Aleksandr Sokurov.
- Friday is disco-day. But everything will not go as planned. The girl you just met disappears when your friends are about to move on. And too much booze adds to regrets and angst in the abandoned suburb.
- An island fortress built by Swedes in 1748 falls to Russia until 1917 when the newly independent Finns turn it into a camp for Red prisoners.
- Photographs of the 1944 bombing of Helsinki are set against modern images of the city's still pockmarked facades.
- A documentary about the jazz drummer, composer and bandleader Edward Vesala (1945-1999), the "lone wolf" of Finnish jazz. The film documents his work with his famous "jazz university", the Sound & Fury ensemble.
- 13-year-old Hara befriends Masa, a boy his own age who needs help with his summer job, selling fish bait in the Helsinki harbour. It turns out Masa's big brother Iiro runs the bait business in a ruthless manner where all that counts is money.