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F I N N I S H D O C U M E N T A R Y F I L M S 2 0 0 7( F E A T U R E L E N G T H )

Contents

Feature Length DocumentariesAsylum 4BAM – Railroad to Nowhere 6Catch, The 8Eden Pastora – Commandant “Zero” 10Four Journeys on the River 12Lone Star Hotel 14Raattama (working title) 16Sami, The 18Sonic Mirror 20Winterreise 22

Documentaries (length between 36–60 minutes)Big Boy 26Fourth Chair, The 28Holy Father 30Jaruzelski – A General’s Purgatory 32More Mushrooms, Spashiba! 34No Man Is an Island 36On the Doorsteps of Europe 38Pests, The 40Purge, The 42Sandaali (working title) 44Smoking Room, The 46Sounds Like Suomi 48This Land Was Not My Land 50Tobacco Girls 52Well Made Life 54Your Support 56

Short Documentaries (length 35 minutes or less)Keidas 60Loggers, The 62Magic Night 64Number – Life on a Scale from 0 to 10 66Punishment 68Skiers, The 70South Indian Thali 72Sõprus – Дружба (Friendship) 74

Contacts 76

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Asylum[ T u r v a p a i k k a ]

2006 | Digibeta | 16:9 | Stereo | ~88’

Director, script: Jenni LinkoCinematography: Tuomo Hutri, Jani KumpulainenEditing: Anne LakanenSound design: Pertti VenetjokiMusic: David SchweitzerProducer: Liisa AkimofProduction company: Production HouseProduction support: The Finnish Film Foundation, AVEKFinancing TV company: YLE TV1

220 minors arrived in Finland seeking asylum in 2005 unaccompanied by a parent. Asylum fol-lows three youngsters as they begin their new life in Finland in a home for people at the biggest reception centre in the Finnish countryside.

Jenni LinkoJenni Linko was born in 1975 in Helsinki. She is a graduate of the National Film and Television School in the UK. She has made numerous short documentaries, many of which are about youth issues. Her films include North Beats South (awarded 1st prize at the Nordisk barne-tv festival in Ebeltoft, 2005), You Are the Only One

Who Knows and Smell.

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BAM – Railroad to Nowhere[ B A M ]

2007 | Digibeta | 16:9 | Stereo | 80’ and 52’ versions

Director, script: Jouni HiltunenCinematography: Tahvo HirvonenEditing: Anne LakanenSound design: Ivo FeltMusic: Pessi LevantoProducer: Kaarle AhoProduction company: Making MoviesCo-producer: Allfilms (Estonia)Production support: The Finnish Film Foundation, NFTF, Estonian Film Foundation, MEDIA+Financing TV companies: YLE2, SVT, TSR, DR, ETVInternational sales: First Hand Films

BAM or Baikal – Amur Magistral was Leonid Brezhnev’s plan to build more than 3500 km of railroad and 200 stations and communities in five years in Southern Siberia. The work was to be done mainly by Komsomol elite youths. BAM – Railroad to Nowhere is a documentary about the pioneering spirit, about people who built the future with their own hands and how today they are trying to hold on to it even if the rest of the world would like to forget them.

Jouni HiltunenJouni Hiltunen (b. 1964) is a documentary film director from Helsinki. He has worked in various sectors of the film industry since 1990 and has directed over 15 documentary films. His documentary film about three Russian prisoners for life, Blatnoi Mir (2001), has been awarded at both Finnish and international festivals.

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Taru MäkeläTaru Mäkelä (born 1959) is a film director who graduated from the University of Art and Design Helsinki as a Master of Arts. She has directed historical documentaries, such as David – Stories of Honour and Shame (Daavid – tarinoita

kunniasta ja häpeästä, 1997), Lotat (1995) and Viipurin poika (1993). She was awarded a Finland Prize for her fictional film Little Sister (Pikkusisar, 1999). She has also directed musicals, television series and movies, theatrical performances and radio plays.

The Catch[ S a a l i s ]

2006 | Digibeta, Beta SP | 16:9 | Stereo | 100’

Director, script: Taru MäkeläCinematography: Jouko SeppäläEditing: Tuuli KuittinenSound design: Olli HuhtanenMusic: Jukka SiikavireProducer: Misha Jaari, Ulla SimonenExecutive producer: Lasse SaarinenProduction company: KinotarProduction support: The Finnish Film Foundation, AVEKFinancing TV company: YLE TV2 Documentaries

The Catch is a documentary film that chronicles the history of an entrepreneurial Finnish family. It is a story about people with a dream and the cost of reaching that dream. The Catch is also a unique glimpse of a family that has been in involved in creating the Finnish film industry and film culture. The Catch is fact and fable about the Mäkeläs, written and directed by Taru Mäkelä.

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Alvaro PardoAlvaro Pardo (born 1952 in Spain) is a documentary director and producer, who has his own production company, Filmitakomo Oy, in Helsinki. His latest directions include the documentary films Kings of Recycling (Kierrätyksen kuninkaat, 2001) and The Chinese Peanut Man (Kiinalainen pähkinämies, 2002).

Eden Pastora – Commandant “Zero”[ E d e n P a s t o r a – K o m e n t a j a “ N o l l a ” ]

2006 | Digital Betacam | 16:9 | Stereo | 75’

Director, script: Alvaro PardoCinematography: Frank Pineda, Jan Van BilsenEditing: Anne LakanenSound design: Evelio Gay, Janne JankeriMusic: Alain MichelProducer: Alvaro PardoProduction company: Filmitakomo OyProduction support: The Finnish Film Foundation, AVEKFinancing TV companies: YLE TV2, Télevision Suisse Romande TSR

The legendary Nicaraguan guerilla commandant Edén Pastora, hero to some, traitor to others, makes a comeback to the political arena after 15 years of silence by being nominated as a candi-date for the mayor of Managua as his first step in running for the presidency of Nicaragua.

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Kari SoveriKari Soveri has made 54 documentaries since 1980, and his films have been sold to almost 70 countries. The awards he has received include the Prix Italia, Wildscreen and Albers.Ville SuhonenVille Suhonen (b. 1964) is a film and culture critic as well as a freelance film director. He has directed over 30 films and written and co-directed the box office hit Tommy and the Wildcat (Poika ja ilves, 1998).

Four Journeys on the River[ N e l j ä m a t k a a V a n t a a n j o e l l a ]

2007 | Digibeta | 16:9 | Mono / Stereo | ~70’

Director: Kari Soveri, Ville SuhonenScript: Ville SuhonenCinematography: Kari Soveri, Niko SoveriEditing, sound design: Kari SoveriProducer: Kari SoveriProduction company: Soveri Wildlife Films OyProduction support: The Finnish Film Foundation, Foundation of Raija and Ossi TuuliainenFinancing TV companies: TV1, ARTEInternational sales: YLE Export, ARTE

This documentary film tells of the journey of the 99 kilometre long river Vantaa from its source down to the Gulf of Finland, of the river’s nature in different seasons and the relationship of man to the river and its environment. The river is full of baffling contrasts. It flows through Finland’s most urban area inhabited by 20% of the population. The everyday life of man and the wonders of the nature encounter each other continuously. The river is a challenge for peaceful co-existence. For most people, it is invisible and insignificant, until it invades their territory. And yet man influ-ences the life of the river all the time. The battle against pollution seems endless.

It is also an aesthetic experience; the sounds, the light, the colours, the flora and the fauna change over the seasons. The cultural landscape changes into cultivated forest, thicket into pri-meval forest, countryside into village, village into town, at times it swells and floods beyond its boundaries, at times the river dries up into a meagre brook.

Something small grows into something large, tiny brooks unite to create a huge entity.

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Ari MatikainenAri Matikainen was born in 1970 in Eno, North Karelia. After having made music, he began to study documentary direction at the University of Art and Design Helsinki in 1999.His previous works include Zavtra (Zavtra – huomenna), 2005.

Lone Star Hotel[ Y h d e n t ä h d e n h o t e l l i ]

2007 | 35mm / Digibeta | 16:9 | Stereo | 70’

Director, script: Ari MatikainenCinematography: Hannu-Pekka VitikainenEditing: Aleksi RaijMusic: Jorma Kääriäinen, AgentsProducers: Arto Halonen, Jari AlénProduction company: Art Films production AFP OyProduction support: The Finnish Film FoundationFinancing TV company: YLE TV1

Lone Star Hotel is a touching journey into the mental landscape of a Finnish man who ponders his future, his life and the realisation of his dreams. The lead vocalist of the band Agents, Jorma Kääriäinen, is starring in this documentary film about him and his life.

Jorma Kääriäinen and Agents are one of the biggest crowd-pullers in Finnish dance halls. Wherever the band plays, the place is always packed. Agents have established their position in Finnish music and their albums, with Jorma singing the lead vocals, sell gold without exception. Like many musicians, Jorma lives on the road, on a constant journey toward his dream. Going from one hotel to another is lonely, giving this father of three plenty of time to muse over his life and his stardom.

Even with its deep themes and the ruggedness of both the Finnish landscape and the man liv-ing in it, the film is still warm, benevolent, humorous and entertaining, just like Jorma. And of course it is full of great, catchy music.

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Raattama is a story about a village far in the North, the meeting of old and new cultures and peo-ple’s everyday lives in a rapidly changing Finland in the EU. It is a film about the village struggling in the face of a big change.

Raattama is an exceptionally challenging long documentary film by a group of eight directors. Their co-operation has meant countless meetings, brainstorms and web discussions. A confiden-tial relationship with the villagers and the fruitful year-long collaboration produced a touching story about a village far in the North. The directors were young people working in the film indus-try or studying film, and Raattama was the first fruit of their shared labour. It has also encour-aged the whole team to take on new challenges.

Raattama (working title)2007 | Digibeta | 16:9 | Stereo | 120’

Directors, script: Timo Haanpää, Antti Haase, Anna Häkkinen, Max Juntunen, Tiina Laasonen, Mikko Manninen, Sari Saarinen, Ulla VilponenCinematography: Janne Niskala, Timo YlifranttiEditing: Jukka Nykänen, Timo PeltolaSound design: Pekka KarjalainenMusic: Timo PeltolaProducers: Juha Iisak Koivisto, Outi RousuProduction company: Unilumi OyProduction support: AVEKFinancing TV company: YLE TV 2

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Anastasia LapsuiBorn in the Yamal Peninsula, Western Siberia, in 1944. Has been a radio journalist in Salekhard for 26 years, working on a Nenets language program. Has directed since 1990.Markku LehmuskallioBorn in Rauma in 1938. Graduated as forest technician in 1963. Worked in films professionally since 1969.

The Sami [ S a a m e l a i n e n ]

Directors: Anastasia Lapsui &Markku LehmuskallioCinematography: Johannes LehmuskallioEditing: Anastasia Lapsui, Markku LehmuskallioProducer: Liisa Holmberg Production company: Giron Filmi OyProduction support: The Finnish Film Foundation, AVEK Financing TV company: YLE TV2 Documentaries

The Sami are a people spread over 4 different countries: Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia. They have no state of their own. The Sami are Europe’s last aboriginal people and they speak 9 different languages. They have lived off the land and nature has provided for them.

But yesterday is not today. People have left their homes and followed work into the big cities. This film takes a look at the identity of these people. Has the change of life-style and surround-ings changed the Sami way of looking at the world? In the film people try to answer the questions: Who am I?

2006 | 35mm | 16:9 | Dolby SR | 82’

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Sonic Mirror

Mika KaurismäkiMika Kaurismäki’s first film The Liar (Valehtelija, 1980) marked the beginning of cinema for the Kaurismäki brothers and started a new era in Finnish cinema. Mika has since directed films all around the world with an international crew and cast. His work in-cludes, for example, the fictional films The Worthless (Arvottomat, 1982), Rosso (1985), Helsinki Napoli All Night Long (1987), Amazon (1990), Zombie and the Ghost Train (Zombie ja kummitusjuna, 1991), LA Without a Map (1998), Honey Baby (2004) and three documen-taries shot in Brazil: Tigrero – A Film That Was Never Made (1994, with Sam Fuller and Jim Jarmusch), Sound of Brazil (Moro no Brasil, 2002) and Brasileirinho (2005).

2006 | 35mm / HD and Digibeta | 1:1,66 | Dolby SR and 5.1 | 88’

Director: Mika KaurismäkiScript: Mika Kaurismäki, Marco Forster, Uwe DreschCinematography: Jacques CheuicheEditing: Oli WeissSound design: Uwe DreschMusic: Billy Cobham etc.Producers: Mika Kaurismäki, Marco Forster, Uwe DreschProduction companies: Marianna Films, Marco Forster Productions, Uwe Dresch Film, Doc ProductionsProduction support: The Finnish Film Foundation, ESEK, NRW, BAKFinancing TV companies:

YLE Co-productions, Swiss TV – DRS InternationalInternational sales: Wide Management

Sonic Mirror is a musical documentary film presenting the journey of the legendary drummer Billy Cobham into several different musical cultures.

Sonic Mirror shows the sometimes contradictory and sometimes surprising expectations and reactions from audiences. The film is shot in Finland, Switzerland, USA, Brazil etc.

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Winterreise[ T a l v i n e n m a t k a ]

2007 | 35mm / Digibeta | 1:1,85 / 16:9 | Dolby Surround 5.1 | 58’ and 75’ versions

Director, script: Visa Koiso-KanttilaCinematography: Marita HällforsEditing: Tuula MehtonenSound design: Pietari KoskinenMusic: Outi ParkkilaProducer: Iiris HärmäProduction company: Guerilla Films Ltd.Production support: The Finnish Film Foundation, AVEK, ESEK, The Nordic Film & TV FundFinancing TV companies: YLE TV1, ARTE, SVT

Winterreise is a film about singing and a young man searching for himself and his own voice.A student meets a master – Winterreise is a portrayal of dialogue between generations and

how life experiences, knowledge and skills are passed on from one generation to another. It is a film about conquering one’s fears and finding one’s own resources – about growing up.

The main character in the film, Kalle Koiso-Kanttila, graduates as a tenor from a German school of music, hoping to become an opera soloist. In fierce competition, only hard work and good self-esteem can help him reach his goal.

But self-confidence is lost; the main character is plagued by a constant feeling of inadequacy and worthlessness that hinders his career and his life. Kalle’s big challenge is to overcome his mental obstacles and become free – to find his own voice.

Visa Koiso-KanttilaVisa Koiso-Kanttila was born in 1970. He graduated from The Turku School of Art and Media in 1996 and studied documentary film at The New School University and Film / Video Art in New York. He founded his own production company, Guerilla Films Ltd., in 1999. He is also a co-member of Elephant Films – The Finn-ish directors’ group. Visa Koiso-Kanttila’s latest film was Father to Son (Isältä pojalle, 2004) – The Best Nordisk Documentary Film in 2004, Nordisk Panorama.

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F I N N I S H D O C U M E N T A R Y F I L M S 2 0 0 7( L E N G T H B E T W E E N 3 6 – 6 0 M I N U T E S )

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Mia HalmeMia Halme (born in 1968) is a docu-mentary director. Her previous films are Family of One (Yhden hengen perhe, 2005), Mother Brave (Omalla vastuulla, 2002), Carnival Spirit – Helsinki in the

Year 2000 (Halki kaupungin – Helsinki

vuonna 2000, 2002), Relatively Speaking (Sukulaisia, 2001) and Erotic Vivica (1999).

Big Boy[ I s o p o i k a ]

2007 | Digibeta | 16:9 | Stereo | ~40’

Director, script: Mia HalmeCinematography: Mia Halme, Aleksi SalmenperäEditing: Saara SaarelaSound design: Helsingin Elokuva-äänitys Oy / Mikko MäkeläMusic: Ville A. TanttuProducer: Sonja LindénProduction company: Avanton Productions OyProduction support: The Finnish Film FoundationFinancing TV company: YLE Co-productions

“Is a schoolboy still allowed to come to your lap?” the boy asks when the last day of the summer turns to night.

This 7-year-old boy feels tiny and very big at the same time. He becomes a big brother, learns to read and lie. His heart beats for a girl for the first time, and he promises to swear less if his friends promise it, too!

How great it is to survive on your own! But how does it feel when you don’t know if you are big or small?

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The Fourth Chair[ N e l j ä s t u o l i ]

2006 | Digibeta | 16:9 Anamorphic | Stereo | 52’

Director, script: Charlotte AirasCinematography: Timo Peltonen Editing: Kimmo KohtamäkiProducer: Kaarle AhoProduction company:

Making Movies OyProduction support: AVEK, Det Nordiske Samarbeidsfondet, Media+Financing TV companies: YLE TV2, FST, Arte, TSR Switzerland, NRK Norway, ETV Estonia, LRT Lithuania

The Fourth Chair is a documentary about negotiations and diplomacy. It is a documentary about the fears and emotions of three men trying to make peace in the Balkans.

By March 1999, it seemed as if the world was facing a very serious conflict in Kosovo – conflict that in the worst scenario could turn into a third world war.

As a last ultimatum Nato began bombing Serbia. One last try to reconcile the antagonists through diplomacy was made. On the initiative of the superpowers a delegation was appointed. The task was to find a strategy such that Milosevic would surrender. The delegation consisted of Martti Ahtisaari, President of Finland, Viktor Chernomyrdin, personal envoy of the Russian presi-dent, and Strobe Talbott, US deputy of State.

The Troika gathered four times in May 1999 and by June 3rd Milosevic signed the proposal. The meetings with the Troika and the final meeting with Milosevic will form the spine of our nar-ration told by Ahtisaari, Talbott and Chernomyrdin.

Charlotte AirasCharlotte Airas has twenty years of experience in filmmaking and journalism in Finland and France.

Her documentaries have been broadcasted in all of the Nordic countries.

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Holy Father[ I s ä m e i d ä n ]

2006 | Digibeta / DVD | 16:9 | Stereo | 55’

Director, script: Anne LaurilaCinematography: Janne NiskalaEditing: Tuuli KuittinenSound design: Kimmo VänttinenMusic: Niskala, Rajala, TakkunenProducer: Anne LaurilaProduction company: Vaski FilmiProduction support: AVEK, RAYFinancing TV company: YLE TV2 Documentaries

“I want to drink all the time,” says 55-year-old Markku, an alcoholic from Kemijärvi. Holy Father, a documentary film, is a fragile depiction of an alcoholic’s family life, and the relationship between father and daughter.

In her debut documentary film, director Anne Laurila has documented the ups and downs of her father’s life for nearly two years. Constant drinking and imprisonment for drunk driving have complicated family members’ lives, leading Markku to move in under his daughter’s roof. Renovating Anne’s house and time spent together with her give meaning to Markku’s sober days – however, conflicts are not avoided.

Holy Father the documentary film shows some respect for a sensitive issue; it shows how an alcoholic has still got some human dignity in Lapland. The documentary film also provides some hope – after all those empty promises love and life conquer, even if it is just for a moment.

Anne LaurilaAnne Laurila (born in 1978) is a director and producer of Vaski Filmi, an independent documentary film production company. She is currently studying at the University of Oulu on the Master’s in Media Production program (METKA). She graduated from the Kemi-Tornio Polytechnic in 2002. Holy Father is her debut professional documentary film.

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Martti PuukkoMartti Puukko (b. 1957) studied the Polish language and literature. He is a journalist, translator of Polish literature and a writer. His films include Lech Walesa! (2003), Andrzej

Wajda – Conductor of Shadows (Andrzej Wajda

– Varjojen kapellimestari, 1995) and The Land of

My Childhood Is No More (1994, co-directed with Andrzej Wajda and Tadeusz Konwicki).

Jaruzelski – A General’s Purgatory[ K e n r a a l i n k i i r a s t u l i ]

2006 | Digibeta / Beta SP / DVD | 16:9 | Stereo | 46’50’’

Director, script: Martti PuukkoCinematography: Timo PeltonenEditing: Samu KuukkaSound design: Martti TurunenMusic: Samu and Ville KuukkaProducer: Pertti VeijalainenProduction company: Illume Ltd.Production support: The Finnish Film Foundation, Developed and Distributed with the support form MEDIA PLUS programmeFinancing TV companies: YLE TV2, LTV, RTBF, ETV, HRT, LRT

“I was not able to sleep for several days and nights,” says the former communist leader of Poland, Wojciech Jaruzelski, as he tells of his decision to proclaim marshal law in Poland 1981.

Jaruzelski – A General’s Purgatory returns to the dramatic phases of recent Polish history. General Jaruzelski is remembered for his big black spectacles and placing Poland under marshal law. The documentary charts the story – from the son of a noble family, moving to the lines of the communist troops, and later to communist leader and president. He is one of the key figures in the dramatic political change that took place in Eastern Europe.

The film deals with a little known period of history, when Jews were expelled from Poland in 1968 and Jaruzelski was the deputy defence minister. In the1970’s, violent riots took place in the Polish coastal town of Gdansk – the army was under the command of General Jaruzelski when workers staging a protest were fired upon, killing 44 people. Jaruzelski has now been tried for this over the course of ten years in Warsaw, with 3000 witnesses listening. The 82-year-old gen-eral is not likely to ever see the end of the process.

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Ismo TuormaaIsmo Tuormaa has made television programmes and written about nature for over 30 years. He started making documentaries in the 1990’s, including Aliens – Stowaways of the Deep (Aliens

– vedenalaiset muukalaiset, 1999), which was about alien sea organisms. In his documentaries and television programmes, Tuormaa aims to portray both people and nature, not forgetting humour – especially black humour.

More Mushrooms, Spashiba!2006 | Digibeta | 16:9 | Stereo | 53’

Director, script: Ismo TuormaaCinematography: Juha Taskinen, Jan HenrikssonEditing: Raimo RaitahilaSound design: Raimo Raitahila, Ismo TuormaaMusic: Jan Andersson, Perttu HietanenProducer: Ismo TuormaaProduction company: Tekstivirta KyProduction support: The Finnish Film Foundation, AVEK, Regional Council of North Carelia, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, Osek OyFinancing TV company: YLE TV2 Documentaries

More Mushrooms, Spashiba! is a documentary about Russian families coming every year to Fin-land, Northern Karelia, to pick valuable mushrooms in order to sell them to the Italians. The story is told by following two families: the Plonkujevas in the village of Rybutskalitsa in Aunus and the Djominas in the municipality of Värtsilä. When describing mushroom picking, nature is also one of the protagonists – it’s not just about the mushrooms but also the year’s cycle, the geese coming in the spring, the rain and the river Aunus in the middle of everyday life.

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Sonja LindénSonja Lindén (born in Helsinki, Finland, 1969) graduated from the Helsinki School of Economics and Business Administration in 1996. She began her studies at The School of Motion Picture, Television and Production Design at the University of Art and Design in 1998, where she studied both directing and producing for documentary film. She has worked as a producer, director and production manager. Her own directions include Breathing (Henkäys, 2002) and Steps on the Yoga Path (Askelia joogatiellä, 2000).

No Man Is an Island[ E i k u k a a n o l e s a a r i ]

2006 | Digibeta | 16:9 | Stereo | 40’18’’

Director, script: Sonja LindénCinematography: Peter FlinckenbergEditing: Helena ÖstSound design: Jyrki RahkonenProducer: Sonja LindénProduction company: Screenday FilmsProduction support: AVEKFinancing TV company: YLE Co-productions

A man lives alone on his island. He keeps in contact with his sick wife every day by phone but shares his everyday life with a cat. His seasonal activities are tinged with his quirky humour and philosophy of life and also music in its many forms. The preparations for his final departure take their time too.

This film is about loneliness, love and letting go.

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Kai SalminenKai Salminen is director, producer and screenplay writer and founding member of Epidem Ltd and producer of a great number of documentaries.Zsuzsa BöszörményiZsuzsa Böszörményi is film director, producer and screenplay writer and managing director of BGB Film, Hungary. She has directed several prize winning documentaries and feature films. She is member of the European Film Academy.

On the Doorsteps of Europe[ P i t k ä t j ä ä h y v ä i s e t ]

2006 | Digibeta | 16:9 | Stereo | 52’

Directors, script: Kai Salminen, Zsuzsa BöszörmenyiCinematography: Balázs DobócziEditing: Gabriella KonczSound design: Gergely CsengeriProducer: Mikael WahlforsProduction company: EpidemCo-producer: BGB Film HungaryProduction support: The Finnish Film FoundationFinancing TV company: YLE

This documentary tells the story of a divided village on the eastern border of Europe. As a result of the second world war, a wall was erected in the middle of the village to signify the new border between the Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia, thus dividing the inhabitants. Sixty years later a border crossing was opened and the new brave Europe had arrived at the village of Szelmenc.

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Katja Lautamatti & Mina LaamoThe directors Katja Lautamatti and Mina Laamo are MA-students at the Film Department of the University of Industrial Arts in Helsinki.

The Pests[ T u h o l a i s i a ]

2007 | Video | 16:9 | 50’

Directors, script: Katja Lautamatti, Mina LaamoCinematography: Tuomo HutriEditing: Mika TaanilaSound design: Kyösti VäntänenProducer: Auli MantilaProduction company: DO Films OyProduction support: The Finnish Film Foundation, AVEK Financing TV company: YLE TV1

The Pests is a documentary film about us, the pests and our need for order. A human being is a creature that organizes. Creating order is our way of insuring the continuity of life. A pest how-ever – be it a silverfish, a cockroach or a pharaoh ant – does not follow this human order. They do not respect the human domicile; they invade our homes whether we like it or not. The Pests draws a portrait of the human being, our tolerance and the order of things.

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Erkko LyytinenDirector and cinematographer Erkko Lyytinen (born in 1973) has a Master of Arts degree from the School of Motion Picture, Television and Production Design at UIAH Helsinki. His previous documentaries are The North Star (Kainuun tähti, 2004), which won the main prize at Visions du Réel in Nyon 2005, and The Borderland Bachelors (Rajaseudun poikamiehet, 2004), which represented Finland for the Prix Italia.

The Purge[ P u h d i s t u s ]

2007 | Digibeta, Beta SP | 16:9 | Stereo | 58’

Director, script: Erkko LyytinenCinematography: Jarkko T. Laine, Marita Hällfors, Jyri HakalaEditing: Tuomo Leino, Erkko LyytinenSound design: Juha HakanenMusic: Timo HietalaProducer: Cilla WerningExecutive producer: Lasse SaarinenProduction company: Kinotar OyProduction support: The Finnish Film Foundation, AVEK, University of JoensuuFinancing TV company: Yle TV2 Documentaries

The mistrust between the Romanies and the majority of the population escalated dramatically in the Finnish village of Pankakoski in 1956. The men of the village joined forces to drive the Roma-nies out. The film uses this little known historical event as a starting point. The film shows how the storytelling and the legends carry the “true Romani way” – and the sense of not belonging – over to the next generation.

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Annika NykänenDirector Annika Nykänen (born 1976 in Oulu) graduated as a Bachelor of Media in the spring of 2002, with film directing and scriptwriting as her majors. She has written and directed, among others, the documentary film Karte on Irwin – Irwin on Karte (2000/2001).

Sandaali (working title)2007 | Digibeta | 16:9 | Stereo | 58’

Director, script: Annika NykänenCinematography: Vesa TaipaleenmäkiEditing: Mika RonkainenSound design: Esa NissiProducer: Kimmo PaananenProduction company: Klaffi ProductionsProduction support: The Finnish Film Foundation, AVEK, Church Media FoundationFinancing TV company: YLE TV1

A documentary film about the collision of two worlds, old and new. A story about the ideas of an awakening youth culture and the stern god of a sect in Oulu, both of which demand change by any means necessary.

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Jukka KärkkäinenBefore making this film, director Jukka Kärkkäinen (born 1972) operated a circular saw at a sawmill and worked as a storeman with Veikko Laine and Finnair Cargo. The Smoking Room is his third documentary after Zetor – Vappaana syntynyt and Jäähyväiset.

The Smoking Room[ T u p a k k a h u o n e ]

Director: Jukka KärkkäinenScript: Jukka Kärkkäinen, Jetta HuttunenCinematography: Jarkko T. Laine F.S.C., Jani Kumpulainen F.S.C.Editing: Mervi Junkkonen, Timo PeltolaSound design: Janne LaineMusic: Jonas BohlinProducer: Joonas BerghällProduction company: Oktober OyCo-producer: Antonio Russo Merenda / Hysteria Film ABProduction support: The Finnish Film Foundation, AVEK, NFTF, Swedish Film InstituteFinancing TV companies: YLE TV2 Documentaries, SVT DokumentärfilmsInternational sales: Deckert Distribution GmbH

2006 | Digibeta | 16:9 Anamorphic | Stereo | 58’

The documentary film The Smoking Room tells a story about Finland and the Finns at the beginning of the 21st century through various smoking rooms. The people sitting in smoking rooms, their lives and stories offer glimpses of life in contemporary Finland.

The film is a collage of the realities in five smoking rooms. We visit the smoking rooms of a hos-pital, a factory, a train, a public transport company and a disabled war veterans’ nursing home.

The film follows people spending time in the smoking rooms, alone and together. A smoking room is a place where they pause, focus and think. While smoking, they face themselves and others.

The world in a smoking room is its own reality. The outside world, society and its events enter the room filtered, as if through smoke.

We follow the arc of human life. We see the joys and sorrows of working life, the firings and the retirements. In the end, we face the final destination of human life in a nursing home.

The Smoking Room is a freeze-frame of a present moment.

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Rostislav AaltoRostislav Aalto (born in Moscow, 1971) has worked as photographer, editor and director in numerous productions. Since 1997 he has led a private enterprise, Zen Media, which produces documentaries and offers editing services for other film companies.

Aalto’s previous feature length documentary film Cleaning Up! (2002) has been shown at over 20 festivals around the world and won several prizes in the USA, e.g. at the Newport International Film Festival (Best Documentary).

Sounds Like Suomi2006 | DVCAM / HDV | 16:9 | Stereo | 56’

Director, script: Rostislav AaltoCinematography: Antti Seppänen, Rostislav AaltoEditing: Antti Seppänen, Sampo Kaarlaa, Rostislav AaltoMusic: Cleaning Women, Olavi Virta, Them Shepherds, Jori Hulkkonen, HuoratronProducer: Rostislav AaltoProduction company: Zen Media / Zen and Trading OyProduction support: The Finnish Film Foundation, ESEKFinancing TV company: YLE TV1

The film follows alternative Finnish bands on their joint tour of China in the autumn of 2005. The protagonists are the tour manager Jani and his “left leg” Pösilö who, despite various problems, manages to guide the tour into the hearts of the Chinese.

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Katariina LillqvistKatariina Lillqvist, one of the most well-known Finnish animation film makers, has also made several documentaries. Her recent works include Thunderdrum (Ukkosrumpu, 2000) about archaic architecture in Finland and Romanytheater (Romaniteatteri, 2004) about Czech Romani refugees.

Her animation series Mire Bala Kale Hin – Tales from

the Endless Roads (Mire Bala Kale Hin – Tarinoita matkan

takaa, 2003) is based on Gypsy fairytales and myths.

This Land Was Not My Land[ E i h ä n t ä m ä m a a m i n u n o m a n i o l l u t ]

Director, script, editing: Katariina LillqvistCinematography: Tahvo HirvonenSound design: Jouko LummeMusic: Hilja GrönforssProducer: Jyrki KaipainenProduction company: Elokuva-osuuskunta Camera CagliostroProduction support: AVEKFinancing TV company: YLE TV2 Documentaries

2007 | 35mm / Digibeta | 16:9 | Dolby surround | 45’

The 500-year history of the Finnish Romanies is hidden in songs. The ballads were secretly hummed in the spinning schools and reformatories of 19th century Finland. They wafted out from behind the walls of Kakola prison and the gates of Hämeenlinna women’s prison, out into market squares and boiler rooms, where they continued to reach new generations of listeners.

One of the last traditional old-style singers is Hilja Grönfors, a self-taught artist who has gath-ered the all-but-forgotten verses of her people. Hilja is fullfilling her singing career bravely: even the most small-scale performance calls a delicate balancing act in a world where a ten-metre velvet skirt is both a stigma and a protective barrier. The traditional costume tells its own story.

In the documentary, Hilja’s memories, songs and everyday life are entwined with black and white photographs by Ismo Hölttö and Mikko Savolainen, and archive footage of Finland in the 1960’s, when racism was the norm and the Romanies lived on the road, in rusty train carriages or temporary shacks made of cardboard boxes and corrugated iron.

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Tarja Mattila Ms Tarja Mattila (b. 1960) has worked as a freelance journalist at the Finnish Broadcasting company.

In her reporting and documentaries, Ms Mattila has concentrated on social issues, her motto being: Hands off the Poor.

Mattila’s previous films include Paluu Peikkometsään (2000) and I Named My Doll Nixon (Nukkeni nimi oli

Nixon, 1994).

Tobacco Girls[ T u p a k k a t y t ö t ]

2006 | Digibeta, Beta SP | 16:9 | Stereo | 56’

Director, script: Tarja MattilaCinematography: Marita Hällfors, Timo Heinänen, Hannu Vitikainen, E.E. Hirvonen, Heikki AholaEditing: Heikki Ahola, Timo PeltolaSound design: Martti TurunenSound recording: Laura KuivalainenMusic: Timo PeltolaProducer: Arto HalonenProduction company: Art Films production AFP OyProduction support: The Finnish Film FoundationFinancing TV company: YLE TV2 DocumentariesPartners: The Finnish Work Envi-ronment Fund, Central Organisa-tion of Finnish Trade Unions SAK, Finnish Food Workers’ Union SEL

The documentary film Tobacco Girls is a story of working class women that were made redundant from the Amer tobacco company in the spring of 2004. It describes the last days in the factory and what kinds of problems women face in trying to find new jobs. The film follows the lives of the few women made redundant over a year and especially how this affects them and the kinds of problems they have to solve.

Most of these women have been working in the factory for the best part of their working lives and it is difficult to take on a new job. Younger women try to retrain themselves or are looking out for new employment. One of the main characters has a case being heard in a labour court because associates have afflicted her. The other one finds a solution by undertaking to be her mother’s carer.

The theme developed shows how globalization has changed the thinking in manufacturing. Factories are disbanded so that the production can be removed to an area where labour costs are lower, and like at Amer, to enhance the company image. Older workers become unemployed.

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Noora MännistöNoora Männistö (born in 1946) is a theatre and film director. She wrote and directed fictional children’s films for television from 1974 to1995. Since then, she has concentrated on documentary films. The latest long documentary films by Männistö include Good as Wood (Halonvoimaa, 2004, together with Mika Haavisto) and The House

of Ultimate Time (Rajattoman ajan talo, 2001).

Well Made Life[ H y v i n t e h t y e l ä m ä ]

2007 | DVCAM | 16:9 | Stereo | 53’

Director, script: Noora MännistöCinematography: Mika HaavistoEditing: Terttu RantaSound design: Petri HagnerMusic: Jami WestergårdProducer: Noora MännistöProduction company: Musafilmi KyProduction support: AVEK, Ministry of EnvironmentFinancing TV company: YLE TV2 Documentaries

This documentary film explores a person’s relationship with his work and his environment dur-ing the birth, prosperity and collapse of the blue-collar industry in the town of Pori, in the resi-dential areas traditionally inhabited by the working-class. The individuals representing each of the three phases all live in the present time, but every one of them also carries with them their childhood backgrounds, values and attitudes.

Childhood experiences remain with us, strong and firm. They influence our values, choices and actions throughout our lives. We are not always so conscious of them, but as time flies by, the memories give birth to overwhelming emotions and atmospheres.

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Risto HuruRisto Huru (born in 1976) graduated from the Kemi-Tornio Polytechnic in 2006. Your Support is his debut professional documentary film.

Your Support[ K a n n a t u s t a e t s i m ä s s ä ]

2006 | Digibeta / DVD | 16:9 | Stereo | 58’

Director, script, editing: Risto HuruCinematography: Vesa TaipaleenmäkiProducer: Anne LaurilaProduction company: Vaski FilmiProduction support: AVEK, The Other FinlandFinancing TV company: YLE TV2 Documentaries

The documentary film Your Support takes viewers inside farmhouses and out to the yards of Lap-land. Risto Huru’s debut professional film shows how the young members of the Finnish Centre Party search for financial support during the summer. Looking for support is hard work and is not free from hardship. The reception given is not always welcoming.

The documentary film shows the warm hospitality of the local people and makes no attempt to hide political disagreements either. It is essential to possess good social skills and sensitivity to sense the atmosphere when fishing for donations from farmers. Summer opens up the collectors’ eyes and helps them make their own decisions about the future.

Your Support offers a rare chance to visit homes, which still open their door to a stranger. In Lapland people matter and there is always time for a chat.

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F I N N I S H D O C U M E N T A R Y F I L M S 2 0 0 7( L E N G T H 3 5 M I N U T E S O R L E S S )

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PV LehtinenPV Lehtinen was born and lives in Helsinki. He graduated as a director from the School of Motion Picture, Television and Production Design at the University of Art and Design Helsinki. His previous water-themed films include The Diver (Hyppääjä, 2000) and The Crawl (Krooli, 2004), which have been awarded at several international festivals.

Keidas2007 | 35mm | 1:1,85 | Dolby Digital | 20’

Director, script, editing: PV LehtinenCinematography: Hannu-Pekka VitikainenSound design: Sakari SalliMusic: BiosphereProducer: PV LehtinenProduction company: CineParadiso OyProduction support: The Finnish Film Foundation, AVEKFinancing TV company: YLE TV1 Co-productions

A meditative journey to an oasis that a bunch of people consider their second home, where they return each summer. These people include a retired policeman, a musician, a professor and a worker. They and many others share the powerful experience of the swimming stadium as a source of vitality. Many have been going there since they were little children.

Keidas continues the director’s visually impressive series of water films. It brings the beautiful, functionalistic swimming stadium, previously seen in many of his films, into the foreground. This film is like a layered portrait of Finland’s first outdoor swimming pool and its regular customers.

About the swimming stadium: It took a long time for the Helsinki swimming stadium to be com-pleted as a site for the Olympics and a popular bathing establishment. The designing work started in the early 1930’s and the building started in 1938 according to the plans by architect Jorma Järvi. The stadium was supposed to be finished for the 1940 Olympics, which had been awarded to Helsinki, but the work was suspended because of the Winter War. The swimming stadium was finally completed for the 1952 Olympics.

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Selma VilhunenSelma Vilhunen (born 1976) studied film at the Arts Academy of the Turku University of Applied Sciences. She has written and directed both fictional films and documentaries.

The Loggers[ J ä t k ä t ]

2006 | Digibeta | 16:9 | Stereo | 18’

Director, script: Selma VilhunenCinematography: Sari AaltonenEditing: Hanna AsuntaSound design: Laura KuivalainenProducer: Kaarle AhoProduction company: Making MoviesProduction support: AVEK (Make It Short Project of AVEK, The Finnish Film Foundation and YLE Co-productions)Financing TV company: YLE TV1

Asko is a man, Myrsky is a horse. In winter, the pair earn their living by logging wood in small forests in the Helsinki metropolitan area. The work is hard and the days are long. The man and the horse have only each other for company. The Loggers is a film about the co-operation between a man and an animal, and about a dying working method meeting the 21st century landscape. First and foremost, it is a tribute to testosterone steaming in the cold of winter.

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Jouni HiltunenJouni Hiltunen (born in 1964) is a documentary film director. He has worked in various fields of the film industry since 1990 and has directed more than 15 documentary films. His documentary film about three Russian prisoners Blatnoi Mir (2001), has been awarded at both Finnish and interna-tional festivals. At the moment, Hiltunen works as a producer-director for Katharsis Films in Helsinki, Finland.

Magic Night[ T a i k a y ö ]

2006 | Digibeta | 16:9 | Dolby stereo | 14’53’’

Director, script, cinematography: Jouni HiltunenEditing: Anne LakanenSound design: Janne JankeriProducer: Jouni HiltunenProduction company: Katharsis Films OyProduction support: The Finnish Film FoundationFinancing TV company: TV1 Uusi kino

Hannes Tiira is completely blind. Every night from the beginning of May to the second week of July, he takes a solitary walk into a bird grove that is split by a straight one-kilometre-long forest path. He counts and classifies the nightly singers in the grove, from the first warbler in spring to the last whistler in July. The birds’ songs make up a concert that Hannes wants to experience every night, over and over again.

He hopes to come across a “magical night” that may occur just once in a summer: “Each sum-mer is blessed with one or two magical nights. Those are the twilight hours between two hot days, when the sound world of the grove intoxicates your mind. That is when nothing feels unlikely: birds, birds, birds!”

“I can sense everything, even the beauty of a landscape, even though I am blind. Every night as I walk in the forest, I ask myself: Is this possible, have I gone to bird men’s heaven?”

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Mika LehtinenMika Lehtinen (born 1966) graduated as a director from the Theatre Academy of Finland in 1995. He has worked as a director in many theatres around Finland, and he is a lecturer in the Department of Lighting and Sound Design at the Theatre Academy. Lehtinen has also worked as a drama consultant to various documentary departments with the Finnish Broadcasting Company, and as an assistant director in several films before his first direction Precious Brother (Arvon veli, 2004), which received an audience award at the Tampere Film Festival in 2005.

Number – Life on a Scale of 0 to 10[ N u m e r o – e l ä m ä a s t e i k o l l a 0 – 1 0 ]

2006 | Digibeta | 16:9 | 17’52’’

Director, script: Mika LehtinenCinematography: Harri Räty, Pentti KeskimäkiEditing: Jani PyylampiSound design: Vesa MeriläinenMusic: Petri NieminenProducer: Jarmo LampelaProduction company: Lasihelmi FilmiProduction support: AVEK, The Finnish Film Foundation (Make It Short Project of AVEK, The Finnish Film Foundation and YLE Co-productions)Financing TV company: YLE TV1 Co-productions

One night, before falling asleep, I started to think about people close to me and the powerful feel-ings that they feel. The feelings seemed strong, overwhelming, all-consuming and in some cases even overpowering. I thought about the world and people in a wider context and that developed into a starting point for Number.

Number – Life on a Scale of 0 to 10 is a sketch and an outline of feelings.Our lives are filled with pure and meaningful moments and periods that consist only of feelings.

In some parts of our lives, we feel that we are alone and in some sense special. We think that there’s no one else in this world as unhappy, lonely, depressed, scared, happy, or in love as we are.

If at that moment we turn our attention inwards, we lose the ability to co-exist and be compas-sionate – thus losing life itself.

The diversity of human feeling is unlimited, and the words we use to describe it are only lame and vague allusions.

- Yrjö Kallinen, 1951

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Timo PeltonenTimo Peltonen is renowned for his delicate cinematography and his vast experience from different fields of art. His previous works as a cinematographer include Life-Saver (Hengenpelastaja, 2004), Henki (2004), Lost and Found (2003), Family Files (2002), and as a director, David (2002) and Omar Elvis (1996).

Punishment [ M i e s j a t u o m i o ]

2007 | Digibeta | 16:9 | Stereo | 30’

Director, script, cinematography: Timo PeltonenEditing: Samu KuukkaProducer: Jouko AaltonenProduction company: Illume Ltd.Production support: The Finnish Film FoundationFinancing TV company: YLE TV1 Co-productions

Punishment tells a story about a man who pushed the norms of chastity in the Finland of the late 1960’s.

Mattijuhani Koponen is a pioneer of Finnish underground and performance art, who had sex-ual intercourse on top of a grand piano and threw the conservative Finland off its rails. The fine line between art and pornography was discussed in several courts of justice. The artist was sen-tenced to one year in prison. One public act in his youth has stigmatised the man and his whole life. The incident turned his life upside down and almost destroyed him. His friends disappeared, and Koponen was almost completely forgotten.

Much of the time and era is culminated in Koponen’s fate. The film is one man’s romantic jour-ney amidst the complex set of values of our recent history, when the idealism of an individual made the powers-that-be nervous. At the same time, it reminds us of similar problems we face today.

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John WebsterJohn Webster (b. 1967) has been making documentary films as an independent director and producer since 1990. His work includes the films Suckers (1993), Don’t Tell Daddy (1995), Losing It (1999), Rooms of Shadow and

Light (2001) and What Comes Around –

See Everything, Feel Everything (Sen edestään löytää, 2004).

The Skiers[ H i i h t ä j ä t ]

2006 | 35mm / Digibeta | 1:2,35 | Dolby Digital | 11’

Director: John WebsterCinematography: Tuomo HutriEditing: Mervi Junkkonen Sound design: Anne TolkkinenProducer: John WebsterProduction company: JW Documentaries OyProduction support: The Finnish Film Foundation (Make It Short Project of AVEK, The Finnish Film Foundation and YLE Co-productions)Financing TV company: YLE TV1

Each year the War Veterans’ Association organises a ski race for both male and female veterans. This year there were 150 contestants, but the numbers are getting smaller. During the course of the three kilometre race we trace the different fates of six men competing in the category for 88 to 92 year-olds. Lauri speaks for all of them when he says: “I’d rather end my days in fresh clean snow than strapped into a hospital bed”.

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Lasse NaukkarinenLasse Naukkarinen (born 1942) is a director and cinema-tographer. The first of his over 30 directions were political (Solidarity / Solidaarisuus 1970), in the 1980’s and 90’s he made documentaries that examined society (No Comments,

1984), then gritty profiles (Dog Trails / Koiranpolkuja 1995) and later artist profiles (Miina! / Miinavaara!, 2003; Artist´s Life / Taiteilijaelämää, 1999). Anni from Paanajärvi (Paanajärven Anni, 2006) is a story about a village in North western Russia, which is saved from drowning into the reservoir of a hydropower plant.

South Indian Thali[ E t e l ä - I n t i a n T h a l i ]

2007 | Digibeta, Betacam SP, DVD | 16:9 | Stereo | 27’

Director, script, cinematography: Lasse NaukkarinenSound design: Heikki InnanenMusic: Carl-Johan HäggmanProducer: Lasse NaukkarinenProduction company: Ilokuva, Naukkarinen & CoProduction support: The Finnish Film FoundationFinancing TV company: YLE TV1 Co-productions

A subjective documentary set in Kerala, South India. The stunning beauty, the potent dose of real-ity and the fascination of traditional dances and rituals are paralleled with the many courses of a Thali meal.

Thali is a popular meal of many different dishes, served in small metal bowls on a round tray. There are six or seven bowls, as there are scenes in the film. The flavours and the spiciness of the dishes vary from mild to mouth-burning. Each little dish has its own name.

Just like rice brings together the alternating flavours on a Thali tray, the film combines the ritual rhythms with the rhythm, pulse and performance of life.

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Anu PennanenAnu Pennanen was born in 1975 in Kirkkonummi, Finland. She is an artist working with urban public space and its relation to cinema and media. Typically, her work occupies a space between documentary and fiction. Anu Pennanen works collaboratively and on-site with people, who in her works are both the mirrors and investigators of the built environment. More information can be found at www.anupennanen.com.

Sõprus – Дружба (Friendship) [ S õ p r u s – Д р у ж б а ( Y s t ä v y y s ) ]

2006 | Digibeta PAL | 16:9 | Dolby stereo | 30’

Director, script, editing: Anu PennanenCinematography: Kasimir LehtoSound design: Anne TolkkinenMusic: Stefan NémethProducer: Sanna KultanenProduction company: Virta ProductionsLine producer: Kaie Ene Rääk / F-SeitseProduction support: The Finnish Film Foundation, AVEKFinancing TV company: YLE

Sõprus – Дружба (Friendship) depicts the urbanization of the cityscape of Tallin, the capital of Estonia, from the perspectives of teenagers who live there. The film draws a parallel between the teenagers’ own development and the recent development of the city. Two groups, Estonian and Russian, separated by language and history, are becoming curious about each other. These is-sues are framed against the backdrop of historically charged city locations and, in contrast with these, the recently opened shopping centre. The teens, who spend a lot of time drifting, occupy and transform these places into the sites of events that differ from what the official purpose of the place would suggest.

The film is based on workshops, texts and discussions with the nine teenagers featured in the film.

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Art Films production AFP OyMerimiehenkatu 10FI-00150 HelsinkiTel. +358 9 4159 3640Fax +358 9 4159 3690info@artfilms.inet.fiwww.artfilmsproduction.com

ARTE Deutscland TV GmbH / ARTE Francewww.arte-tv.com

Avanton Productions OyHarjuviita 16 A 21FI-02110 EspooTel. +358 50 567 1895sonjalinden@yahoo.com

CineParadiso OyHermannin rantatie 20FI-00580 HelsinkiTel. +358 50 582 8634pvlehtinen@kolumbus.fiwww.kolumbus.fi/cineparadiso

Deckert Distribution GmbHwww.deckertdistribution.com

DO Films OyHiihtomäentie 34FI-00800 HelsinkiTel. +358 9 6874 4980Fax +358 9 6874 4981info@dofilms.fiwww.dofilms.fi

Elokuvaosuuskunta Camera CagliostroVellamonkatu 1FI-33100 TampereTel. +358 3 2226 790Mobile +358 41 4344 399jyrki@cameracagliostro.fiwww.cameracagliostro.fi

Contacts

Festival contacts for all titles:The Finnish Film FoundationKanavakatu 12FI-00160 HelsinkiTel. +358 9 6220 300Fax +358 9 6220 3060ses@ses.fiwww.ses.fi

EpidemSepänkatu 15 BFI-00150 HelsinkiTel. +358 9 684 6612Fax +358 9 684 6614mikael.wahlforss@epidemzot.com

Filmitakomo OyMerimiehenkatu 10FI-00150 HelsinkiTel. + 358 9 4159 3620Fax + 358 9 4159 3690Mobile + 358 50 563 7980filmitakomo@luukku.com

First Hand Filmswww.firsthandfilms.com

Giron Filmi OyLapinlahdenkatu 29 A 10FI-00180 HelsinkiTel./Fax +358 9 685 4429

JW Documentaries OyKapteeninkatu 8 F 12FI-00140 HelsinkiTel. +358 500 615 345websters@dlc.fi

Katharsis Films OyPohjoinen Hesperiankatu 37 B 31FI-00260 HelsinkiTel. +358 40 725 7707Fax +358 9 342 2121hiltunen@kaapeli.fi

Kinotar OyVuorikatu 16 A 9FI-00100 HelsinkiTel. +358 9 1351 864Fax +358 9 1357 863kinotar@kinotar.comwww.kinotar.com

Guerilla Films Ltd.Kiuastie 7 BFI-02770 EspooTel. +358 40 506 2675 & +358 9 881 3224Fax +358 9 881 3224gerillafilmi@hotmail.com

Illume Ltd.Palkkatilankatu 7FI-00240 HelsinkiTel./Fax +358 9 1481 489illume@illume.fiwww.illume.fi

Ilokuva, Naukkarinen & CoPalotie 23FI-02760 EspooTel. +358 9 8554860ilokuva@ilokuva.fiwww.ilokuva.fi

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Klaffi ProductionsNahkatehtaankatu 2FI-90100 OuluTel. +358 8 8811 623Fax +358 8 8811 624klaffi@klaffi.comwww.klaffi.com

Lasihelmi FilmiKalliolanrinne 4FI-00510 HelsinkiTel.+358 9 7742 830Fax + 358 9 7742 8350toimisto@lasihelmi.fiwww.lasihelmi.fi

Making Movies OyLinnankatu 7FI-00160 HelsinkiTel. +358 9 6213 828Fax +358 9 6842 7870mamo@mamo.fiwww.mamo.fi

Marianna Films OyPunavuorenkatu 5 A 2FI-00120 HelsinkiTel./Fax +358 9 6221 614office@marfilm.pp.fiwww.mikakaurismaki.com

Musafilmi KyRauhanpuisto 14FI-28120 Pori Tel. +358 40 7177528noora.mannisto@nic.fi

Oktober OySampsantie 40 I 34FI-00610 HelsinkiTel. +358 40 709 3331joonas@octoberfilm.comwww.oktober.fi

Festival contacts for all titles:The Finnish Film FoundationKanavakatu 12FI-00160 HelsinkiTel. +358 9 6220 300Fax +358 9 6220 3060ses@ses.fiwww.ses.fi

Production HouseHöyläämöntie 18 AFI-00380 HelsinkiTel. +358 9 2293 260Fax +358 9 2293 2660info@productionhouse.fiwww.productionhouse.fi

Screenday FilmsHarjuviita 16 A 21FI-02110 EspooTel. +358 50 567 1895sonjalinden@yahoo.com

Soveri Wildlife Films OyLångörintie 4201100 ÖstersundomTel. +358 9 278 9484Fax +358 9 278 9484karisoveri@hotmail.com

Tekstivirta KyHeinikkokuja 1 B01350 VantaaTel. +358 400 705 525, +358 9 8734 258Fax +358 9 873 2779ismo.tuormaa@sci.fi

Unilumi OyLumimetsäTolosentie 100FI-99800 Ivalo Avvilinfo@unilumi.comwww.unilumi.com

Vaski FilmiLiikasentie 35FI-90540 OuluTel. +358 40 5100 660anne.laurila@vaskifilmi.fi

Virta Productions Tallberginkatu 1 D 152FI-00180 HelsinkiTel. +358 41 534 8603, +358 400 595 286 minnalangstrom@yahoo.com, sannakultanen@yahoo.comwww.virtavirta.com

Wide Managementwww.widemanagement.com

YLE Exportwww.yle.fi/export

Zen Media / Zen and Trading OyBengalinpolku 1 J 36FI-00560, HelsinkiMob. +358 41 530 5252rostislav.aalto@mail.comwww.zenmedia.fi

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Front cover: BAM – Railroad to Nowhere by Jouni Hiltunen | Inside cover, front: No Man Is an Island by Sonja Lindén | Inside cover, back: Four Journeys on the River by Kari Soveri & Ville Suhonen | Back cover: Punishment by Timo Peltonen, Magic Night by Jouni Hiltunen, Raattama (working title) by Timo Haanpää, Antti Haase, Anna Häkkinen, Max Juntunen, Tiina Laasonen, Mikko Manninen, Sari Saarinen & Ulla Vilponen, Keidas by PV Lehtinen, This Land Was Not My Land by Katariina Lillqvist, The Catch by Taru Mäkelä, Number – Life on a Scale from 0 to 10 by Mika Lehtinen | Page 3: Four Journeys on the River by Kari Soveri & Ville Suhonen | Page 25: Tobacco Girls by Tarja Mattila | Page 59: Sõprus – Дружба (Friendship) by Anu Pennanen

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