Kari Väänänen Movies

A sort of "Divorce Finnish Style," Mika Kaurismäki's rambunctious comedy, The House of Branching Love , recounts the breakup of a...

Self-taught philosopher Konsta Pylkkänen guides a group of researchers through Finland's Kainuu wilderness in the hopes of having a...

A man fakes his own suicide in order to see how his close ones react.

Detective Karisto releases Auno 'Räpsy' Pirilä from prison, who in turn has to calve his childhood friend Börje from criminal...

A self-loving fictional autobiography of author Kari Hotakainen.

Bad Trip, a biker who has been freshly inducted into a gang, flees from them after stealing one of their bikes.

Documentary on the history of Ryhmäteatteri theatre company.

A lawyer pays a visit to Matti Ojanperä, a bum living under a bridge in the Helsinki harbour, to inform him that he is about to inherit an...

Anna Kelanen is an ex-model, who just has been released from prison. She thinks back on her life, when she was a rather successful model, and on the...

The mechanic Jack tries to get rid of his criminal background.

Everyone knows that Ruben is Jewish, gay, half-French, half-Finnish, an ungrateful son and disappointing lover, a thief who can’t help himself,...

A student film.

After his wife leaves him, a man becomes obsessed getting his family back together by buying an old house.

When a new man appears in Tuula's life, Jorma does not tolerate the idea and begins to yearn back for his ex-wife. They drift into a situation where...

Finnish comedy.

Story of Jari, a misfit and coward who, after hitting his girlfriend escapes to a fish factory in Norway. There he meets Heikki, who works for the...

Anssi Mänttäri’s low-budget movies with their intimate content have become classics. In this black comedy that takes place in...

The Rosvola family – The Robbersons drive around the country in their pirate car robbing bypassing cars of their sweets, extra food and...