Films with: Kaurismäki, Aki

Ariel

A coal miner takes a road trip looking for a way out of financial despair and criminal trouble. He finds unexpected love instead.

DVD 7293

Havre

Marcel Marx, an old bohemian living in the French harbor city of Le Havre, stands up for a young African refugee when officials begin to pursue the boy for deportation.

DVD 9073

Leningrad Cowboys Total balalaika show /

The Leningrad Cowboys are an American influenced Finnish show-band that likes to parody the clichés of rock stardom, while the Red Army Ensemble was formed to preserve Russian folk music. This event drew 70,000 people, and involved two nations that were at war a half a century ago and then endured a "peaceful coexistence" during the Cold War. What seems an impossible combination of musical styles and tastes becomes a sublime experience, especially when the Red Army musicians pick up their balalaikas to join the Cowboys on Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to heaven".

DVD 4290

Mies vailla menneisyyttä The man without a past /

After a man is beaten and declared dead, he suddenly sits up and walks out of the hospital on his own. Determined to start his life over in a new town and unable to remember his name or anything about his past, he becomes involved with a mother and her sons. Everything seems good until his past comes back to haunt him.

DVD 7966

Ten minutes older.

"With complete creative freedom, the directors bring their own unique interpretation of 'time' to the screen ... [This programme] takes in all human experience: birth, death, love, sex, the drama of the moment, history and ancient myth; and a great variety of locations from the jungles of South America to the streets of New York. Combined together in a feature film, their individual work gains new meangins and presents an intriguing and exciting experience for all filmgoers"--Container.

DVD 4349

Tulitikkutehtaan tyttö Match factory girl /

Iris has a dead-end job in a match factory, lives with her dour and forbidding parents, and her social life is a disaster. Finally she decides that enough is enough and plans her revenge.

DVD 7294

Varjoja paratiisissa Shadows in paradise /

An episode in the life of Nikander, a garbage man, involving the death of a co-worker, an affair and much more.

DVD 7292