Death from the perspective of the attending carers: stylised and tangible. Dying is encircled by life. Sheets are changed, candles are lighted, sheets are changed.
Finnish male poses: by the water, in front of the sauna, in the forest. They just stand there. But one can listen to them. They talk about closed-off feelings. And the desire to open up.
After his coming-out, teenager James is disowned by his parents and lives in the streets of San Francisco – until everything turns out differently. A touching coming-of-age drama.
The Arctic Circle Spirit Ice Queens are Finland’s worst cheerleading team. Coach Miia wants to change this, but the girls have other worries … Winning, losing and coming of age.
A documentary-animation hybrid about a Swiss journalist who was killed in the Croatian War of Independence in 1992 because he had lost his faith in objective reporting.
Melisa moves to Turkey to escape her domineering father. But Granny is already waiting – Daddy, ten times worse … A magnificent black comedy about reaching adulthood.
Is it coincidence that determines which leaf falls from the tree at what point, whether we get cancer, or what we remember? An artful essay about fate, cinema images, and memory.
In an Indian textile factory, people work machines like machines. Machinery surrounds the factory floor.
A farewell to the affluent society: a year without one’s possessions, which are retrieved piece by piece. But what is really important? A sporting self-experiment that doesn’t sermonize.
A portrait in personal memory capers of the Finnish city of Oulu. Archive footage and photos full of subtle energy circle the secrets of a small town.
A lonely woman in empty rooms. Nothing much happens. But then the protagonist ...
A life between Lenin and Lennon: nobody knew exactly what the Beatles sang about. Never mind: there was a big Hippie movement even in the Soviet Union.
Oh, how they sing: the finch, nightingale and hooded crow are the main protagonists of this found footage film about the question of what stories humans read into nature.
