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- A funny and moving film about teenagers with growing pains, who discover their own voice and talent through riding and grooming toy horses.
- A Danish writer embarks on a quest to locate a disappeared Apache tribe in Mexico but becomes entangled in ethical dilemmas, wrestling with the moral complexities of pursuing a tribe that ardently seeks obscurity.
- Finns don't show emotion - they sing karaoke.
- Following a daughter, wife and mother as they lead the political party Golden Dawn through the upcoming elections.
- A 75-year-old woman dedicates herself to caring for her 100-year-old mother. Their already strained relationship takes a heightened toll when an enigmatic bat takes up residence in the mother's room.
- It follows Verneri Junkala, a CS:GO e-athlete who wants to be the best in Finland. He always comes in second until he begins working with the world's best Esports psychologist.
- The film follows the life-journeys of two women living on the fringe in a rapidly changing country. A quest for identity, freedom and finding one's place in the world.
- Dancehall dancer Evaleena Vuorenmaa gains 40 kilos and is forced to face the judging gaze of her employers, society and even herself. Fat Dance is a short documentary about a woman, who decides to take the power into her own hands and build her image the way she wants it to be. Is it really true that sexiness is not about size?
- A Baltic Sea island. Two brothers with their partners. Suddenly, the men disappear. An ecological catastrophe and a police investigation traps women on the island. They will soon discover truths that will redefine their lives.
- The Finnish man's name Urpo derives from the Latin name Urbanus which means 'cultivated' and 'city dweller'. Urbanus has been a name of 8 popes and even the Hungarian Prime Minister Orbán's name has the same roots. But in Finland, people have started using the name Urpo as a synonym for idiot. In this warm-hearted and humorous short documentary, four men all called Urpo gather to reflect on the meaning and impact of their name on their lives.
- When Finnish-Somalian Mustafe discovers his ancestors' land in the horn of Africa is full of copper and gold, he decides to swap his family's safe but boring life in the Nordics for Somaliland, a self-declared state in East Africa. As Mustafe struggles to lift the treasures from underground, his children embark on a bumpy journey to uncover where they really belong.
- A look into the life of Finnish television reporter Hannu Karpo, who dedicated much his career to uncovering injustice among the Finnish society.
- War and Peace of Mind explores what war does to the human mind and how both, the individuals and the nation as a whole, survive it psychologically. Finland and WWII, locally known as continuation war, is the backdrop of this documentary.
- A Russian mother and her queer son try to cope with their new situation, as the son, a political activist and radical artist, applies for political asylum in Europe.
- Cheer Up takes us into the teenage lives of a team of losing cheerleaders in the Arctic Circle, Finland. They try their best to get better and look perfect doing it, while really, life just sucks. For Patricia, Aino and Miia, finding out who they are, where they belong and what family means is much more important than any trophy.
- In 1995 Kati was one of the kids, who had tattoos performed on them during their art lessons at upper comprehensive school. Now at the age of 30 Kati goes back to her hometown in Finland to meet the other tattoo takers as adults. Surprisingly, the tattoos taken as kids seem to have been a some type of omen of the future.
- When Jasmin's parents decide to move their family back to her dad's home country, Somaliland, she is faced with the biggest change of her life. She has to say goodbye to the familiar playgrounds in the Finnish suburbs, as well as her best friend Maryam. When Jasmin arrives, an avalanche of things hit her: the streets are not paved, people speak so loudly it sounds like arguing, there are no playgrounds, people don't use cutlery for eating, camels roam the city streets. After recovering from her culture shock Jasmin starts to realise there is actually something familiar here; nobody stares at her for looking different like back in Finland. Maybe having two homes is not so bad after all?
- In the heart of the Arctic, the Yamal peninsula is the world's largest gas exploitation zone, a symbol of Russia's energy hyperpower, which caused the appetite of oil corporations. But the Yamal peninsula is also the ancestral home of the Nenets, who have been pasturing here with their droves for over 200 generations. Every year the nomads undertake a journey of 1500 km. But for how much longer can they survive? Today in Yamal, pastures have given way to gas fields. Growing towns, a railway, an airport, the deep scars on the landscape caused by extraction of gas and oil, and the new nuclear-powered icebreakers, which will create busy shipping lanes in the Arctic, are all changing the local ecosystem. With the industry dramatically modifying the landscape, accelerating the effects of global warming, the Nenets way of life is under threat. The documentary gives a unique insight into a vanishing way of life, enhanced by stunning aerial footage and rare access to an extraordinary people.
- NASA roboticist and Curiosity -rover driver Vandi Verma works on Mars on a daily basis from her desk at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Los Angeles. Her work is entirely relying on images and the technologically advanced use of them. The film creates a philosophical journey into the intriguing world of Mars science. Through the lenses of various experts we learn how NASAs' images are made, used and manipulated for the sake of science, but also public information. Mars is the ideal place for an investigation into our paradoxical relationship to photography. Do images reflect reality or shape it?
- Teenager Ved comes from a violent home in the Mumbai slums. When he joins a project aiming to foster healthy masculinity, he begins to realise there may be a brighter path for his future than the one paved by his abusive, controlling father. One of Ved's mentors is Harish, a gentle man in his 50s who has dedicated his life to abolishing toxic masculinity. Through the support Ved gets, he takes his first wobbly steps into adult life while developing an unlikely new passion: dancing. Boys Who Like Girls is a coming of age story set in the aftermath of the infamous 2012 Delhi gang rape and the rise of the #MeToo movement. The world is in the midst of furious discussion about gendered violence and what it means to be a man. Will Ved's generation of boys be the first that actually likes girls?
- In West Africa, Anu Kantele, a doctor of tropical diseases, is leading a diarrhea vaccine study that could save the lives of millions of children. When 700 helpful Finnish tourists test the vaccine, it is a start of a unique holiday trip in the tropics.
- Three individuals in an old prison confront their personal obstacles. Time goes by inevitably and all three have their own opinion about it. Freedom or the lack of it shows itself in a various forms.
- Elias, 10, is afraid of losing his mother who at times disappears from his life due to her fluctuating mental illness. Missing her desperately, Elias tries to hold on to the magical fantasy world that the two of them share together.