Kari Väänänen Movies

Cheng, 45, a restaurant owner from China, has travelled with his young son halfway around the world to a remote village in Finland. His wife died...

Anders flees his drug debts to his former home village. Once there, he must come to terms with his past.

Set during the Second World War in the Finnish war zone.

Theater students rehearse their own play, "Freedom," and become entangled in the depths of the play's themes in their personal lives.

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...

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.

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

Eero Tyrni, a reporter for Iltapäivä newspaper, is in Austria doing a story on ski jumper Teemu Kimpilä. Kimpilä's jumps fail and...

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

Eric, a successful Finnish conductor, has time to relax by the ocean after work in Rio de Janeiro. He finds it hard to forget an encounter with an...

Live action comedy about a fictional town and it's uncommon people, based on a comic strip 'Fingerpori', by Pertti Jarla.

Arne comes into the family of an old friend of his father as a foster child. He hopes to find closeness and security with Harald, his wife Elsa and...

A week-long glimpse into the wretched existence of Ripa, a long-haired, hard-drinking lug. He is also a filmmaker-wannabee, whose last two projects...

A shocking crime forces a man to re-evaluate his life, only to find that going straight is more complicated than he imagined. Ali is a low-level...

Visa Vuorio, a 35-year old team leader at the Helsinki city gardening department, is suffering from a terminal neurological disease and only has a...

A criminal investigator arrives to investigate the murder of Annikki Niemi in a village whose residents remain silent about the killing. Local boss...

A young man finds himself in conflict with military order and purpose.

A self-loving fictional autobiography of author Kari Hotakainen.

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