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AMPUMARATA
FINNISH FRUSTRATIONS

Finland / Suomi 1969
Fiction | 7 min | 35 mm | b&w
Director: Eila Kaarresalo(-Kasari)
Script: Eila Kaarresalo(-Kasari)
Photography: Esko Nevalainen
Sound: Matti Ylinen
Editing: Maisa Pitkänen
Music: M.A. Numminen
Production: Eila Kaarresalo(-Kasari)

Finnish Frustrations by Eila Kaarresalo is one of the first Finnish short films that have been consciously made from a woman’s point of view. It is a classic of its genre; in a form of a typical dance-pavilion story it examines with sharp irony the woman’s sexual inequality beside a man. At the shootingrange of a dance-hall, those that were not hit end up going home empty-handed. “Prince Valiant will come my way, I will feel his warmth… My look, your protection…”

METSURIT
THE FOREST WORKERS

Finland / Suomi 1979
Documentary | 7 min | 35 mm | col.
Director: Erkko Kivikoski
Script: Erkko Kivikoski
Photography: Pertti Mutanen
Editing: Juho Gartz
Production: Erkko Kivikoski, Juho Gartz, Pertti Mutanen, Anssi Mänttäri

The Forest Workers by Erkko Kivikoski (1936-2005) contrasts the traditional forest work with the modern forest technology. The Forest Workers is a wrenching documentary film about the structural change of forestry, mechanization, and employment.

ELSA

Finland / Suomi 1981
Fiction | 5 min | 35 mm | col.
Director: Marja Pensala
Script: Marja Pensala
Photography: Kari Sohlberg
Editing: Marja Pensala
Music: Matti Bergström
Production: Marja Pensala

Elsa is an excellent miniature film by Marja Pensala, a cinematic satire that parodies the enthusiastic ”return to nature” of the trendy green idealists of the early 1980’s. It also offers a poignant and fresh view on women’s position in our society. A perfectly timed short film that employs both co-ordinated and contrasted sounds and images.

SIJAINEN
PROXY

Finland / Suomi 1989
Documentary | 24 min | 35 mm | col.
Director: Antti Peippo
Script: Martti Siirala, Antti Peippo
Photography: Antti Peippo
Sound: Timo Linnasalo
Editing: Anne Lakanen
Music: Antti Hytti
Production: Antti Peippo / Verity Films Ky

Proxy is an expedition to the first seven years of Antti Peippo's life. Peippo takes his viewers to a psychoanalytic excursion to his childhood and to the traumatic war time that left its mark in the heart of the whole nation. The feelings the war invokes, the collective quilt and responsibility reflect into the relationships of families. When a nation suffers, the individuals suffer also. Antti Peippo knew he had cancer as he was filming Proxy - the movie is a study about the relationship of community and individual, about how national traumas reflect on the individual.

P(L)AIN TRUTH

Finland / Suomi 1993
Fiction | 16 min | 35 mm | col.
Director: Ilppo Pohjola
Script: Ilppo Pohjola
Animation: Seppo Rintasalo
Photography: Arto Kaivanto
Sound: Pekka Karjalainen
Editing: Heikki Salo
Music: Glenn Branca
Production: Crystal Eye Ltd.

The film tells the story of a transsexual and her transformation from a biological woman into a biological man. Special Prize of Jury and Main Prize of National Competition, Tampere 1993.

TYTTÖ JA SOTAMIES ELI KUINKA KEISARI JALKANSA MENETTI
THE MAIDEN AND THE SOLDIER

Finland, Czech Republic / Suomi, Tšekki 1995
Animation | 9 min | 35 mm | col.
Director: Katariina Lillqvist
Script: Katariina Lillqvist
Animation: Ján Klos
Photography: Zdenek Pospišil
Sound: Jukka Kaitala
Editing: Katariina Lillqvist
Music: Jiri Brenek
Production: Yleisradio Oy / Studio Jirího Trnky / KF a.s. / Kinotuotanto Oy

A strikingly realised poetic tale, based on an old folk ballad of a maiden who sets out to search for her lost fiancé in the turmoils of war. The beloved is found in stationary hospital where the Grim Reaper is preparing for his gloomy task. The puppet animation was inspired by the poem “Legend of a Dead Soldier” by Bertolt Brecht. The film could also be seen as an artist's statement of the war raging in Balkan, the heart of Europe. Special Mention in International competition and Main Prize in Finnish competition at Tampere, 1996.

KOVAT MIEHET
A STONE LEFT UNTURNED

Finland 1999 | Fiction | 19 min | 35mm | col
Director: Maarit Lalli
Script: Leo Viirret
Photography: Rauno Ronkainen
Sound: Risto Iissalo
Editing: Riitta Poikselkä
Music: Kepa Lehtinen
Production: Aki Kaurismäki / Sputnik Oy

A warm-hearted tragicomedy about the delicate relationship between father and son. In a never-ending story with few words, an ancient stone at a farm field becomes a wall between two generations of sturdy, stubborn Finns. When it comes to expressing feelings between father and son, silence really can be golden. Best Fiction in the International Competition, Special Prize in the Finnish Competition and Prize of the Junior Jury at Tampere in 2000.