The Selkup people live along the Taz River in the Taymyr Peninsula. They are fishermen and hunters. The film documents the nomadic life of Yuri Kalin’s family. Finnish ethnographer Kai Donner, father of director Jrn Donner, who produced this film, described the language and culture of Selkups. His writings, as well as the books by Freud and Jung, and the music by Meredith Monk...
A plunge into the last months of Finland's WWII in all its tired gruesomeness. A fugue of dour, sad, doubt-ridden, sorrow-filled faces, confessions and oratorical detours, an in memoriam of a time and people gone by. A masterpiece of AV oral history.
Finland won the Winter War, and fast. The Continuation War was something else: the fighting went on for more than three years (Ju...
Why are some of the world's biggest international companies translating an absurd foreign
book into their own language, trying to hide their aims and avoid discussion about the human
rights and freedom of speech situation in Turkmenistan
Shadow Of The Holy Book investigates the morality of international companies and the dictatorship
of oil-and-gas-rich Turkmenistan. These com...
Documentary Moonshine Village (Pontikkapitj) is a story of producing Moonshine in town called Kitee in Finland and how it affects on village’s social and economical development in 1960-70.
In a small village in Finland, which has relied solely on metallurgical activities for the past two centuries, Aki Kaurismki and his friend, the poet and writer Mika Ltti, are constructing their own cinema theatre within an old foundry. Employing recycled wood, metal, and pre-owned furniture, the residents of Karkkila collaboratively craft Kino Laika. A cinema nurtured by the...
"Man of Letters" is a documentary about Momus directed by Hannu Puttonen for Finnish television in 1994.
It stars Momus, Sarah Cracknel, Jarvis Cocker, Ed Ball, Simon Fisher Turner, Alison Spritzler-Rose and Rozelle Bentheim.
Technically speaking, "Man of Letters" is not so much a documentary on Momus, but in the words of Gilles Deleuze —a rhizome of narratives: stream of consc...
12岁的小女孩坦朱斯卡有着一双大眼睛和一种不可思议的表情，她就像一个偶像。她真正的家在白俄罗斯，但她和父亲住在瓦斯克纳瓦修道院，这是爱沙尼亚和俄罗斯边境的一个东正教社区。坦朱斯卡被迫远离自己的家，母亲和姐妹，因为社区领袖Vasili神父打算驱除她的恶魔。父母描述了他们试图从医生、治疗师和教会那里获得帮助，帮助患有奇怪症状的女儿，她有时甚至停止进食。“有这么多意见。主啊，我们该听谁的？”她母亲很痛苦。在明斯克的精神病院，坦朱斯卡被诊断为精神分裂症。观众不仅相信女孩需要帮助，而且相信修道院封闭墙后的监狱般生活——每天的驱魔课程和皮带式的纪律——对坦朱斯卡的精神健康毫无帮助。
Joonas Berghll, who suffers from chronic Lyme disease, seeks a cure to his illness and answers to why efforts are not made to stop the global Lyme disease epidemic before it is too late.
