Documentaries

Child #182 is a documentary film about a girl who grows up as a foster child in the 60’s and 70’s in Finland. The story is told through a collage of film and pictures and with different narrators citeing reports from different sources, such as social workers reports, letter, advertisements in newspapers and a medical reports.

The emotionally broken Sámis finally get back their ancestral heritage that has been taken away from them. The film director Suvi faces the collective pains and starts to break the outside image of the Sámis, not only for herself but for the wellbeing of the whole nation. The film is set in the Museum world in a turning point. Where the Sámis have to re-determine their relationship to identity, the national museums have to deal with their colonialist history. Suvi follows repatriation processes in different stages. The Finnish National Museum Sámi collection is returning home but the holy drums are stuck in the museums around Europe. Suvi takes the audience behind the scenes of the museum world where the debate of the othering and cultural inequality is causing inevitable change.

Tom House the VR (Virtual Reality) Experience is a non-linear documentary piece that immerses the viewer into the rooms of 1421 Laveta Terrace, better known as Tom House. It is the former residence of Finnish artist Tom of Finland (1920–1991) in Los Angeles, where he mastered his artwork and lived over the last decade of his life.

This house is a place of pilgrimage for Tom’s fans, attracting visitors and accolades from all around the world. It is an erotic museum, an artist residence, headquarters of the Tom of Finland foundation and a vast archive dedicated to protect and preserve not only Tom’s artwork but of many other artists’ as well, and promote the life philosophy of empowerment, inclusion and sexual freedom.

Lynx Man is a poetic documentary about pensioner Hannu’s efforts to form a connection to the Eurasian lynx hiding in the forests. With his trail camera, Hannu opens a gateway into the Finnish nature and to seeking a genuine connection to nature. Can Hannu save the Eurasian lynx, or is it in fact nature who ultimately saves the man?