Documentaries

A prismatic meditation on pollution in the capital of the World’s biggest free-market democracy and the most polluted and populated city, Delhi – a film about the pollution inside of the human mind.

The Jehovah’s Witnesses’ internal judicial committee concluded that Josefina, 11 years old, had seduced her abuser, because “an adult wouldn’t touch a child that way.” Josefina believed she was guilty and remained silent. Until now. 25 years later she relives her traumas by reconstructing scenes from her childhood with other former Jehovah’s Witnesses.

Walk the Tideline is a film about the traces we leave behind us. It follows beachcombers at shores trying to find treasures. Between the people the film drifts out to the unknown oceans and shows us the diverse system of ocean currents, how they carry and swirl our history in small pieces. 

Ruthless Times – Songs of Care is a documentary-material based film, partly using a choir song element in portraying the future challenges of the elderly care sector. 

Kelet is based in Finland, far away from her family in Manchester. Her life in Finland is sometimes lonely, in spite of Lola, another Somali transwoman who is her roomie, soulmate, and best friend. Being a black transwoman in Finland is not easy: racism and transphobia are deeply rooted in Finnish society.

Lost Boys is a documentary about damnation – about three men lost in a drug hell, defeated in the game of life, disappearing into the streets of Cambodia. Of the three, Jani is known as the main character of the documentary Reindeerspotting – Escape from Santaland (2010) and Joonas as its director. The main character of Lost Boys is Joonas himself.

The naked real life story full of sex, drugs and death tells us what happened ten years ago when these friends enjoying the never-ending after party following the success of the opening of the film Reindeerspotting that depicts drug users in Rovaniemi, change from immortal to mortal. The party comes to an end when Jani dies a violent death in Phnom Penh.

In the film Lost Boys, Joonas’ camera takes the viewer into the dizzying noise of Bangkok and the alleys of night-time Phnom Penh, to the last weeks of Jani’s life and the desperate search following his disappearance and death. What happened on the journey?

Can the answer be found in the videos shot by Joonas or in something that has yet to be investigated and faced, filmed or told? Is it all about drugs, women and money or does the trail lead somewhere deeper?

Someone knows something. Joonas is looking for his friends and the local women with whom they partied and with whom they shared whatever they had to share. Joonas must find his own truth about what happened among the drugs and the gloom. There are no heroes there. 

About 700 Palestinian minors are arrested and jailed every year by the Israeli security forces in the West Bank. They are taken from their homes at night and interrogated, with mental and physical pressure, which violate international law. Almost all of them are convicted and sent to prison. The most common offence is stone throwing; but behind the official reasoning, there’s an underlying systemic motive to these mass arrests of children: it’s the most efficient mechanism to deter the population and preserve Israel’s 50 years long occupation of the West Bank.

The thoughts of Mao Zedong were collected in the Small Red Book, one of the world’s most widespread publications. It was waved also in Finnish demonstrations in the 1960s and 1970s. The Maoist movement of the cold Finland was also small and red. This documentary digs into the thoughts and experiences of this enthusiastic group.

The Other Voice is Annika Grof’s collage film about four academics and one cinematographer. The film offers a view to Finnish democracy through a tragic story of university and a tragicomic story of governmental politics.

Since the white men came to Finland, the Sámi have only been losing their rights. And it seems to get worse year by year. The new laws of the National Board of Forestry, the definition of the Sámi people by the Supreme Administrative Court of Finland, the Parliaments failure to ratify ILO169 (international law package for improving the position of the indigenous people) and the new restrictions of the Sámi’s fishing rights show how the Finns are treating their small minority. These decisions harden the daily life of the Sámi, who mostly live out of the nature. The Sámi are ignored while making these decisions.