Badding 2000
The life of Rauli "Badding" Somerjoki, a Finnish singer.
Fennada-Filmi
On the Road to Emmaus 2001
A cynical city dweller returns to his hometown to sell his family home, but becomes unexpectedly nostalgic.
Dog Nail Clipper 2004
Bright young soldier Mertsi suffers a permanent brain injury in the Second World War. In the late 1940s he wanders around the Finnish countryside looking for simple work and relying on other people's help. A workmate, Ville, tells him about his clever Spitz dog back home and the problems with her overlong dew claws. Together with his helpful war buddy Eetvi, Mertsi joins a lumber camp in the middle of a freezing winter, tries hard but finds the work there too strenuous for his body and mind. While he still sees nightmares about the war, in the daytime he keeps dreaming and worrying about the dog...
A Summer by the River 1998
Kuningasjätkä is set in North Karelia in the mid-1950s and depicts the summer of 10-year-old Topi at the boating site with his widowed father Tenho.
