Yle Movies

Mika Kaurismaki's documentary Moro No Brasil features performances by a variety of Brazilian musical artists, intertwined with interviews of every day...

Ester is the perfect grandmother everyone expects her to be. But she unexpectedly inherits an old aunt and gets a big apartment and a lot of money. Sh...

To avoid a forced marriage, 19-year-old Hala finds refuge across the Euphrates River in northeastern Syria at a military academy where, while learning...

The controversial Jouko Turkka, actor, writer, teacher and stage director. With his mostly devoted students at the Theatre Academy/University of the A...

Taking sauna is the Finnish people's national obsession, so there are two of the per five Fins, and they build theme everywhere, even on military oper...

Musical tale of a happy man, whose happiness the Fur King tried to buy.

How is it possible that North Korea, one of the poorest countries on earth finances a nuclear weapons program large enough to challenge the USA? The a...

TV document about the Finnish music producer Atte Blom.

One morning just before Christmas, Leena receives a phone call from a hospital in her childhood hometown telling her that her mother is dying. This ne...

TV movie based on Christer Kihlman's novel. Writer Ralf spends the summer at the old family villa with his wife Madeleine and children. Family friend...

Two men, a Finn and a Belarusian live alone, on a lake's island.

Part five of the Emilia animation series. Emilia lives at home with her dog Oskari. One night they see a strange light phenomenon in the sky. Oskari t...

Young and active nationalist Aleksander Kesküla makes up his mind to use Lenin, the Bolsheviks' leader, in order to start a revolution in Russia with...

In the heart of the Arctic, the Yamal peninsula is the world’s largest gas exploitation zone, a symbol of Russia’s energy hyperpower, which caused the...

History of the Russian Alaska.

What are they really roaring and why, those gloomy long-haired heavy musicians all dressed in black? Heavy metal is really dear to many Finns, althoug...

A grandmother's everlasting love of her husband who disappeared in Russia during WWII hides a well-kept family secret. Her granddaughter discovers a p...