Selma Vilhunen

Directing

Selma Vilhunen

Born 1976-01-01

Selma Vilhunen (born October 1976 in Turku) is a Finnish filmmaker. Vilhunen and fellow producer Kirsikka Saari received an Academy Awards nomination in the category of Best Live Action Short Film for the 2013 film Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?.

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Behind the camera

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4.5

Nordic Factory is a Residency, Workshop and Short Film Concept that stimulates cultural and cinematic meetings between young film directors, while giving them an international platform to present their first or second feature projects. This concept continues and builds on an initial, successful collaboration in 2013 between Directors’ Fortnight and the Taipei Film Commission, and will continue in 2015 with a new partner country.

Nordic Factory

2014

Happy Sassy Beautiful poster
6.7

Kaija Koo is one of the most popular artists in Finnish pop music and power ballads. The biopic follows Kaija Koo's journey through music and life as she navigates through her challenges and finds true freedom in her personal and professional life. From an insecure young woman, she grows into an independent and strong woman whose personal growth story, and especially the songs that emerge from it, will empower many generations.

Happy Sassy Beautiful

2026

Four Little Adults poster
5.9

The life of Juulia, a Finnish parliamentarian, is suddenly turned upside down by the discovery of the betrayal by her husband Matias, a Protestant pastor, with the young Enni. After an initial moment of anger and desperation, Juulia realizes that she cannot leave him and she understands that sometimes it is possible to sacrifice a part of one's individual happiness for the good of the people you love. For this reason she suggests to Matias that they open their relationship, a choice that will lead her to meet Miska, a young non-binary, who is also her girlfriend, and to experiment with polyamory naturally and spontaneously, with all the consequences of the case, positive and negative.

Four Little Adults

2023

Four Little Adults poster
5.9

The life of Juulia, a Finnish parliamentarian, is suddenly turned upside down by the discovery of the betrayal by her husband Matias, a Protestant pastor, with the young Enni. After an initial moment of anger and desperation, Juulia realizes that she cannot leave him and she understands that sometimes it is possible to sacrifice a part of one's individual happiness for the good of the people you love. For this reason she suggests to Matias that they open their relationship, a choice that will lead her to meet Miska, a young non-binary, who is also her girlfriend, and to experiment with polyamory naturally and spontaneously, with all the consequences of the case, positive and negative.

Four Little Adults

2023

Hobbyhorse Revolution poster
6.5

A film about teenagers with growing pains, who discover their own voice and talent through riding and grooming toy horses.

Hobbyhorse Revolution

2017

Hobbyhorse Revolution poster
6.5

A film about teenagers with growing pains, who discover their own voice and talent through riding and grooming toy horses.

Hobbyhorse Revolution

2017

Do I Have to Take Care of Everything? poster
6.1

A comedy about a chaotic morning in a family with kids, and a mother who is determined that it's best to take care of everything herself.

Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?

2012

Song poster
NR

Song is a story of the last Finnish rune singer and his pupil, and the comforting power of singing.

Song

2014

Song poster
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Song is a story of the last Finnish rune singer and his pupil, and the comforting power of singing.

Song

2014

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Actor Ville Virtanen visits his elderly aunt Ulla Perho-Nummikoski, who once saved a forest which became important to both. Together they reflect on the bond between human and nature.

A Gate to Paradise

2026

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5.6

When carefree, young Lenni and his girlfriend find themselves expecting a child, he ends up looking for a role model in all the wrong places as he becomes involved with local right-wing activists.

Stupid Young Heart

2018

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3.3

Maria's ex-boyfriend Kristian is homeless and moves back in with Maria. Maria works as a nurse at the home of Eeva, a paralyzed writer.

Pietà

2007

Pietà poster
3.3

Maria's ex-boyfriend Kristian is homeless and moves back in with Maria. Maria works as a nurse at the home of Eeva, a paralyzed writer.

Pietà

2007

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NR

Mette, Lina and Anna Sophie, three teenagers, are on their way to a party. A strange discovery on a local beach will change the very nature of their friendship.

The Girl and the Dogs

2014

Suburban Virgin poster
5.6

Two teenage girls, one of them desperate to lose her virginity, take a hitchhiking road trip.

Suburban Virgin

2003

Loggers poster
5.1

The life and work of Asko and Myrsky in a snowy forest. Asko is a man, Myrsky (Storm) is a horse. During wintertime they make their living working as loggers in the small suburbian forests of the metropolitan area. The work is hard and the days are long. "The man and his horse only have each other for company. Loggers is a film about collaboration between man and animal, and about nearly extinct traditional work set in the 21st century landscape. But above all it is the filmmaker's tribute to steaming testosterone in the freezing cold air.

Loggers

2006

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7.0

A film about a girl whose best friend is a fish and her crush is a raccoon. Ruutana is a film about the need to touch. You can't live alone, but on the other hand you can't force someone to be close to you.

Ruutana

2001

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7.0

A film about a girl whose best friend is a fish and her crush is a raccoon. Ruutana is a film about the need to touch. You can't live alone, but on the other hand you can't force someone to be close to you.

Ruutana

2001

Little Wing poster
6.7

Little Wing tells the story of 12-year-old Varpu, who's quickly growing to adulthood, and about her mother, who doesn't want to grow up. Varpu lives with her mother and has never met her father. One night Varpu has enough of her riding buddies and her mother. She steals a car and drives up north in search of her father, of whom she only knows the name. But her father is not exactly what she had expected. Meeting him trigger something in Varpu and mother's life, making them realize their role in each other's lives, and in the world.

Little Wing

2016

Little Wing poster
6.7

Little Wing tells the story of 12-year-old Varpu, who's quickly growing to adulthood, and about her mother, who doesn't want to grow up. Varpu lives with her mother and has never met her father. One night Varpu has enough of her riding buddies and her mother. She steals a car and drives up north in search of her father, of whom she only knows the name. But her father is not exactly what she had expected. Meeting him trigger something in Varpu and mother's life, making them realize their role in each other's lives, and in the world.

Little Wing

2016

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4.5

17-year-old Sami has an accident which resulted in him reluctantly sent to closed psychiatric hospital. Sami refuses to speak or show his feelings, even when the nurse Taneli is trying everything in order to understand how the crash really happened. While Sami's and his roommate's Rude's eccentric friendships gradually increases, the truth of past events begin to unravel.

Homesick

2005

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Five lapp women return home from Norwegian prison camp after leaving Finland with German soldiers during World War II.

Ei kertonut katuvansa

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Five lapp women return home from Norwegian prison camp after leaving Finland with German soldiers during World War II.

Ei kertonut katuvansa

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A documentary film in which the author lives to the full one summer day with her father - a day that the father planned in a letter to his daughter, but which never came true because of the father's death.

Päivä isän kanssa

1999