Miia Tervo

Directing

Miia Tervo

Born 1980-02-18 · Rovaniemi, Finland

Miia Tervo (born February 18, 1980 in Rovaniemi) is a Jussi-awarded film director and screenwriter currently living in Helsinki. She grew up in Muurola, the former Rovaniemi rural municipality , 25 kilometers from the center of Rovaniemi. She attended high school in Rovaniemi, after which she moved to Helsinki to work in a restaurant. Then she worked in a fish factory in Norway and volunteered abroad. She studied writing poems at Orivesi College , cinematography in Turku and cinematography at the University of Arts and Sciences (now Aalto University). Tervo has received Kéluvataite artist grants for her films.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Aurora poster
5.7

A carefree commitment phobic woman falls for a man with a small daughter whilst helping him to find a wife before he dies.

Aurora

2019

Aurora poster
5.7

A carefree commitment phobic woman falls for a man with a small daughter whilst helping him to find a wife before he dies.

Aurora

2019

Little Snow Animal poster
6.5

Teenage girl looks for love but doesn't know where to find it.

Little Snow Animal

2009

Clumsy Little Acts of Tenderness poster
5.0

A weekend father wants to bond with his teenage daughter by taking her with him to the carwash. They end up on a life-changing adventure in the supermarket, at the endless sanitary towel aisle. They get "help" from an older lady who shares intimate stories of her experience, some about menstruation, some on wildly different topics.

Clumsy Little Acts of Tenderness

2015

Clumsy Little Acts of Tenderness poster
5.0

A weekend father wants to bond with his teenage daughter by taking her with him to the carwash. They end up on a life-changing adventure in the supermarket, at the endless sanitary towel aisle. They get "help" from an older lady who shares intimate stories of her experience, some about menstruation, some on wildly different topics.

Clumsy Little Acts of Tenderness

2015

No artwork available
NR

Aino, a mental health nurse who hates rich people, is preparing a performance with her patients at a mental hospital for a television talent competition. But when she falls in love with one of her patients, Mikael, a wealthy financial advisor, Aino must learn that to be loved, she must dare to reveal herself in all her madness.

Hulluna sinua rakastan

No artwork available
NR

Aino, a mental health nurse who hates rich people, is preparing a performance with her patients at a mental hospital for a television talent competition. But when she falls in love with one of her patients, Mikael, a wealthy financial advisor, Aino must learn that to be loved, she must dare to reveal herself in all her madness.

Hulluna sinua rakastan

The Missile poster
6.2

Niina, a single mother working for a small-town newspaper, is drawn into an investigation into the fall of a Soviet missile that upends her life and that of her small northern village.

The Missile

2024

The Missile poster
6.2

Niina, a single mother working for a small-town newspaper, is drawn into an investigation into the fall of a Soviet missile that upends her life and that of her small northern village.

The Missile

2024

One-Off Incident poster
7.0

Teenage girls take their shirts off at their own party but get an audience. Emmi says no but does it really mean no? Sonja is tired of her body being a problem to others. Why has nearly every woman such experiences? One-Off Incident short films are part of a film sensation made by fifteen filmmakers, artists, researchers and social activists collectively. The films reveal the hidden way power is exercised on women in both private life and in society. The films are fiction but the stories come from the writers’ own real-life observations.

One-Off Incident

2019

Force of Habit poster
5.7

Force of Habit follows the lives of various women throughout one day. Hilla is having a romantic vacation, Emmi is throwing a house party, and Milja is on her way to school when they’re approached by a stranger and things take an unexpected turn. At the same time, Emppu, a young actress, is conflicted as she rehearses for the biggest role of her life. Elsewhere, Aleksi, an inexperienced prosecutor, is preparing for his first court case in haste; Niina, the victim of the crime, has been waiting years to see her case tried. Miia throws a company party, and the mood dramatically changes when her colleague Katja opens up about their boss coming on to her. Miia and a couple of her closest colleagues try to resolve the situation, but how do the others react?

Force of Habit

2019

Force of Habit poster
5.7

Force of Habit follows the lives of various women throughout one day. Hilla is having a romantic vacation, Emmi is throwing a house party, and Milja is on her way to school when they’re approached by a stranger and things take an unexpected turn. At the same time, Emppu, a young actress, is conflicted as she rehearses for the biggest role of her life. Elsewhere, Aleksi, an inexperienced prosecutor, is preparing for his first court case in haste; Niina, the victim of the crime, has been waiting years to see her case tried. Miia throws a company party, and the mood dramatically changes when her colleague Katja opens up about their boss coming on to her. Miia and a couple of her closest colleagues try to resolve the situation, but how do the others react?

Force of Habit

2019

It’s All Right poster
6.0

A raped women meets the authorities.

It’s All Right

2019

It’s All Right poster
6.0

A raped women meets the authorities.

It’s All Right

2019

No artwork available
NR

Fate brings a young woman to idyllic Karelia in Russia, near the Russian-Finnish border. She meets an old woman, Santra, who represents the only remaining link to the Karelian culture of her ancestors. This film is about the difficulty and beauty of finding a home.

Santra and the Talking Trees

2013

No artwork available
NR

Fate brings a young woman to idyllic Karelia in Russia, near the Russian-Finnish border. She meets an old woman, Santra, who represents the only remaining link to the Karelian culture of her ancestors. This film is about the difficulty and beauty of finding a home.

Santra and the Talking Trees

2013