Antti Pesonen

On Christmas eve, as the temperature get over 30 degrees Celsius, two people cross their paths and their encounter riser their thirst for compassion and beer. Juan, the mechanic, has worked for a long and a hot day. For the whole day he has been waiting to enjoy a peaceful, nice and a cold beer. However, beautiful Inés arrives with car trouble and awakens distress in the lonely mechanic. As a result of unfortunate events, everybody from a angry postman to a husband who lost his trailer participates in a a wild chase takes us across the county. The film portraits a sleepy world that has a language which resembles an odd mix of southern European languages. Runaway Beer is a short comical story about loneliness, happiness and beer.

The director Lauri Nurkse tells that Veijarit is a film about "arjensietokyvyttömyys" (= inability to tolerate everyday life) and about the Peter Pan complex. The main actor Mikko Leppilampi says it's about "kolkyttoistavuotiaat" (= thirtyeenagers = people of thirty behaving like teenagers). An immediate reference point is the commedia all'italiana of the 1950s and the 1960s, the black comedy often exposing the infantile stage of development of the Italian male. Saku and Ässä are anti-heroes, but we never fail to sense the humanity behind their shallow and crazy ways. Veijarit is a satire and a parody of a superficial way of life, but there is a vitality in the protagonists that we feel can lead them to a more meaningful stage of existence after the prolonged youth full of sound and fury. There is a motif of transcendence in the imagery of flying: will the balloons carry me or will they burst.

Emma and Joel get dumped by their partners on the same day, and when they meet each other they think they're a perfect match. Emma discovers she is pregnant and ends up taking care of Joel's mother while he goes off on tour to conduct around the world. Pregnancy, a crazy mother-in-law, trust, and loyalty test the couple to make the right decisions.

A mural painted with blood is found on the wall of Pasila train station, which depicts Finland's best-known serial killer Lasse Maasalo. The text in the mural, “Making the world a better place”, is linked to a voting circulating in social media, where people can vote for persons that world would be a better place without. Soon the first body is found and Sorjonen must find the person who has named himself as The Judge.

The rise and fall of Love Records record label in 1960s and 1970s Finland.

Sorjonen is searching for a serial killer in Lappeenranta.