Peter Kanerva

Acting

Peter Kanerva

Born 1978-10-11 · Kerava, Finland

Acting credits

Never Alone poster
6.5

1942. The State of Finland has formed an alliance with Nazi Germany. An elderly man single-handedly tries to stop a secret attempt by the Finnish State Police to hand over Jewish refugees directly to the Gestapo.

Never Alone

2025

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

The Dissidents poster
5.7

In Soviet-era Estonia, three young mavericks drop everything and flee to Sweden, but soon learn the free world is not all it's cracked up to be.

The Dissidents

2017

X&Y poster
5.9

An artist has chosen a famous male actor for them together, in the context of a feature film, to deconstruct themselves and their invading roles. They engage in a boundless play with their surroundings in an exploration of identity, male and female.

X&Y

2018

Luottomies-elokuva: All in poster
5.8

When Tommi doesn't get the promotion he was hoping for from his father-in-law Johan, he decides to get into the investment business to buy his dream house with his wife, Harriet. However, things are complicated by the fact that Tommi is easily fooled and the money from the old apartment, more than half a million euros, disappears in a pyramid scheme. When Tommi is in danger of losing Harriet for good, his loyal friend Juhis takes the reins. Juhis plans a rescue operation that kind of works.

Luottomies-elokuva: All in

2024

Where Once We Walked poster
4.2

The stories of the aristocratic Lilliehjelm family, the middle-class Widing family and the poor Kajander family from the Finland's independence through the Civil War and the Roaring Twenties ending during the Second World War.

Where Once We Walked

2011

Winning Ticket poster
5.0

Eevi works in a beauty parlor, leading a humdrum life in the suburbs of Helsinki with his husband Kari, a wannabe rocker. After the jackpot, the couple agrees to carry on with their lives as before, without telling anyone about the stroke of luck. But the money is burning holes in their pockets and that’s hard to hide. Their opinions about themselves and their relationship are put to the test. Everyone seems now to have a strange attitude towards them – although they try to pretend to be the same people as before. Do the millions bring happiness after all?

Winning Ticket

2018

Urban Family poster
4.6

Selja is in her thirties and lives in a shared flat with her friends. One day a boy appears at her door; a boy she gave up for adoption sixteen years earlier. Selja has a chance to get to know her son, but at the same time, makes a complete mess of her and her best friends’ lives. Urban Family is a new kind of music film set in the modern-day world.

Urban Family

2015

A Patriotic Man poster
5.5

Every nation gets the heroes it deserves. A man with a special blood type is used as a device for human doping athletes skiing national team.

A Patriotic Man

2013

Trainer poster
6.4

Rise and fall of Jari Sarasvuo, as he transforms from a media person to business training guru during the crazy years of the 1990s and 2000s, just before the financial crash.

Trainer

2018

Colorado Avenue poster
4.8

In the early 1900s, emigrant Hanna returns from Colorado to Finland. In America she was known as Dollar-Hanna, but in Finland she has to endure the Civil War and live through the prohibition. Hanna's independent spirit will guide her.

Colorado Avenue

2007

Thick Lashes of Lauri Mäntyvaara poster
5.3

There's this hot ice-hockey guy called Lauri Mäntyvaara. Satu promises she'll do her best, so that her best friend Heidi will get him. You'd think that the picturesque Finnish Archipelago would be the perfect place to discover your first love (and get rid of your virginity), but it will not be easy, if a cynical protein-shake-slurping ice hockey team thinks the target of your desire should focus only on the European Championship, and the only places you can escape to are the pretentious summer wedding parties - or bitter divorce parties.

Thick Lashes of Lauri Mäntyvaara

2017

Carrier poster
6.0

Janika takes advantage of her pregnancy by smuggling amphetamine from Tallinn to Helsinki with her brother.

Carrier

2020

Allas poster
7.3

A speechless story of a young boy in a skeleton costume and his father’s swimming trip to a lido. It seems like an ordinary trip until a strange woman with sunglasses joins the father at the pool.

Allas

2023