Seidi Haarla

In Finnish forest, Saga and her husband Jon embark on a new chapter as parents. But Saga's joy is overshadowed by a chilling suspicion about their newborn, unbeknownst to Jon, causing a rift as she alone grapples with the disturbing truth.

A young Finnish woman escapes an enigmatic love affair in Moscow by boarding a train to the arctic port of Murmansk. Forced to share the long ride and a tiny sleeping car with a larger than life Russian miner, the unexpected encounter leads the occupants of Compartment No. 6 to face major truths about human connection.

Mireille promises Johnny the big screen, dragging him to an audition whose rules only she truly knows.

While at the reception, Inkeri overhears the doctor telling the nurse behind the corner that there is no life expectancy or hope left. Inkeri's daughter Maija takes it upon herself to care for her mother, even if it means forcing her, but Inkeri has other plans. As her last act, she intends to save Maija from repeating her own mistakes and then throw herself into the Arctic Ocean. Inkeri escapes from the nursing home for her final journey with her steel-haired friends and Matti, who has tagged along. Before reaching the Arctic Ocean, Inkeri throws herself into life: painful memories, intense emotions, and forest rave.

The film reveals, what kind of a film AI would write based on previous Finnish popular films.

World War II is around the corner, but the only thing Sally Bauer can think of is the ocean. Her dream is to swim across the English Channel.

Helena is spending an evening with her family when someone knocks on the door. Unknown man confronts Helena with accusations towards her perfect family. Helena drives the man and the accusations away. But the seed of doubt has been planted.

A woman wants to be a better mom for her teenage daughter. The girl has a dream the mother wants to make come true, but a young man gets in the way.

Iida, an elderly Sámi woman, who has abandoned her roots under the pressure of forced Finnishization, is conflicted between selling her old homestead and hiding her cultural heritage from her niece, as the rural way of life she has suppressed begins to creep back in.

The result of a correspondence between the artists, 8mm film shot in North Karelia, and archival material. The average life expectancy of a girl born in Finland is 84.2 years—the work focuses on the statistical midpoint of the protagonist’s life, reflecting through the concept of an oceanic feeling on themes of death, fear of death, embodiment, and intergenerationality.

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?

The festive spirit of an office party is ruined, when a woman accidentally reveals that their colleague had harassed her at the previous office party.

Elias, 10, is afraid of losing his mother who at times disappears from his life due to her fluctuating mental illness. Missing her desperately, Elias tries to hold on to the magical fantasy world that the two of them share together.

12-year-old Ossi sees his grandpa dying from a cardiac arrest while working. That very moment Ossi decides not to end up the same way. After underachieving in elementary school and intentionally failing to get any higher education, Ossi ends up living with his parents. Fed up, his father forces him to get a job or he will throw Ossi out in the street. Trapped, Ossi finds a solution when he learns that he is entitled to unemployment benefits.