FILMS
PARVET (2024) (ENG. “FLOCKS”)
SYNOPSIS:
The lives of five young adults get entangled for 24 hours in this absurd drama set in wintery Helsinki. The film focuses on experiences as a racialized or indigenous person, and as a non-binary trans person in Finland in 2024. The film deals also with the representation of people with learning disabilities. The film is fiction, but has been built collectively together with the actors and the whole crew based on real-life experiences.
Directed by Hannaleena Hauru and Katja Gauriloff, produced by Emilia Haukka / Aamu Film Company, written by Hannaleena Hauru, Katja Gauriloff, Heta Nuutinen, Krista Yrjölä, Stella Massa, Yolanda Correa, Ritni Ráste Pieski, Senna Vodzogbe,
Actors: Yolanda Correa, Stella Massa, Senna Vodzogbe, Adela Ogunbor, Ritni Ráste Pieski, Mikael Bashmakov, Lasse Viitamäki, Denisa Snyder, Aaron Bojang, Milla Kuikka.
FUCKING WITH NOBODY (2020)
"For being an original transgressive and groundbreaking film, which breathes and makes us all breathe freedom. For placing us in front of topics as current as the trivialization in social media or the deconstruction of the myth and the idyllic love story. For promoting diversity and for showing us an enterprising woman in whom we can feel identified. A complex film containing many readings that, through the numerous microuniverses it addresses, calls for continuous analysis and debate. In parallel, we find it to be a very inspiring film for all the women who work in the film industry."
– The Women in Focus Jury; Teresa Arbolí, Rafaela Rodríguez and Helena Sevine at Sevilla Film Festival 2020. AMMAA 'WOMEN IN FOCUS' AWARD at Sevilla European Film Festival SEFF:
SYNOPSIS:
After losing an interesting film job to her nemesis Kristian, Hanna teams up with her sister and counterculture friends to create a parody romance on Instagram between herself and young actor Ekku. They are passionate to make visible how the society is hungry for romantic narratives. Hanna starts living a crowd-pleasing love story for the public, only to find herself tangled up in the unresolved past with her “you were never my boyfriend” friend Lasse, who also happens to be the real-life co-writer and cinematographer of Fucking with Nobody. As the fake-romance starts affecting everyone involved, a hurricane of desires, fantasies, hurt and intimacy is set off. Everyone involved has to decide what they are ready to put in front of the camera. Fiction and auto-fiction crash and melt into each other, as writer-director Hannaleena Hauru plays the lead role of an ever-single film director Hanna.
Metatitanic (2018)
Rose and Billy Zane have a plan: move to a picturesque neighbourhood, get a dog, and get pregnant. However, a middle-class hetero romance isn't that simple. Stressed-out Rose meets the bohemian Jack and lets loose. Is Jack Rose's Leonardo DiCaprio or just an iceberg?
Thick Lashes of Lauri Mäntyvaara (2017)
Satu and Heidi go around the idyllic archipelago sabotaging posh summer weddings as they preach that real love is not for sale – until Heidi falls head over heels for the dreamy ice hockey protégé Lauri Mäntyvaara.
Ice Hockey film by Heidi (2017)
A spin of from the feature film “Thick Lashes of Lauri Mäntyvaara”. Heidi’s fantasy about hockey player Lauri Mäntyvaara is continuously failing. The film studies the encounters of optical and haptic cinema, and the change in the power structures of the cinematic gaze.
MERCY ALL THE WAY (2015)
A group of women working in an unemployment office in a small Finnish town have started to give out sex to outcast young men in order to prevent future school shootings in Finland. Mirja (35) tries to hide, that after spending a night with unemployed Marko (23), she has fallen in love. Saving Finland is at stake.
Whispering in a friend’s mouth (2010)
Finnish title: “Älä kuiskaa ystävän suuhun”. A 10 minute short shot in Summer 2009 – examining the borderline between platonic and romantic love through two linking time levels. Shot on S16mm.
Conflict with a god (2010)
Boyfriend’s religious conflict gets on her nerves. Tanja Heinänen and Ilja Rautsi starring in this little funny film we made at the birth of Kino Euphoria in 2010.
IF I FALL (2007)
“A nordic, but still universal film expressing the search of love in a poetic story of few words. The flawless directing of the film deals with human relations on many levels and with great complexity.”
-Jury’s statement: Uppsala International Short Film Festival Grand Prix 2008
