Kari Väänänen Movies

A week-long glimpse into the wretched existence of Ripa, a long-haired, hard-drinking lug. He is also a filmmaker-wannabee, whose last two projects...

Self-taught philosopher Konsta Pylkkänen guides a group of researchers through Finland's Kainuu wilderness in the hopes of having a...

A young student seeks direction in his life to counterbalance the studies through female adventures.

A young man finds himself in conflict with military order and purpose.

Theater students rehearse their own play, "Freedom," and become entangled in the depths of the play's themes in their personal lives.

After his wife leaves him, a man becomes obsessed getting his family back together by buying an old house.

Anna Kelanen is an ex-model, who just has been released from prison. She thinks back on her life, when she was a rather successful model, and on the...

The story of a simple and good-natured rocker in his late thirties who has a homemade electric guitar and loving parents.

A self-loving fictional autobiography of author Kari Hotakainen.

Based on Lauri Viita's fairy tale. In Kukunor, two trolls, Kukunor and Kalahari, read books and travel the world in their dreams.

Story of Jari, a misfit and coward who, after hitting his girlfriend escapes to a fish factory in Norway. There he meets Heikki, who works for the...

When a new man appears in Tuula's life, Jorma does not tolerate the idea and begins to yearn back for his ex-wife. They drift into a situation where...

Fed up with the materialism of Christmas, Santa runs away to New Zealand for a summer holiday. When two Kiwi kids figure out who he is, they have to...

Eric, a successful Finnish conductor, has time to relax by the ocean after work in Rio de Janeiro. He finds it hard to forget an encounter with an...

In the third instalment of the franchise, Janne embarks on an epic hike, a journey of self-discovery. His dreams of a tranquil retreat into nature...

The mechanic Jack tries to get rid of his criminal background.

A man fakes his own suicide in order to see how his close ones react.

A shocking crime forces a man to re-evaluate his life, only to find that going straight is more complicated than he imagined. Ali is a low-level...

Set during the Second World War in the Finnish war zone.

Documentary about the life of Finnish actor Matti Pellonpää.