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A female fashion model Anni Stark (played by Tiina Björkman) takes leave from the fashion business and goes to Finland's Lappland (a wilderness region in Northern Finland, better known as the home of Santa Claus) for a vacation. Little does she know that there's a totally lunatic bunch of local hillbillies living in a nearby farmhouse. The plot thickens as one of the residents begins to harass Anni, who is left alone in the wilderness with only her dog to protect her. Too bad for her that her dog turns out to have divided loyalties..

There is civil war in Finland. Between whites vs reds. A woman soldier of reds is captured by the whites. She is ordered to be executed.

A historian in a futuristic dystopian world is researching the death of a free-spirited model who died under mysterious circumstances. He finds Saara's identical double Kisse and convinces her to re-enact Saara's life and death for TV.

Aimless Mårten, almost thirty, spends his days in an unspecified hospital job and his nights around Helsinki's bars. He meets edgy and distant Ursula who still goes to high school, yet has a young son whom she pretty much ignores. Mårten and Ursula drift into a get-rich scheme concocted by Mårten's eccentric friend Harri, involving cocaine smuggling and taking the trio to Copenhagen. Bad idea.

An adolescent boy's life is slipping into a vicious cycle of crime and school.

A confused movie about children in a world from which adults have disappeared.

Mika's (Ilkka Koivula) mother marries a man who is getting out of the jail. At the beginning everything seems to be all right. Mika leaves Oulu, an industrial city up in Northern Finland, to study in the capital, Helsinki. He does very well with his studies and also begins a relationship with the girl he knew already back in Oulu. Meanwhile the new husband reveals his true self - and all of a sudden things get very serious.

In the summer of 1944, reconnaissance soldier Jaakko returns to his family and his girlfriend Anna for a break from stress to his home village in Kainuu, which is protected by a military unit led by Sergeant Tolvanen from partisans. In the hometown, Jaakko's former childhood friend Janne is also around, but for what purpose?

A shy Finn boards a wrong plane and ends up on a beach holiday instead of skiing.

Young advertising executive Vatanen suddenly quits his job and his whole life in Helsinki, and decides to spend a while in the Finnish wilderness. A wounded hare hit by a car becomes his travel companion. Together they find reclusion in the Finnish Lapland, soon to be disturbed by a noisy group of foreign tourists and their pretentious Finnish hosts. When the hare gets ill and needs to see a vet, Vatanen must return to the city and finally face the choice between his new and former life.

A story of a rebellious girl and her brother in an Icelandic fishing village.

Baron Wilhelm von Tandem, CEO of the Tandem Corporation, gets mixed up with a spitting image of himself, an innocent country boy Kalle. Both characters conveniently amnesiac, they start living each other's lives and dating each other's girlfriends, succeeding in their new roles better than in their original ones. Level-headed Kalle soon spots the bad guys who are after the Baron's money, and the Baron brings innovative ideas to the countryside.

On her way home from an evening shift at a men's clothing store, Saara Nevanen is raped by a man whom she recognizes as her regular but eccentric customer, Antti Kaironen. The doctor and policemen question Saara in an insensitive manner and she breaks down with guilt. When the court releases the perpetrator for lack of evidence, Saara's aggressive brother Jari talks her mild-mannered husband Sakari into a self-made revenge plot. Armed with two rifles, Jari and Sakari take matters into their own hands.

Helinä is tired of her monotonous life revolving around her young children, while her husband is away on business. At the hair salon she meets other frustrated housewives. Together the find an attractive solution to the problem.

In this gloomy scenario about Finland's upcoming membership in the European Union, the country has become a poor peripheral area plagued by energy shortages and civil wars. Escaping the city to his summer cottage with his children and a lady next door, a divorced university teacher is forced to pick up a young delirious woman from the roadside. He soon falls in love with her, only to find out she is a sought-after deserter from a violent guerilla army.

Man leaves his factory job and sells everything to buy an earth mover and start his own business, travelling from place to place with his wife and child. There is not enough work and he is eventually forced to emigrate after many hardships.

A young priest returns from America to work in an old Helsinki neighbourhood with idyllic wooden houses. The shy but handsome bachelor is assigned the duty of marriage counseling but is soon overwhelmed by the ladies' romantic interest directed at himself. Trying to please everybody, he also creates confusion by taking both sides in the issue of whether to preserve the neighbourhood or to go along with the modernisation plans offered by property developers.

Sleazy impostor, then dance-band singer Pertti Ylermi Lindgren merrily re-enacts some of his real-life engagements to 76 different women in the late 1960s. After posing as an aristocrat, educationalist, Italian bank executive, or priest, "The Count" always manages to escape with the bride's or her father's money just when the wedding bells start to chime.

The Kiljunen family wins a holiday to the city. Helsinki will never be the same again.

Olli Ruusunen is the data-expert that proposes the serious measures that will save the company from an economic collapse. His drastic savings programs forces the board to resign. Olli must go underground.

An elderly man is hospitalized after an assault in the park by a group of young hooligans. The leader of the gang ends up in the same hospital room as the victim. Both are fighting their own internal war and both need someone to talk to.