Santtu Karhu - the Karelian Rocker

The preservation of the Karelian culture. About how the evacuated Finnish Karels have acclimatized themselves to the indigenous people and how the Karelian culture has been preserved during the ages of change. Reportage and interviews with ordinary people and experts made during the summer of 1968. Faces of the Finnish Karelian people. Images of faces that reproduce the culture and the history of the territory.

Finland’s first nature documentary. The filmmakers’ expedition leads them all the way to the Åland Islands and the Karelian Isthmus.

A documentary film about the Karelo-Finnish SSR.

Veneh is a poetic depiction of transition and the end of childhood. It tells of a young Karelian bride, who is about to leave her home. She is prepared for her wedding, which in Karelia was a long process. The movie follows traditional rituals, colliding the genres of ethnographic and drama film with music and dance video styles.

Returning to the house where his family was brutally murdered during the war, "the man who refuses to die" dismantles it, loads it on a truck, and is determined to rebuild it somewhere safe in their honor. When the commander who killed his family comes back hellbent on finishing the job, a relentless, eye-popping cross-country chase ensues.

Anni, a daughter of a wealthy family and used to secure life, falls in love with Veikko, a war invalid of the Continuation War. Anni leaves her past behind her and starts leading the life of a pioneer, in the wild forests of northern Karelia, in a settlement farm. After a rosy start, the fate crushes Anni’s dreams and her love for Veikko is put to a test.

Late 40’s after the war. Strange languaged and religioned immigrants fleeing from Karelia region are hated by Finns in the countryside. 19-year old Anni is living her life wanting to forget the war and hostility surrounding her. Falling in love with a man who hasn’t left fighting, threatens Anni’s whole family’s future and hope for mutual forgiveness..

Miila has found out that her grandmother Marja was born in Karelia. The subject has a close community on social media in Finland, which Miila wants to be a part of, so she decides to shoot a social media videos about Karelianness and her grandmother. The plan fails, and Miila doesn't get the visibility she craves. Instead, she learns what Karelianness is really about in their family.

In the far North, a fisherwoman lives in silence with her man. Around them lies a night landscape of snow and wrecked ships. Suddenly, her son returns out of nowhere.

A film trilogy consisting of Veneh (2016), Lindu (2021), and Ilmu (2023). The first ever films made in the Karelian language.

Ilmu is the third and final part in this Karelian art film trilogy. This non profit series of films are the first ever films to be made in the Karelian language. These films depict the transition of different life stages in the light of ancient Karelian ritualism and the central role of women in Karelian transition rituals. Ilmu reveals the mythology and traditions associated with birth.

LINDU is the second in a Karelian film trilogy. The film series are the first ever to be made in the Karelian language. ’Veneh’, the opening film premiered in 2016. They are a non-profit, educational series of ethnographic art films. The films depict the theme of transition in different stages of life, shrouded in ancient Karelian ritualism. ’Lindu’ describes mythology and traditions associated with death.

Ten-year-old girl Olei lives with her grandparents and her only friend – Kaunikki the cow in a withering Karelian village on the shores of the White Sea. Suddenly, the girl's grandfather passes away. While her grandmother, gripped by the bitterness of loss, conducts funeral rituals, Olei seeks solace in Kaunikki’s company. But on the funeral eve Kaunikki disappears, and the only person, who could help find her, is dead.

The raft man Manuel Jacaré was swallowed by the sea when Orson Welles was filming It's All True in 1942. The fact evokes memories of the dictatorship of the Estado Novo, of World War II, of Ceará fishermen's struggle for labor rights and housing in their traditional space - target of real estate speculation.

1. Wasteland 2. And The Dance Goes On 3. Garden Of Delight 4. Let Sleeping Dogs Die 5. Serpents Kiss 6. Over The Hills And Far Away 7. The Crystal Ocean 8. Sacrilege 9. Stay With Me 10. Wake (RSV) 11. Blood Brother 12. 1969

This 60 minute film follows The Mission through the second half of 1989. It shows them recording their album Carved In Sand, touring Scotland and headlining the Reading Festival. This is not a documentary - it shows a modern rock band at work in their own unique way. There is over 35 minutes of the band's music on the soundtrack, some of it unique to this film.

This film documents The Mission's 1988 tour of South America, on and off-stage in Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay.

1. The Crystal Ocean 2. Evangeline 3. Hymn (For America) 4. (Slave To) Lust 5. Garden Of Delight 6. Severina 7. Breathe Me In 8. Butterfly On A Wheel 9. Belief 10. Sacrilege 11. Wasteland 12. Daddy's Going To Heaven Now 13. Like A Child Again 14. Beyond The Pale 15. Serpents Kiss 16. Deliverance 17. Tower Of Strength

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Leeds Trinity, 26th November, 2014.