Yle Movies

The dysfunctional Chinese justice system allows citizens with grievances against their local governments to petition the court to clear or correct the...

Documentary about the Intervision Song Contest in general and the 1980 edition in particular. Focuses on Finland's participation and the shipyard stri...

Part three of the Emialia animation series. Emma, ​​Emilia and Elvira are three little aunts whose only job is to be old. But they want to do importan...

Artist and author Tove Jansson talks about her thoughts and life at home on Tähtitorninmäki in Helsinki and in her cottage in the outer archipelago.

Set in 1920, The Image Makers depicts a private screening at Svensk Filmindustri, where silent-era director Victor Sjöström presents scenes from his a...

A short story about a moped-driving boy who works at his uncle's small gas station in rural Finland.

About a boy, with Meänkieli as his mother tongue, takes his first moped trip on the day he turns 15. He is stopped by local policeman, who also speaks...

Sylwie is 13. One day, her dog accidentally wanders into a neighbouring flat, where Sylwia encounters a priest anointing the sick. She falls in love w...

The final film in The Trilogy of the Sacred and the Satanic, Atman is a spectacular epic across India, all documented on stunning 35mm. When his mothe...

Mire bala kale hin, (which means the girl with the long black hair in Romanes) was the first TV programme ever produced as a childrens program about t...

Finnish telefilm adaptation of Gorky’s famous play, The Lower Depths, by director Mikko Niskanen.

Interwoven with scenes that are meant to grab attention by their stunning composition, this biographical look at Finland's violinist Arto Arsi is not...

This true, astonishing story describes how King Leopold II of Belgium turned Congo into its private colony between 1885 and 1908. Under his control, C...

An interview documentary about Finnish military court sentencing procedures after the Continuation War.

Heavily built young woman Kaisu comes to work in a small grocery store in the countryside, run by a bossy old lady and her tiny and quiet grown-up son...

Portrait of a national icon: iskelmä or popular schlager legend Olavi Virta (1915–1972),as an old, lost and lonely man. When the film was screened fo...

It's almost Christmas but these three people are still on the road. The products don't sell, the car is a wreck and the weather is freezing. Moreover...

Young and active nationalist Aleksander Kesküla makes up his mind to use Lenin, the Bolsheviks' leader, in order to start a revolution in Russia with...