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1) Heavy trip
Language
Finnish
Description
In this offbeat comedy from Finland, Turo is stuck in a small village where the best thing is his life is being the lead vocalist for the amateur metal band Impaled Rektum. The only problem? He and his bandmates have practiced for twelve years without playing a single gig. The guys get a surprise visitor from Norway, the promoter for a huge heavy metal music festival, and decide it's now or never. They steal a van, a corpse, and even a new drummer...
Language
Finnish
Description
After a man is beaten and declared dead, he suddenly sits up and walks out of the hospital on his own. Determined to start his life over in a new town and unable to remember his name or anything about his past, he becomes involved with a mother and her sons. Everything seems good until his past comes back to haunt him.
Language
Finnish
Description
Shadows in paradise: An episode in the life of Nikander, a garbage man, involving the death of a co-worker, an affair and much more.
Ariel: A coal miner takes a road trip looking for a way out of financial despair and criminal trouble. He finds unexpected love instead.
The match factory Girl: Iris has a dead-end job in a match factory, lives with her dour and forbidding parents, and her social life is a disaster. Finally she decides that enough...
Series
Criterion collection volume 922
Language
Finnish
Description
"This wry, melancholic comedy from Aki Kaurismäki, a response to the ongoing global refugee crisis, follows two people searching for a place to call home. Khaled (Sherwan Haji), a displaced Syrian, lands in Helsinki as a stowaway; meanwhile, middle-aged Finnish salesman Wikström (Sakari Kuosmanen) leaves his wife and his job and buys a conspicuously unprofitable restaurant. Khaled is denied asylum but decides not to return to Aleppo-- and the paths...
8) Road north
Language
Finnish
Description
Timo gets the surprise of his life one day after arriving home only to find a homeless drunk asleep at his front door. The man, Leo, makes the claim to be Timo's long-lost father who left the country when Timo was three. Leo has returned to bestow his legacy upon his only son, and to re-unite him with his estranged family. Creating more questions than answers, Leo proves to be his son's alter ego of sorts, eventually prying him from his comfort zone...
9) Screwed
Language
Finnish
Description
Seventeen-year-old Miku is trying to come to terms with his sexuality and find his place in the world. After his parents find out he threw a wild party while they were away, he is forced to spend the summer with them at their cottage. A flirtation soon develops with Elias, the boy next door. As they spend the summer escaping their dysfunctional families, a relationship quickly blossoms,