Catalogue des films de « Mervi Junkkonen »

In 1917, Finnish explorer Sakari Pälsi travelled to northeastern Siberia, carrying a cinematograph and 13,000 feet of film with him. The journey gave birth to a unique documentary film and a travelogue. A hundred years later director Kira...

Julia and Johanna live in the ghetto-like highrise flats of Rosengard in Malmö, Sweden; one of Northern Europe’s largest immigrant estates. They have been inseparable for as long as they can remember, curled up beside each other at night. They...

Aarne, eighty-six years old, lives by himself on a small farm near Oulunsalo airport. He doesn´t want to move to an old people´s home though his knees are weak and joints stiff with arthritis. Wild cats that roam his garden by the dozen keep him...

"The one and only social responsibility of business is to make profits" was a guiding principle for Milton Friedman, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics. It is the principle that appears at the start of Thomas Balmès’ film, serving as an...

Saana is a child of nature, a strongly emotional and deeply poetic person, who draws her vitality and inspiration from the environment. Her dreams of a life in Nature’s bosom are shattered when she falls ill. The limitations of her body go...