Aalto University Movies

A world-weary reality TV host (Alma Pöysti) is given one last chance by her producer. Accompanied by a cynical filming crew, she goes to find...

Sari is a high school principal with high standards but no idea of what to do with them. In the teachers' lounge her nitpicky style hasn't won her...

A boss invites an underling and his family for dinner.

The summer ahead is long and hot but the burden of shame from the past is haunting Joonas, 24, and driving him to solitude. A sudden phone call...

In this short, shown in the student category at IDFA, the compelling, dramatised story of a pedophile is told. He hasn’t opened up about his...

Hound tells the story of a young child who is desperately trying to survive in a dark, abandoned city. Huge dog as her only comfort the duo not only...

On the basis of anonymous telephone calls made to a helpline for teenagers, On Hold makes us hear a dissonant speech. Recounted here by older people,...

Tommi, a shy hotel cleaning boy, cleans the room 409 night after night. To him it seems like every one of the hotel guests has found a connection...

“A person has to have something to live for”. Pentti is a 94-year-old widower who steps into a new phase in his life having found...

A self-ironic portrayal of a young woman and her secret cigarettes.

In this warm-hearted puppet animation documentary, we get to know the filmmaker’s 54-year-old mother Maija through her phone calls. We see how...

We tend to see our geographic map as static. On the contrary, this work full of subtlety shows us that life in an archipelago is by nature affected...

Beautiful and melancholic movie from Finland. Love is strong. Home of the presidents. Let’s smile.