Leningrad Cowboys: Total Balalaika Show (1993)

Director: Aki Kaurismaki

Finland's Leningrad Cowboys meet the ex-Red Army Choir in this inspired documentary. The Cowboys (a comedy group) claim to be the world's worst rock a... Read more

Letters to Father Jacob (2009)

Director: Klaus Haro

Starring: Heikki Nousiainen, Kaarina Hazard

Newly pardoned from a life prison sentence, bitter and sullen Leila is assigned to work in a secluded parsonage reading and composing letters for Fath... Read more

Moomins and Midsummer Madness (2008)

Director: Maria Lindberg

Starring: Kathleen Fee, Mark Camacho, Richard M Durmont

A tranquil summer day in the Moomin Valley is interrupted by a volcanic eruption. Luckily the Moomin family finds refuge in a strange, floating house,... Read more

Moomins and the Comet Chase (2010)

Director: Maria Lindberg

Starring: Max von Sydow, Mads Mikkelsen, Stellan Skarsgard

One day Moomintroll notices that something strange has happened in the Moomin Valley, everything is grey; not just the sky and the river, but the tre... Read more

Moro No Brasil (2002)

Director: Mika Kaurismaki

Starring: Walter Alfaiate, Grupo Fethxa, Grupo Gleetwtxya, Children Fulni-o

To many of us Brazilian music and the Bossa Nova are one, but in this wonderful documentary Mika Kaurismaki pretty much ignores this genre in favour o... Read more

Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (2010)

Director: Jalmari Helander

Starring: Jorma Tommila, Per Christian Ellefsen, Onni Tommila, Peeter Jakobi, Jonathan Hut...

Terror seizes the Arctic region when a man's reindeer herd is mysteriously slaughtered and his son grows curious about a strange excavation project ta... Read more

Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy - Working with Time (2001)

Director: Thomas Riedelsheimer

Starring: Andy Goldsworthy

In the timeless tradition of "Travelling Birds" and "Koyaanisqatsi", "Rivers and Tides" depicts the magical relationship between art and nature while... Read more

Sauna (2008)

Director: Antti-Jussi Annila

Starring: Ville Virtanen, Tommi Eronen, Viktor Klimento, Sonja Petajajarvi

A transcendental shocker, set in 1595, just as Protestant Sweden and Orthodox Russia have reached an uneasy truce. In the wake of their fighting, Finl... Read more

The Day the Universe Changed (1985)

Starring: James Burke

Presented by veteran BBC historian and science reporter James Burke, this series explores influences of discoveries and shared knowledge and perceptio... Read more

The Fencer (2015)

Director: Klaus Haro

Starring: Mart Avandi, Ursula Ratasepp, Hendrik Toompere

This is touching a 1950s-set drama about love and a man who finds meaning in his life through the children who need him. Endel Nelis is a young man wh... Read more