Anu Kuivalainen

Documentary film about love, relationships and sexuality of elderly men and women. Five couples show how intimacy is still strong even though age and body has changed.

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The film in its entirety is set in the forest: the protagonists sleep under spruce trees, make art, hunt with their dogs, hold techno raves in the summer night and earn their living as forest owners. As the film progresses, one gains a more versatile view of the forest as a biological organism, a spiritual retreat for humans, a source of inspiration and as a complete living environment supporting us all.

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Aranda is a film about the thirsty man's thirst for knowledge. Aranda, a marine research vessel, is like a spacecraft sailing in its own universe. This is a film about people and their passion for understanding the ocean.

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Documentary about the nurses' strike in Finland on autumn 2007.

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Pacifistic art student Uuno F. Inkinen (1913–2003) went to war and kept a diary of his experiences. Nearing the end of his life, he felt it was his duty to tell the younger generation what war was really about. After all, nobody talked about it in his youth. In Anu Kuivalainen’s documentary, the events witnessed by young Inkinen are recreated for the audience and interpreted by actor Jari Virman.

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Story of a single mother, released from prison.

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The director documents the events leading to a reunion with her estranged father.

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The director documents the events leading to a reunion with her estranged father.

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10 Letters to the Future is a documentary film that is a mid-term review in a world of intertwined crises. It is a puzzle, a kaleidoscope that enables a multi-voiced debate in society. The collectively made film was conceived in the era of the Coronavirus, when the reality of global anomalies pierced everything we took for granted. It was a time that caused many to reassess their lives in a new light. What happened to us and what kind of future do we want to be heading towards? Virus researcher, climate activist, political scientist and anti-vaccine protesters see the future challenges facing our society in a very different light. As the virus takes over the world, schoolchildren start collecting letters to be encapsulated in a wooden coffin built by students to be opened more than 50 years from now. The main characters in the documentary write their letters, addressing their loved ones or something unknown in the future.

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Documentary film about love, relationships and sexuality of elderly men and women. Five couples show how intimacy is still strong even though age and body has changed.

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The film in its entirety is set in the forest: the protagonists sleep under spruce trees, make art, hunt with their dogs, hold techno raves in the summer night and earn their living as forest owners. As the film progresses, one gains a more versatile view of the forest as a biological organism, a spiritual retreat for humans, a source of inspiration and as a complete living environment supporting us all.

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Aranda is a film about the thirsty man's thirst for knowledge. Aranda, a marine research vessel, is like a spacecraft sailing in its own universe. This is a film about people and their passion for understanding the ocean.

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