Jouko Aaltonen Movies

The Kiljunen family wins a holiday trip to Helsinki and the city will never be the same again.

In 1917 Finnish explorer Sakari Pälsi travelled to Northeastern Siberia carrying a cinematograph and 13,000 feet of film with him. The journey...

Gravity researcher Erik Rankamaa dies in his prime in 1970. He is been deep frozen and gets defrosted in 1999, while people of his time are still...

A documentary on the executions that took place during and after the Finnish civil war in 1918.

A movie about two women who are mothers to the same child, and a child who belongs to two different worlds.

Helsinki, Forever is a montage film about the city of Helsinki by the award-winning Finnish film director and academic Peter von Bagh. The film draws...

A Finnish adaptation of Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

That Kiljunen familys sets out find their two missing family members, who have been sent to Tampere by the Matalamäki boarding school for...

In the summer of 1944, long-range reconnaissance soldier Jaakko Tulivaara returns to his family and girlfriend Anna for a break in his home village...

A little Nenets girl Neko is taken against her will from her home to a boarding school in a remote Russian village. Forced to adapt to a foreign...

Olli Ruusunen attended a special training course in the US, where his brain capacity has been developed to the extreme.

Documentary about Finnish film theaters - about their past, disappearance and future. And at the same time universal story how cinema is undeniably...

Documentary about the great cultural transformation of Helsinki, Finland, in the early 1980's. The birth of new sub-cultures, art galleries and...

Once upon a time there was a large Finnish company called Nokia that manufactured the world’s best and most innovative mobile phones....

The story of Agit Prop, communist band established in 1970.

A documentary about two cities, Turku past and present. They are united by a constant struggle over who owns the city and how and under what...

Ten groups of kids from various parts of Finland, aged between 12 and 15, improvise an episode each based on one of the Bible's Ten Commandments.

How to Fix the World? is a comprehensive and informative documentary about direct action in the 1990s and 2000s, directed by Jouko Aaltonen. In the...

A documentary film about punk that lives from generation to generation.