Matti Ijäs

Merry Christmas is a comical interpretation of the traditional Christmas gospel set in a modern-day Helsinki

An asphalt contractor, who has sacrificed his life to make a profit, finds himself in a financial dead-end. The ever gentle-minded road engineer ...

Vaarala, a reserved romantic photographer, has an odd artistic vision of loneliness: he takes serial photos of an empty park bench in remote ...

A comedy about lecturer Sakkas, who devotes himself to history in order to find meaning in the world. What happens when a man’s frozen ...

Karin and Tuula’s family happiness is put to the test after Karin ends up on unemployment benefits.

An arctic comedy about the childlike, sincere Kauko and his desire to grow up. It is a story about two brothers who accidentally end up in each ...

Dreams perimeter Matti Ijäksen has written and directed, praised to the skies domestic film, which is in addition to starring always convincing ...

Middle-aged Late is building a fence in his family home for a summer break, but he falls in love with his daughter’s new friend, 16-year ...

Two 9-year-old boys, Jontti and Länki, grow up in a Finnish seaside town in the 1960s. Länki’s biggest dream is to run away on a ship to ...

Half-senile Ossi and his wife travel to celebrate Ossi’s 75th birthday at an old people’s home where most of their friends are ...

A middle-aged woman wants a child and starts to look for a suitable father when she doesn’t succeed in the plan with her husband.

An unemployed actor falls in love with a theater director, who gives him work. Both of them are in relationships, and their little lies gradually ...

The relationship between a priest’s wife and the renovator crackles with passion. While the rectory terrace is being restored, there is a ...

Manical portrait of a small businessman.

Like it or not, almost anyone who has met a really serious poet finds that they have something about them which sets them apart from other ...

Detective Karisto releases Auno ‘Räpsy’ Pirilä from prison, who in turn has to calve his childhood friend Börje from criminal ...

Viltteri, a balding guy in his thirties living in rural northern Finland, is hopelessly clueless about his new role as a married man and the ...

Anders flees his drug debts to his former home village. Once there, he must come to terms with his past.

An ageing wrestler and circus strongman is put in an institution located somewhere in a world of its own.

After the death of an old bandmate, the surviving musicians head to the funeral.

The story of Ailu’s summer, which he spends on an island with his trumpet and hedgehog for company while his father is at work. His ...

Aspiring young comedian Hepi rides a moped and sleeps in cars left at a garage for repair. He joins a group of older but equally bad comedians ...

Juuso, Late, and Pyry return from military service to their small village in the Finnish countryside. Finding work is difficult there, so Juuso ...