Yle Movies

A comprehensive history of European Jazz, exploring the origins of the US-influenced Jazz clubs after the Second World War, the first steps independen...

A Finnish drama about the short term of Finland's first female prime minister, Anneli Jäätteenmäki.

A hunting team meets before the annual moose hunt. A fatal accident occurs that severely tests the loyalties of those involved.

A portrait of the Finnish filmmaker Rauni Mollberg who made a notable splash on the international festival circuit in 1974 with his feature debut, “Th...

Documentary about the legendary club Lepakko (The Bat) in Finland.

The highway of the title is a 2,000 mile dirt road in Kazakhstan. Along this route, a traveling family circus journeys in their crowded hand-cranked b...

Manical portrait of a small businessman.

A summer in Ostrobothnia, Finland, with the Swedish country and western singer/songwriter and artist Alf Robertson. He grew up in Gamlestaden in Gothe...

"Orango" - prologue to an unfinished opera by Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975),conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen, performed by the Finnish Radio Symphony...

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

Mayor Chrome lays out rules from his precious rule book. Follow our trio trying to adhere to the silly guidelines such as “When ice fishing, everyone...

Sixteen-year-old Tomi trusts no one and does his best to protect his little sister Aino from the dangers of the world. But Aino is changing, fast. Bec...

Mire bala kale hin, (which means the girl with the long black hair in Romanes) was the first TV programme ever produced as a childrens program about t...

In a remote East European town, the evening bells can’t hide the cry of a hungry baby. His father, a street-musician named Baro, is also having a bad...

In the same vein as Meri's other documentations, this one takes advantage of the glasnost policy to discuss the social and ecologic impact of the Rus...

An inward little town in Finland transforms into a melting pot of nationalities, religions and cultures when Finnish Basketball Federation opens the b...

Donetsk is the coal-mining area of Ukraine. Here most people work for low wages in the run down mines, while others make a lot of money. No matter whi...

For the family members of murder victims mourning is often postponed indefinitely. To unlock the trauma and begin the grieving, a method called restor...

Operation Alaska is a fictional documentary and extensive web series based on real American plans and proposals to evacuate Finns to Alaska between 19...

Prison guard falls in love with inmate. She wants him to let her escape.