Jouko Aaltonen Movies

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...

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 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.

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

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

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

Return to Taiga.

Over the past 60 years, Erkki Rissanen has collected more than a million bottles from the streets of Tornio, and through his selfless cleaning...

A Finnish adaptation of Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

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

Ayed is a young Palestinian psychologist living in the embargoed territory of the Gaza Strip. Young Freud in Gaza follows him over the course of two...

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...

For the first time in its history, Finland became an autonomous state when it broke away from a crumbling Russian empire in 1917. Witnessing the...

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...

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

Taiga Nomads is a film series about the Evenki (previously the Tungus), a nomadic people scattered all over eastern Siberia, and living under harsh...