Illume Movies

Five years in the making, based on six lengthy interviews filmed on six different locations in Saint Petersburg, we meet an outspoken artist who...

A sensitive and intimate portrait of Ivanna, a nomadic reindeer herder in the Russian Arctic and mother of five small kids. Ivanna is forced to...

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 film about three Russian prisoners for life.

Many men in the world in order to support their families have to leave families. Our characters go J the North as shift w3ockers and produce gas....

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

This documentary follows a bustrip from Tallinn to Kaliningrad. A route that was so common in the Soviet times now passes through 4 different...

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

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

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

A documentary film about Martta Koskinen, the last executed woman in Finland during the war in 1943. Martta was a Seamstress who lived in Helsinki...

Peter von Bagh takes us on a trip to his homeland and Oulu, a small Finnish town, tracing the turbulent changes it has undergone in the 20th century....

Strangers in the Dark is an experimental film about how light pollution makes a glow-worm’s love life a living hell. Combining different...

The documentary follows Finnish MPs in spring 2008 during committee debates on a bill raising health‑care and daycare fees. Over several...

During the Continuation War, there were dozens of POW camps in Finland. About the third of 70,000 prisoners died during the first year of war. Most...

"Himmlers Kantele Player" - about Finnish student, who decides to leave University of Sorbonne and walk from Paris to Helsinki in the spring of...

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...

Sweep is a road movie to memory, a realization of the need to review footsteps and past events which build myths. The camera gazes at the spaces...