Catch "Top films from the top of Europe" at the 20th anniversary event, January 5,6, 19 and 20. Finnish films are: 11 a.m. Sunday, January 6: ARMOMURHAAJA / EUTHANIZER and at 4:30 p.m. TUNTEMATON SOTILAS / UNKNOWN SOLDIER 10 a.m. Saturday, January 19: RENDEL: DARK VENGEANCE 7:30 p.m. Sunday, January 20: TUNTEMATON MESTARI / ONE LAST DEAL
THE LUMBERJACK’S BRIDE /KOSKENLASKIJAN MORSIAN A tragic lumberjack rafting accident and the drowning of a young man leads to a rift in a small village, upheaving marriage prospects for the young man’s sister. A silent film accompanied by live music.
THE SONG OF THE SCARLET FLOWER /LAULU TULIPUNAISESTA KUKASTA This 1938 film is the first truly Finnish adaptation of Johannes Linnankoski’s iconic novel about a charming woodsman who drifts from one girl to the next. In Finnish with English subtitles.
TWO OLD LUMBERJACKS /KAKSI VANHAA TUKKIJÄTKÄÄ A classic 1954 film in Finnish with English subtitles.
Loosely based on the Kalevala, Finland’s national epic poem, this 1959 genre-bending film follows a witch who steals the sun in order to spite a community of peaceful loggers who refuse to build her a magic mill. In addition to beautifully colored cinematography, the film features trolls, swans, and sorcery. In Finnish with English subtitles.
ETERNAL ROAD /IKITIE ACROSS BORDERS This film follows the journey of Jussi Ketola, who returns home to Finland from America at the beginning of the Great Depression, hoping to live quietly and farm the land. But his fellow Finns, still raw from the ravages of the Civil War, cannot trust Ketola. In Finnish, English and Russian with […]
ETERNAL ROAD /IKITIE ACROSS BORDERS This 2017 film follows the journey of Jussi Ketola, who returns home to Finland from America at the beginning of the Great Depression, hoping to live quietly and farm the land. But his fellow Finns, still raw from the ravages of the Civil War, cannot trust Ketola. In Finnish, English and Russian […]
View the 2017 remake of a legendary film based on a legendary book as part of the Finlandia University Finnish American Heritage Center’s Nordic Film Series. In Finnish with English subtitles.
The monthly film series presents a Finnish film with English subtitles: It’s been three years since we last met Janne and Inari. Since then, they’ve had a daughter named Lumi. Janne and his friends experience a new adventure, this time on an autumn night. The boys go to a party but end up chasing Lumi […]
Iris is an eight-year-old from Stockholm who finds herself required to spend a summer on the Åland Islands. The adjustment from a colorful city life with her artist mother to a bucolic insular existence with her maritime uncle is the stuff of this charming and splendidly photographed film. In Swedish with English-subtitles.