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- In Shinto religion, in order to make something sacred, man will tie a rope around it. This sacred quality of the tying can be applied also to Kinbaku, which is an erotic, spiritual, artistic connection between the people who are doing it
- Charles Sobhraj. The most prolific felon, serial killer, conman and Don Juan of the modern age.
- The year is 2000 and investors are going crazy about a new mobile phone company called Riot Entertainment. Many high profile companies, like Nokia, invest millions on this unknown firm. Two years later, when all the money has been spent and the company is bankrupt, the fun is over. What happened?
- The documentary describes the Estonian Ilon Wikland's childhood and growth towards adolescent and independence. As a lonely war refugee in Sweden she encounters her coming employer and workmate for the following 40 years, Astrid Lindgren.
- A documentary depicting the history of modern body modification from its start in the early 1940s until its worldwide breakthrough in the 90s.
- In the documentary we consecutively follow from idea to realization how the Finnish glass sculpture Hans-Christian Berg creates a large sphere made out of hand-blown parabolic mirrors for an exhibition in a medieval castle on an island in the Swedish archipelago. In this fast-paced and jazz mooded film we encounter the inspiration, anguish and honest devotion of an artist who is working towards fulfillment of his dreams. Eventually we learn how a well-designed and intelligently placed glass sculpture can even reflect the continuous paranoia of mankind.
- 'The Blob Job' is the first safety game designed to teach people about illegal drugs, violence, sex, fire and traffic accidents while playing an adventure game. In 'The Blob Job', five synthetic humans, Nanoblobs, are sent on a simple errand to deliver a super secret formula to the patents office. They all disappear. You are Ridley, a lowly security officer at NanoBlob Corporation. Finding the Nanoblobs is the only way to secure you from getting blobbed.
- Mathias sings in the Cantores Minores boy choir and dreams about a career as an opera star. Isak is a goalkeeper in Djurgården IF in Sweden and wants to reach NHL. Oleg dances ballet in Estonia and has sights set on the Bolshoi theatre. But what do these 12 year old boys read and what is their take on books? In the documentary Brave Boys we will see how they experience works like Huckleyberry Finn and Robinson Crusoe and how they talk to child book authors like Ulf Stark.
- The Helsinki based television channel ATV started broadcasting in 1999. The company filed for bankruptcy in 2003. During this time period it changed the way Finns watched television. Irrevocably.
- The heavyweight fighter Robert Helenius has his goal set on the Boxing World Champion title. He faces stronger opponents and injuries make his journey more difficult. The documentary follows Helenius life from 2010 to 2014.
- The Finnish heavyweight boxer Robert Helenius' life as a professional boxer for his German team in Berlin during the time period 2009-2010.
- Sandra and Saga, both 14 years old, write a song about how their class used to bully a girl. They perform it together with their class and we learn in more detail about how and why they bully certain pupils in their school. 13 years old Mathias explains and demonstrates how he was bullied for more than five years in his previous school. He performs his song Expression of Hate together with an old hard rock band, which has made music to his lyrics. In this documentary we also learn what teachers, principals and a reputed curator have to say about school bullying.
- The Scandinavian Carnegie Art Award is one of the biggest prize money awards for artists in the world. It has traditionally been given to painters and photographers. The Carnegie Art Award 2006 included also for the first time an artist solely known for her video artistry, namely Petra Lindholm from Finland, who won the 3rd prize of 400 000 SEK for her film Until. In the documentary Three years of melancholia we meet on a very personal and intimate level the creator of an exceptionally sensitive and openly sentimental video art untraditional for today's contemporary video artists. We also learn what Scandinavian gallery owners, critics and museum directors think of Petra Lindholm's art and of video art in general. The documentary also introduces us to some of Petra's central friends and family members. The film unfolds in particular the background and inspiration sources to the art films made by Petra during the years 2002-2005.
- A visually playful documentary with child book authors, illustrators and researchers discussing and analyzing fairy tales.
- Today we are exposed to more than 1000% more ad messages than we were ten years ago. Digital Signage takes this development to a psychotic level, as it rapidly creates a world where we eventually will be covered in total by digital ads. Representatives from the world's biggest out door marketing companies as well as pioneering digital signage players explain in this documentary what their businesses are up to and what the future will look like. Marketing and media researchers expand the debate to concern also thoughts on the content and artistic side of ads. Limits for provocation and moral in ads are ventured with opinions on the extreme Oliver Toscani pictures and Hollywood stars campaigning against poverty in Africa. A video artist with her works shown in between ads on giant out door screens in Tokyo takes part in the discussion. Her ads for forgiveness, which show a series of psychotic women breaking down, add a harsh contrast to the rhetoric of the billion dollars ad industry.
- James Man, a mystic grand master in Kung Fu from Hong Kong takes us on a journey across China, which shows us a side of Chinese martial arts previously unknown to the West so far. We meet a world of Kung Fu that turns out to be totally absurd, sinister and mad. In this unique road movie documentary, which is as much shocking as comic in character, Chinese martial arts reveals its true sensational face.
- Combustion was the first chemical reaction that man put to use. In the art of lighting fires he discovered a way of protecting himself from the cold and danger. Today we live in highly developed information societies thanks to the energy that the combustion processes produce in power plants and engines. But while combustion benefits us it threatens our existence by the damage it does to our atmosphere. In order to combat this threat we must learn to understand the chemical processes in combustion. The knowledge about combustion that we now possess comes as a result of man's lengthy and tenacious attempt to understand Chemistry in Flames and Fire.
- The Finnish freelance dancer Elias Edstrom travels to China to study Peking Opera art at the most prestigious Peking Opera school in the world, National Academy of Chinese Art.
- The Isle of Barra, situated at Southwestern tip of Hebrides, is an isolated place with a mysterious magnetism. The film depicts everyday life on this remote island where traditional tasks such as fishing and crafting are carried out. We are captured by the fairy tales and the Celtic folklore of Barra, and the dreamlike beauty of the landscape. The recurrence of symbols, colors and signs have given a poetic quality to this impressionistic documentary film.
- A Woody Allen & Spike Lee inspired documentary following the underground porcelain sculptor Kim Simonsson as he lands on The Big Apple to meet some of the leading American players of the art business since the 1960's.
- A documentary about the uncontrolled violence and sexual abuse in the Soviet Army barracks. Every year in the Soviet Union hundreds of men of 18-20 years old begin a 2-3 year service in the Soviet Army. Every conscript must take the military oath. 1986-1989 more than 15000 conscripts died during their military service. This number does not include the 14000 Soviet soldiers that died in Afghanistan 1979-1989.
- Mathias wants to become a rock star. He writes a song according to advices offered by Mountain's Leslie West and Accept's David Reece, and travels to Stockholm to perform it with the Shock Tilt band.
- The visually and verbally playful documentary contains a message for grown-ups.
- A documentary about four well-educated men of varying ages (25-55 years), who share and discuss their sudden unemployment with each other on board a sales boat in the Finnish archipelago.
- This documentary follows the concept of the groundbreaking 1974 movie Emmanuelle, through to its release, its cultural impact, and the large amount of sequels and impersonations.