Teemu Nikki is a Finnish self-taught director, screenwriter and producer. His first feature film, Euthanizer (2017) was selected as Finland's official Oscar entry for the 2019 Academy Awards. His third feature film, The Blind Man That Didn't Want To See Titanic (2021) was selected for Venice Film Festival's Orizzonti Extra section. Nikki has also written and directed numerous short films and TV series.
Middle-aged sisters Taina and Pirkko are famous for their Finnish farmhouse ale called “sahti”. The third sister, Päivi, is getting married, and she asks her sisters if they can make 100 liters of sahti for the wedding. Unfortunately, it’s too good not to drink it. The sisters wake up in a horrible hangover and realize they have drunk it all. They have 24 hours to find 100 liters of good sahti, or they will lose all the respect.
Release Date:2025-03-28
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Snot and Splash travel to their grandmother's house in the small town of Mouthwash for a winter holiday. Once there, they discover that everything is a little off in what used to be a very ordinary town. The strangest thing is that holes are disappearing from the town. Snot and Splash set out to investigate and manage to get on the trail of a local dentist, Migrén Junior. However, the investigation is in danger of failing when messy Snot and diligent Splash get into an argument with each other. How can Mouthwash be restored and the holes put back in place if the boys can't work together? The only way to restore the world is for the brothers to work together.
Release Date:2024-01-19
Department:Production
Job:Executive Producer
Vote Count:7
The cheapest drivers in the hearse business, gambling addict Risto Kivi and his friend Arto Niska, an 85% brainless man, have found themselves in a situation where everything has gone wrong and a fresh start is needed.
Release Date:2023-09-22
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:14
Tuulikki has a problem. She is in the throes of young love, and the world outside her window is vibrant and inviting. But her mother disagrees, not wanting to let Tuulikki out of her sight. Tuulikki fights back, but nothing seems to be making a difference. Finally, the mother-daughter relationship escalates when the circumstances prove too much for both of them.
Release Date:2022-11-18
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
Release Date:2022-01-27
Department:Writing
Job:Original Series Creator
Episode Count:8
Jaakko and Sirpa have never met face to face, but talk on the phone every day. When Jaakko hears news about Sirpa's declining health, he decides to go meet her in another city. It's not the easiest decision, because he's blind and paralyzed from the chest down - and he has to make the journey alone. To get there, Jaakko must rely on the help of five strangers. What could go wrong?
Release Date:2021-09-10
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Character:Dog walker
Vote Count:42
Hanna teams up with her sister and counterculture friends to create a parody romance on Instagram between herself and young actor Ekku. Hanna starts living a crowd-pleasing love story for the public, only to find herself tangled up in the unresolved past with her “you were never my boyfriend” friend Lasse, who also happens to be the real-life co-writer and cinematographer of Fucking with Nobody. Fiction and auto-fiction crash and melt into each other, as writer-director Hannaleena Hauru plays the lead role of an ever-single film director Hanna.
Release Date:2021-06-11
Character:Cameo Tampereen elokuvajuhlien bileissä
Vote Count:15
There are enough love and surprises in Maria's relationships. And no wonder, because she has a different man for each day of the week. Maria meets Juho and falls in love, but unfortunately there are not eight days in a week.
Release Date:2021-01-31
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:8
Vote Count:1
Mervi is a gay girl living in the hipster quarters of Helsinki. She has been together with Kata for a year, and now they are encouraged by the circumstances to come out from closet. When they do, Mervi realises that she is not the only one in her family with secrets – her parents have been living in an open-bisexual-swinger-relationship for 20 years. On the other hand Kata is pretty surprised that she might be living with a hetero girl that once was dating a neo-nazi. And the ex-boy friend cannot swallow that Mervi is now with a person both of wrong color, and sex. The real threat appears when Kata’s parents arrive from Berlin and the local skinhead chief finds out that a black muslim celebrity politician has arrived to town.
Release Date:2020-10-09
Department:Production
Job:Executive Producer
Vote Count:12
Pasi returns to his childhood town, asked to reconfigure the local plywood factory. With a child on the way with his upper-class wife, Pasi sees an opportunity – this is his ticket to climb the professional ladder in the company. On arrival, he bumps into his childhood friend Janne, who works in the factory he is about to downsize. Pasi begins to struggle with the fact that he is supposed to care for the profits – not for the people.
Release Date:2020-09-11
Character:Media Trainer
Vote Count:16
Isolated is an antology of short films made by seven Finnish film directors during the covid-19 pandemic. The films are about encountering oneself in isolation. People feel loneliness and it erupts in absurd ways. Family members witness unexpected reactions during the crisis.
Release Date:2020-07-19
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:1
A quiet staircase of an ordinary office building. Two colleagues, Markku, an older accountant, and Eeva, younger HR manager are heading down the stairs, one after another. It turns out that earlier that day, Eeva has had to tell Markku that he has been fired from the company after many years. Markku is bitter and full of rage. Then something unordinary happens.
Release Date:2019-12-21
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:3
A tale of hate with no justifiable purpose: dry, cold winters, smoking highway dust, apartment buildings on the horizon, and VOLVO S40 leather seats.
Release Date:2019-09-26
Character:Kebab King
Kalervo, a bullied, downtrodden white-collar man whom nobody takes seriously, receives an unexpected gift from Annukka. A gift which Kalervo soon realizes has the power to change his life. The bill is due, and payback never tasted sweeter.
Release Date:2019-05-24
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:6
Cleaning woman is cleaning and finds herself in an unexpected situation.
Release Date:2018-09-27
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Character:Katariina Ohtola
Vote Count:3
Pony and Birdboy tells a story of seven-year-old girl Pony, who doesn’t want to go to school, and big-mouthed Birdboy who has solution to all possible problems. Humoristic family-film Pony and Birdboy is partly based on Veera Salmi’s popular children’s book The Book of Pony and Birdboy, which rich humor and anarchist hustle have brought the book as a favorite of children.
Release Date:2018-08-03
Character:Roskakuski
Vote Count:2
Two brothers battle in a ski-fishing competition. They try to win the heart of the woman they both are in love with.
Release Date:2018-03-13
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:1
Euthanizer tells the story of a mechanic who euthanises sick and old pets as a side job. Despite the grim work, he has a soft spot for the animals. Trouble stirs when the owner of a dog he was supposed to end realises that the canine is still alive. The only innocent party in the drama that ensues is the dog itself.
Release Date:2017-11-24
Department:Art
Job:Production Design
Vote Count:51
The Defiler is a fuck-yeah-tale of passion, mayhem, love and revenge, ode to 80’s action, italian ripp offs and b-sleaze set in the cinematic splatter-punk universe.
Release Date:2016-11-11
Character:Lapa
Vote Count:1
Four young adults with different stories but the same destination; closed psychiatric ward.
Release Date:2016-05-14
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:15
Vote Count:2
Marja (Minka Kuustonen) is a blogger. Olavi is one of the richest men in the country. She might be able to save her blog if she dates him, but what if she falls for him for real?
Release Date:2016-03-25
Character:Baarimikko
Vote Count:14
In 1989 a country boy doesn't want to eat potatoes at home. He wants to introduce something more exotic to his parents. One day he takes his savings and his moped to a pizzeria in town.
Release Date:2016-03-11
Department:Editing
Job:Editor
Vote Count:2
The female director wants full frontal nudity from her male lead, but the actor has a big problem with it.
Release Date:2016-03-11
Department:Editing
Job:Editor
Vote Count:5
Aimo and Milla live together at her alcoholics-turned-zombies parents' place, while saving money to move out. Due to his lack of self confidence, Aimo wastes their savings to turbo-boost his muscles, and eventually to turn himself into a robot. Milla doesn't like this new Aimo and leaves him. Aimo's heartache leads him to give up his heart for a metal one, one that doesn't hurt. Milla decides to steal Aimo heart: after all, a woman needs to have a man's heart. Lovemilla is an anarchic comedy trip, a story about love, robots and bodybuilding.
Release Date:2015-02-06
Department:Production
Job:Executive Producer
Vote Count:14
Pipsa wants a better life. She is sure that new breasts will help her to achieve it. But where to get the money for the surgery?
Release Date:2014-09-01
Department:Editing
Job:Editor
Vote Count:11
They live among us, forever young and deadly seductive. And unlike vamps, it's not blood they crave from their male, as 17-year-old Didi Tiensuu discovers when she beds her boyfriend for the first time and promptly kills him. The sultry nymphs Kati and Nadia take Didi under their wings in her new life as a divine being and sexual predator.
Release Date:2014-03-24
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:16
School audition in the 80's. Steve has been training very hard, but singing in front of an audience is not easy. It might be easier to behind the curtain.
Release Date:2013-11-14
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:4
Aerial photograph salesman travels the Finnish countryside. In one house he hears strange noises coming from the closet.
Release Date:2012-11-16
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:3
A caper comedy about two friends, Simo and Lasse, who try to earn their living as burglars. But now there's also Baby Simo.
Release Date:2012-09-14
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:10
Two men and a fish runs through the country.
Release Date:2011-11-07
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:2
Play God is a humorous documentary that neither apologizes nor whines but simply recounts, with brutal honesty, the story of a failed splatter film project.
Release Date:2011-09-06
Department:Camera
Job:Director of Photography
Character:Self / Narrator (voice)
Vote Count:3
Police officer gets back to work after getting a wheelchair. Nothing is the same and even the gun must be given away.
Release Date:2011-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:3
Young Nazi skinhead, Väinö, comes home from prison. Mother is not around, but big brother is. Big brother is not telling whereabouts of mother, but for some reason there's a lot raw meat around the apartment.
Release Date:2010-01-01
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Pera wants to try something kinky in the bathroom, so he asks his mate to help him. However, Pera’s wife comes home a bit too soon…
Release Date:2008-10-24
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:11
The meaning of life is a piece of cake.
Release Date:2008-01-01
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:4
The momentary happiness of an unlucky man.
Release Date:2006-11-02
Department:Directing
Job:Director
10-year old Marko is jealous of his next door neighbour who is the same age as he. What happens when Marko notices that his opportunity has come?
Release Date:2006-08-28
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
A thirtysomething actress is hired by a company called Memory Lane. But she has to keep things secret, even though business is booming. They are replacing bad memories with good ones.
Department:Directing
Job:Director
As a service provider, Heikki's mission is to deliver relationship experiences to his clients, with no strings attached. Because of the dysfunctional nature of his own life, he wants to make the experiences as realistic as he can - in other words, as unpleasant as possible.
Department:Directing
Job:Director