Aleksi Bardy (Production)
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Works
The Summer Book
The story of the relationship between Sophia, an eight-year-old girl who is growing up fast, and her grandmother, who is nearing the end of her life. They are spending time together with Sophia’s father, at the family summer house on a tiny unspoiled island in the Gulf of Finland. All three are coming to terms with the recent death of Sophia’s mother in very different ways.
Release Date:2025-01-31
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:1
Pepe
Pepe Willberg has travelled a winding road to this day, to the hearts of Finns and unlikely stardom. What has it all been like for a man who, in the beginning, sang only on condition that the lights in the hall were turned off? Written and directed by Severi Koivusalo, PEPE is a musical documentary about a talented musician with a unique voice, who struggles to balance his popularity with his passion for music, whose iconic songs have been playing in the background of Finnish life through seven different decades.
Release Date:2024-10-04
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:2
Sebastian
Max is a 25-year-old freelance writer and aspiring novelist who seems well on his way to success in London’s cultural spheres. Yet by night, he finds a different kind of exhilaration as a sex worker with the pseudonym Sebastian, meeting men via an escorting platform. Max uses his experiences as Sebastian to fuel his stories and the worthy debut novel that he has been longing to write, finally seems within reach.
Release Date:2024-08-02
Department:Production
Job:Co-Producer
Vote Count:19
Itty Bitty Princess
When the anarchistic princess of her own life, Princess Itty Bitty is told that her little brother, who still lives in her mother's womb, is about to move into her room, she's had enough. Drawing on the wisdom of her quirky neighbor, Auntie Jenssen, Itty Bitty devises a plan and conjures the bossy grown-ups to Hilldiggle with the help of her magical dog, Sausage.
Release Date:2024-03-27
Department:Production
Job:Executive Producer
Vote Count:2
The Invisible Fight
After surviving a deadly attack, a guard on the Soviet-Chinese border decides to become a monk but must continually prove along the way that he's capable of becoming the enlightened man he set out to be.
Release Date:2023-12-08
Department:Production
Job:Executive Producer
Vote Count:5
Comeback
No Love Lost rocketed to fame and made its members stars. Guitarist Tony has drunk himself to poverty when a message reaches him: after years of sobriety, singer Katarina has relapsed and is in dire straits. Tony gets a visit from Katarina's distant daughter Ellie. She's looking for answers to questions about her family - in exchange for the key to the band's comeback. Wanting to reclaim their fame and money, Tony and bassist Pete set out on an adventure - determined to bring No Love Lost back.
Release Date:2023-10-06
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:4
Proxy
An architect about to begin her maternity leave starts to suspect that her replacement is trying to take over her grand design, and her life.
Release Date:2023-10-06
Department:Production
Job:Executive Producer
Episode Count:3
Codename: Annika
Finnish art fraud investigator, Emma, goes undercover to infiltrate an auction house in Stockholm to investigate the firm’s connection to a notorious money launderer known as Blanko. To go undetected, Emma chooses the cover identity Annika, a hot-headed socialite who lives for wild parties, drugs and alcohol and is the opposite of the cool, calm, and collected Emma. By adopting this wild persona, doors begin to open to the hidden world of high-class art fraud. However, becoming Annika means Emma must confront memories from her past that she has tried to forget.
Release Date:2023-09-30
Department:Creator
Job:Creator
Vote Count:16
The Worst Idea Ever
The lifelong friendship between the two game developers begins to fray as one longs for nostalgia of her youth, and the other for marriage and a life abroad. When old grudges surface at a LARP-themed bachelorette party, it's time to find out who's living whose dream.
Release Date:2023-01-13
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:2
Erik Stoneheart
Erik is convinced he has a stone for a heart. That’s why he doesn’t mind that his parents have no time for him, or that he is bullied at school, or that he has no real friends. When his family moves to a villa they inherited, he is confronted by Maria whom Erik's parents want to kick out along with her father. Maria refuses to move and promises to make Erik's life a living hell. As a last attempt to defeat Erik, Maria goes to look for her mother who disappeared two years ago. Together they end up on a fantastical journey to the In-Between-World and Erik learns how hard it really is to wear a heart of stone.
Release Date:2022-12-09
Department:Production
Job:Co-Producer
Vote Count:9
DikDek - Painajainen majatalossa
Tapsa Mäkilä quits his job as a private detective and starts running a dilapidated inn with his spouse Anna.
Release Date:2021-11-18
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Episode Count:7
Vote Count:1
Wedding of the Century
A celebrity psychiatrist struggles to find a date for a wedding. Her dearest ex is getting married and she needs to find someone fancy enough to hide the fact that she is lonely, drinks too much and is pretty fucked up in any imaginable way.
Release Date:2021-10-15
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:6
Reunion 3: Singles Cruise
The approaching baptism of his ex-wife's new baby destroys Antti's ability to function and puts him in catatonic state. Tuomas and Nippe take action to cheer him up and decide to take him on a singles cruise.
Release Date:2021-07-28
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:14
Tove
Helsinki, 1945. The end of the war brings a new sense of artistic and social freedom for painter Tove Jansson. While focusing her artistic dreams on painting, the enchanting tales of the ‘Moomin’ creatures she told to scared children in bomb shelters, rapidly take on a life of their own, bringing international fame.
Release Date:2020-10-02
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:63
Ladies of Steel
Inkeri, 75, has hit her husband on the head with a solid iron frying pan and is planning to bury him in their garden. Before facing the rest of her life in prison, there may yet be a moment left to really live. Inkeri makes her sisters Sylvi and Raili join her on a trip to the Koli National Park. Will Inkeri find in her that free young woman who desired a feminist revolution in the 70s?
Release Date:2020-01-03
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:16
Dogs Don't Wear Pants
Juha has lost his wife in an accident. Years after, he still feels numb and unable to connect with people. Meeting Mona, a dominatrix, changes everything.
Release Date:2019-11-01
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:163
My Brother's Keeper
The story of a Finnish rap artist Cheek and his brother.
Release Date:2018-01-31
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:12
Wonderland
Recently divorced Helena is getting anxious about spending christmas alone. Her best friend invites her to spend old time christmas on a farm - only place they can afford.
Release Date:2017-12-01
Department:Production
Job:Executive Producer
Vote Count:14
Miami
Miami is the story of two sisters who have grown up separately. The older sister, Angela, is an exotic dancer with her own touring dance group. The younger, Anna, on the threshold of adulthood, lives in a small town working in sales. When their father dies, Anna looks for and finds Angela. The fascinating, high-strung Angela asks the timid Anna to accompany her on tour and, before long, trouble from Angela’s past catches up to them and the sisters’ love is put to the test.
Release Date:2017-08-04
Department:Production
Job:Executive Producer
Vote Count:18
Tom of Finland
Touko Laaksonen, a decorated officer, returns home after a harrowing and heroic experience serving his country in World War II, but life in Finland during peacetime proves equally distressing. He finds peace-time Helsinki rampant with persecution of the homosexual and men around him even being pressured to marry women and have children. Touko finds refuge in his liberating art, specialising in homoerotic drawings of muscular men, free of inhibitions. His work – made famous by his signature ‘Tom of Finland’ – became the emblem of a generation of men and fanned the flames of a gay revolution.
Release Date:2017-02-24
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:128
Gold Digger
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
Department:Production
Job:Executive Producer
Vote Count:14
The Mine
A young and ambitious civil servant Jussi finds himself being in charge of the environmental permit of a huge nickel and uranium mine in Northern Finland. The Talvivaara mine, led by a charismatic globe trotting visioner Pekka Perä is introducing an entirely new method of collecting minerals whilst creating jobs in one of the poorest areas in Scandinavia. Jussi slowly discovers that he has been led astray by several people and that the new method has serious downsides he did not forsee. The mine is causing environmental hazards that are being hushed down. A new application for another permit is brough to his table by the same mine. Along with the application comes an interesting job offer and a chance of a new beginning. Jussi has to decide whether he will play along and if so, with whom.
Release Date:2016-01-22
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:18
Headfirst
Headfirst is a black comedy about a single mother with anger management problems and her teenage daughter who is always in trouble at school. With yet another school comes a new teacher and a blast from the past for the mother. Before long, an accidental pickpocket and a notoriously lousy storyteller teams up with this one dysfunctional sort of a family. Nothing is the same anymore. Headfirst is a story about missing teeth, strange friends, hidden dreams and long-gone love. And about a hare.
Release Date:2014-12-26
Department:Production
Job:Executive Producer
Vote Count:13
They Have Escaped
Two troubled youths break out of their halfway house and make their way to one's home.
Release Date:2014-10-17
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:28
I Won't Come Back
Anya, a young academic raised in an orphanage, is on the cusp of success when she’s accused of drug possession. While in limbo hiding from the police, she hits the road with Kristina, another orphan several years Anya’s junior, in search of her possibly mythical grandmother.
Release Date:2014-06-12
Department:Production
Job:Co-Producer
Vote Count:25
The Campaign – The Making of a President
Follows the (successful) presidential campaign of Sauli Niinistö from inside of the campaign office.
Release Date:2014-03-14
Department:Production
Job:Executive Producer
Vote Count:2
Concerning Violence
Concerning Violence is based on newly discovered, powerful archival material documenting the most daring moments in the struggle for liberation in the Third World, accompanied by classic text from The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon.
Release Date:2014-01-17
Department:Production
Job:Executive Producer
Vote Count:18
Heart of a Lion
Neo-Nazi falls in love with a woman who has a black son and finds himself fighting with conflicting feelings.
Release Date:2013-10-18
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:69
Gloriously Wasted
Juha Berg is a 30-year-old hopeless drunk in the Kallio neighborhood of Helsinki. Juha doesn't have the first intention of changing his way of life - just the opposite. He really enjoys sundry sexual relationships, adrenalin-inducing violence and, of course, alcohol for which he gets money even if by collecting bottles. But the hilarity in a drunken haze soon gets a run for its money as the passionate Juha falls in love with his AA group leader. The relationship with Tiina progresses quickly to dating and Juha has to make pivotal decisions. Juha has to begin balancing between maintaining a functional intimate relationship and his old lifestyle. Juha's best friend Kristian does his best to sabotage the relationship, and Juha's shaky decision to stay sober is further hindered by Mikael, an expert on German erotica. But how far can you go before there is only one solution left?
Release Date:2012-12-28
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:23
Bekas
Two shoeshiner homeless brothers named Zana and Dana live on the edge of survival. They catch a glimpse of Superman through a hole in the wall at the local cinema and decide that they want to go to America in order to meet Superman.
Release Date:2012-11-30
Department:Production
Job:Co-Producer
Vote Count:107
Hush
Sakari and Veera get engaged, madly in love. Not long after, Veera asks Sakari to help her in a matter relating to her father, and in a way that completely shocks Sakari. He does everything in his power to stop her from pursuing her plan. But before the story is over, Sakari will be been forced to make choices he thought he'd never have to face.
Release Date:2012-07-13
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:7
Madame President
Rouva Presidentti is a documentary on Tarja Halonen, the 11th President of Finland. The movie follows Halonen for one and a half years, during her last times as President.
Release Date:2012-03-30
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:2
Police Investigates
A 16 year old girl claims she was abducted. Two police officer are tasked with investigating whether her story is plausible.
Release Date:2012-03-08
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:1
Once Upon a Time in the North
19th century drama set on the plains of Ostrobothnia, western Finland, which are controlled by groups of knife-wielding thugs, the toughs. Traditionally, the first-born son inherits everything, so when Esko – a bum and a gang leader – learns that his father will leave the Välitalo estate to his younger and exemplary brother, all hell breaks loose.
Release Date:2012-02-17
Department:Production
Job:Executive Producer
Vote Count:22
Where Once We Walked
The stories of the aristocratic Lilliehjelm family, the middle-class Widing family and the poor Kajander family from the Finland's independence through the Civil War and the Roaring Twenties ending during the Second World War.
Release Date:2011-10-28
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:8
Lapland Odyssey
Lapland Odyssey is a comedy about Janne, a man from Lapland in northern Finland, a man who has made a career out of living on welfare. Inari, his girlfriend, is tired of Janne's incapability of getting a grip on life, Janne wasn't even able to buy a digital TV box that Inari had given money for. Inari gives an ultimatum: a digital box needs to arrive by dawn or she leaves. Janne sets out into the night with his two friends to find a box. On their way to the city of Rovaniemi, Janne and his friends face many challenges, obstacles and temptations. They learn that they need to be daring. There's no room to give into bitterness. The most important thing isn't success, but rather the journey in itself.
Release Date:2010-10-15
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:87
Playground
German Laura follows her husband and moves to Finland with their baby girl. Her days at home are lonely as her husband is constantly working.
Release Date:2009-10-23
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:10
Disco and Atomic War
A different history of the Cold War: how Estonians under Soviet tyranny began to feel the breeze of freedom when a group of anonymous dreamers successfully used improbable methods to capture the Finnish television signal, a window into Western popular culture, brave but harmless warriors who helped change the fate of an entire nation.
Release Date:2009-04-10
Department:Production
Job:Co-Producer
Vote Count:14
Forbidden Fruit
Two 18-year old girls from a christian fundamentalist community flee to a city for a summer job.
Release Date:2009-02-13
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:30
Blackout
Recovering from a nail gun shot to the head and 13 months of coma, doctor Pekka Valinta starts to unravel the mystery of his past, still suffering from total amnesia.
Release Date:2008-12-26
Department:Production
Job:Executive Producer
Vote Count:9
The Visitor
A young boy lives with his mother on a farm surrounded by deep forest in the remote wilds of the Finnish countryside. From time to time, the boy visits his father - a man of great violence - in prison. Locked in the stable is an unruly horse, the boy´s only other companion. Their simple life is disrupted when a stranger appears, with a note from the father and a bullet in his side. Reluctantly, mother and son offer the stranger refuge.
Release Date:2008-12-08
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:18
Mr. Governor
Over a year, we follow the former Swedish Minister of Defense, Anders Björck, in his work as governor of Uppsala County. The official position is almost 400 years old, and the job consists of sitting at a big desk, having lunch meetings with other governors, cutting ribbons at opening ceremonies, holding speeches and eating dinner with the King and Queen of Sweden. It is hard work, but someone has to do it. Björck gives the viewer full access, making this personal portrait both humorous and very, very serious.
Release Date:2008-12-05
Department:Production
Job:Co-Producer
Vote Count:2
I Was Here
Living alone in an Estonian slum and unable to afford basic needs, a top high school student reluctantly enters the drug game to make ends meet.
Release Date:2008-09-12
Department:Writing
Job:Script Editor
Vote Count:10
Tears of April
There is civil war in Finland between "Whites" and "Reds". A woman soldier of the Reds is captured by the Whites. She is ordered to be executed. A lieutenant is enforced into a homosexual relationship with his commanding officer to save the Red female with whom he is infatuated.
Release Date:2008-08-29
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:23
The Border
The young man must set up a clear border between Finland and Russia, white and red, enemy and friend, us and them. While the task seems clear he finds out the execution of his command in concrete situations is very difficult. Right choices turn out to be wrong ones and correcting them make things worse.
Release Date:2007-11-30
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:26
Ganes
Remu grew up in modest conditions. He dropped out from schoold during his teen age years and is making career as a small time criminal. His family's destiny is about to come true, and it's going to be the usual: jail, alcoholism and violent death. After learning about rock music Remu learns to play drums and pushes himself into different bands. His first time in jails interrupts his music career, but after being released he starts his own band; Hurriganes.
Release Date:2007-09-28
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:21
The Emperor's Secret
The film stars the familiar characters from the Finnish TV show The Autocrats (a political satire of Finnish politics) in a fairy tale where the inhabitants of a small Finnish village have to defend themselves against a despotic emperor.
Release Date:2006-09-08
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:3
The Prince of Soap
Screenwriter Ilona falls in love with Kalle, the main star of the series, and mixes fact and fiction when she starts writing a romance between herself and the star. Jealous producer Raakel does everything she can to destroy Ilona's plans.
Release Date:2006-02-10
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:8
Beauty and the Bastard
Modern finnish movie about two very different young adults that after a chance meeting end up making music together and fall in love. While Nellis parents have the perfect career and man planned, she dreams of becoming a singer. Through a chance meeting at the studio, she meets the young and grungy Hip Hop music artist Sunen and asks him to help her make a demo tape. Not only is the ensuing story about differences growing closer and the difficulties that have to be overcome, well told. Also the music is exceptionally well made. It is quite unbelievable that this is the first feature of the director.
Release Date:2005-10-21
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:37
Frozen Land
When a schoolteacher is sacked, he projects his bad mood at his troubled teenage son. The son, in turn, buys a CD player from a pawnshop with counterfeit money. This starts a chain reaction of misery as every victim projects his problems on to another person.
Release Date:2005-01-14
Department:Crew
Job:Dramaturgy
Vote Count:60
Flowers and Binding
A black comedy about the dysfunctional relationships, love, and hate; concerning a small town sausage factory manager whose careless love affairs affect the lives of the factory workers as well as the women in his life.
Release Date:2004-10-15
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:7
Young Gods
Taavi,the enigmatic 18-year-old lead, has just inherited his long-deceased wealthy parents home and estate. It is high school graduation and Taavi's birthday, and after his fiends greet him au natural and are arrested, Taavi invites his friends to the mansion for a wild party. Taavi lives with a recording camera to his eye, a machine that allows his to keep interpersonal distance from everyone. Among his friends are Jere who considers himself a woman's man, Markus (who appears the well-adjusted one, and chubby, pierced Sami whose sexuality is ambiguous. The party gets wild, guests sleep around, and Taavi records it all!
Release Date:2003-10-24
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:21
Restless
Ari, a paramedic, is a chronic womanizer; he makes it a point of pride to never sleep with the same woman twice, and his nights are a long series of brazen one-night stands. But when Ari meets Tiina, something unexpected happens – he falls in love.
Release Date:2000-01-28
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:47
The Tough Ones
The Tough Ones tells a story of two friends who have a hard time finding their place in the society. Antti and Jussi are released from jail. While they were doing time for bank robbery, the third man involved in the robbery, the one who was not convicted, has become a policeman. He tries to help his friends to settle into the small town in Pohjanmaa, but the boys start a black market liquor business instead. The road seems to lead back to the jail.
Release Date:1999-01-15
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:40
Tell Everyone
Amanda Aaltonen refuses to resign herself to the miserable fate of a poor woman and daringly seeks her happiness in the world. As punishment for breaking the rules, society deprives her of the most important thing of all, her freedom, and imprisons her on the island of Seili.
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Elämäni SUPOn varjossa 2
Video documentary about Mark Parland's life during the years 1997 - 1999.
Release Date:1999-01-01
Character:Himself
Kotikatu
Release Date:1995-08-24
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:67
Vote Count:2
Back to the USSR
Reima Elo ends up trying to commit suicide when he is abandoned by his wife Molla. He is also the village's laughing stock due to his communism. At a critical moment, a Lenin lookalike from Russia named Vladimir rescues him.
Release Date:1992-03-27
Character:Mies rautatieasemalla
Vote Count:8