Aleksi Salmenperä (Director)

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 Date2004-10-15

Charactersd Hämärämies

Vote Count7

White Wall

Three workers die in a mysterious explosion accident deep down in a mine shaft. The incident is obscured, but rumors begin to spread about a find that no one can explain.

Release Date2020-09-20

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count12

At Home - Finland

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 Date2020-07-19

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

Man's Job

Juha is 38 years old and has three small children and a depressed wife. He sees himself as strong and believes a man should provide for his family. But one day Juha is fired from his job. Ashamed, he weaves a web of lies to hide the fact from his family. With the help of his friend Olli, Juha begins prostituting himself to support his wife and children. With this he makes in two hours what it took him two days to earn before. The shame and deception mushroom, but the pay from the new profession seems to offset the downside.

Release Date2007-02-23

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count32

Father's Day

Tinke's and his friend Veikko's life is turned upside down when two teenagers, determined to find their biological father, suddenly appear in their lives.

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Distractions

Distracted by life, Mr. Makkonen misses his engagement party by decades. From the cradle to the grave, life keeps interrupting, not only him, but a tired mother, a doomed superhero and the rest of the comrades in this uncontrollable world. Mixing comedy and fantasy with dark stories, Distractions will deliver the laughs with strings attached.

Release Date2015-09-11

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count19

Producing Adults

Longtime couple Venla and Antero come to a serious impasse. After years with Antero, Venla wants to start a family, but her boyfriend, worried that parenthood will stifle his speed-skating career, secretly gets a vasectomy. Determined to have a child, Venla seeks help from a female fertility doctor, a decision that breeds new possibilities for the prospective mother when she falls in love with the doctor.

Release Date2004-09-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count23

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 Date2016-01-22

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count18

Bad Family

The story of an overly protective and controlling father who suspects incest is taking place between his own son and daughter. These growing suspicions and concerns cause the father to become delusional and unrelenting in his quest to end the love affair between his children.

Release Date2010-01-29

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count20

The Bouncer

A night club bouncer gets disgusted of all the violence and repression of the weak he is seeing. He has to act to protect the victims.

Release Date2020-11-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count6

Bubble

16-year-old Eveliina accidentally sees her mother kissing another woman. Fearing her parents' divorce, she decides to intervene, by any means and without permission. In her opinion, the best way to destroy her mother's extramarital affair and bring her parents back together is a teenage daughter in trouble. Thus, Eveliina gets herself in trouble as many ways as she can. Along the way, the lives of a few others are at stake. Still, Eveliina guards her plan to the last, and the adults have their own secret ways of survival - until the bubble bursts.

Release Date2022-11-25

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count6

Void

Eero’s career as an author is spiraling down: he just can’t get started with his new novel. The ambitious actor Pihla is about to get her international break. Neither of them is willing to sacrifice their career even though their relationship is doing worse than ever. Void is a comedy-drama about the price of success and the agony of failure, and about situations where your partner just doesn’t get it.

Release Date2018-09-28

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count18

Master and Man

In the 1920s, two names dominated the world's long-distance running rankings. Paavo Nurmi was a legend in his own lifetime, but Ville Ritola is remembered by only a few. These biggest rivals to each other were different in almost every way, but they both shared a passion for winning.

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Posse

Release Date2009-12-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Police Investigates

A 16 year old girl claims she was abducted. Two police officer are tasked with investigating whether her story is plausible.

Release Date2012-03-08

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Alcan Highway

Alcan Highway is a filmed diary of a one dream on its way to fulfillment. The Documentary depicts the story of Hese making his dream come true; with the help of his friends he attempts to fix a truck, build a home on top of it, and drive it from Wasilla, Alaska to the Vancouver island. Hese is trying finally to get a home.

Release Date2013-04-19

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count10

Spring Break

The mother of a family is sick with COVID-19. Quarantine and worries have driven them apart, until the father forces the kids for a hike in the woods. They get lost, but it turns out to be the best thing that could have happened to them.

Release Date2020-07-19

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Rautahäät

A darkly humorous drama about love, parent-child relationships and the finite of life.

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Matara

Matara is the story of boys who role-play their own kingdoms in the summer. The senators plot in a togas made of bed sheets and take puppets as wives, while the coal-moustached rascals go wild with the city's and circus fun. A stroke from a wooden sword means death, and once you die, there's no coming back. Other Nations are treated as they usually are, ruthlessly.

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector