matti näränen

Feature documentary, 89min

dir. Ari Matikainen, prod. Ari Matikainen

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6 episodes fiction series for YLE.

Dir Kaya Pakaslahti, prod Kaisla Viitala, Komeetta.

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Praying For Armageddon, 97 min. Dir. Tonje Hessen Schei, Michael Rowley. Prod. Christian Aune Falch, Ingrid Galadriel Aune Falch, Torstein Parelius, Kaarle Aho.

1st editor Torkel Gjørv

Rap and Reindeer, 75 min. Dir. Petteri Saario, Prod. Petteri Saario, Tiina Saario.

Feature documentary, 104min. Dir. Oskari Pastila & Janne Niskala. Prod. Janne Niskala & Oskari Pastila.

Fragments of Humanity, Feature documentary (52min-version) 2022.

dir. Elli Rintala, prod. Ari Matikainen, Kinocompany.

8 Episodes (30min) documentary series for YLE.

dir. Petteri Saario, prod. Petteri Saario, Tiina Saario.

8 episodes fiction series for YLE AREENA. Dir Miia Tervo & Markus Lehmusruusu, prod Jarkko Hentula, Yellow Film Oy.

Kids Cup is a character driven coming-of-age family film from the world´s largest sports tournament for kids. We dive into a teenage universe and follow 13-14 year olds from different parts of the world, competing at the football tournament, Norway Cup, in Oslo.

Tästä ajasta kertova Nimby (lyhenne termistä Not In My Backyard) on pikimusta komedia suvaitsevana itseään pitävien ihmisten suvaitsemattomuudesta. Ohjauksesta vastaa kotimaisen elokuvan kentän anarkistisimpiin ja palkituimpiin tekijöihin lukeutuva Teemu Nikki (Armomurhaaja, tv-sarja Sekasin). Nimby kertoo tästä ajasta ja sen ristiriidoista – ja uskaltaa nauraa aiheille, joille yleensä vain pudistellaan päätä tai joilta suljetaan silmät.

For centuries, a closed institution served as a final destination for socially transgressive women at Själö, an isolated island in the Baltic Sea. The outcast women were kept there in detention to be observed, studied and measured – in much the same way as the scientists now focus on the surrounding nature at the research center the place has been converted to. While a young scientist is collecting samples on the island, the past emerges in the whispers of the unsent letters and empty rooms of the hospital. The space fills up with hidden memories as the invisible archives become alive. Whose stories are remembered and whose are forgotten?

CREW

Director: Lotta Petronella

Screenwriters: Lotta Petronella, Seppo Parkkinen

Producers: Ilona Tolmunen, Ulla Simonen, Johanna Tarvainen

DOP: Kerttu Hakkarainen

Editors: Matti Näränen, Lotta Petronella

Sound designer: Janne Laine

Music: Lau Nau

Hannu Karpo on suomalainen ikoni, joka on tallentunut kansakunnan muistiin: oman tiensä kulkija, joka raportoi väsymättä ja kuvia kumartamatta tavallisten suomalaisten ihmisten kohtaamista vääryyksistä. Kaikki siis tietävät Karpon, mutta harva tuntee miehen karvahatun alla. Elokuva Karpo kuvaa Hannu Karpon vuosikymmeniä kestänyttä uraa toimittajana ja käänteitä, jotka tekivät Karposta ilmiön ja koko kansan tunteman tv-kasvon.

Eva Wahlström on ammattinyrkkeilyn maailmanmestari. Lisäksi hän on taiteilija, äiti ja vaimo. Mikko Peltosen ohjaama EVA seuraa nyrkkeilyn supernaisen elämää lähietäisyydeltä lähes kolmen vuoden ajan vieden katsojan tilanteisiin, joihin on normaalisti pääsy vain sisäpiirillä. Tuloksena on inspiroiva ja koskettava tarina yhdestä suomalaisen urheilun merkittävimmistä tienraivaajista.

They had three goals: get Estonia independent, get their own currency, and get Russian troops out. Flashback to 1992 for a revealing look at how a group of young guns—a forester, history teacher, and former political prisoner to name a few—won Estonia’s first free elections since the Second World War. At 32, Mart Laar, the oldest of the idealistic lot, became Europe’s youngest prime minister. That was the least of his challenges. Neither he nor his cabinet ministers knew much about politics or economics and Estonia was flat broke. They had to learn fast, taking the country and each other by the horns to forge a nation and a viable economy out of chaos.

In 1992 Esad was 19 years old Muslim boy when he radicalized and became a part of the Civil War of the former Yugoslavia. He became a guard in the prison camp of Celibici in Bosnia where they kept Serbs imprisoned. Esad became an executioner and he tortured and killed prisoners.b He was arrested in 1996, judged by the International Criminal Court ,and convicted to 15 years of prison.

In 2006, he was released. Now he lives in a suburb of Helsinki and works as a cleaning assistant. In the Autumn of 2015, almost 25 years after the break out of the civil war, Esad will return to his home and the scene of his crime in Bosnia. He needs to seek forgiveness among those he betrayed, those he hurt the most and for himself, because without forgiveness Esad will never be able to find his way back to life.

Apart from many other war criminals Esad says he was never forced to do what he did, but he did it anyway – no excuses. Now he understands that he has to confront himself with the pain of the survivors hoping to be able to help them move on. In the film we will meet former camp guards, Esad’s victims, their relatives.