Dybt inde i Laplands vildmark leder Aatami Korpi efter guld, men efter at han støder på nazistisk patrulje, begynder en betagende og guldhungrende jagt gennem den ødelagte og minelagte Lapland-ørken.
Narrated by Golden Globe winner, Donald Sutherland, this is the incredible story of Ailo, the little reindeer. This uplifting tale follows the journey of baby Ailo as he navigates his first year of life in the snowy landscapes of a picturesque Lapland. Frail and vulnerable, Ailo must learn to walk, run, leap and hide to ensure he survives the long, treacherous journey with the herd. Ailo’s Journey is an inspirational story, in which a bleak wilderness is warmed by a mother’s endless love as she watches over Ailo in his incredible adventures with other creatures of the Arctic.
I det nordligste Finland støder et geologisk hold på et mystisk fund i bjerget Korvatunturi. Drengen Pietari gennemskuer, at det er selveste Julemanden, der er ved at blive tøet op - vel at mærke den onde Julefar, som blev jaget ud på den tynde is for mange hundrede år siden. Da områdets børn begynder at forsvinde, bliver det tydeligt, at Julemanden ikke er nogen flink fyr. Og så må lokalbefolkningen i aktion, anført af Pietari.
Hunt for the elusive tofu in the Arctic Circle.
Elle Marja er en 14-årig samisk pige. Efter hun bliver udsat for 1930’ernes racebiologiske undersøgelser på sin skole begynder Elle Marja at drømme om et andet liv. For at drømmen skal gå i opfyldelse er hun nødt til at blive en anden og bryde alle bånd til sin familie og kultur.
Denne forunderlige film er dansk science fiction med en ualmindelig høj underholdningsværdi. Bent Mejding finder en frossen dinosaurhale i Lapland. Han kan naturligvis ikke lade den ligge der, men får den fragtet til Danmarks Akvarium. Her vågner halen op - og snart terroriserer det fuldvoksne dyr store dele af det indre København. Replikbehandlingen er unik, skuespillet er rædsomt og Birte Wilke synger 'Oh, What a Tivoli Night'.
September of 1944, a few days before Finland went out of the Second World War. A chained to a rock Finnish sniper-kamikadze Veikko managed to set himself free. Ivan, a captain of the Soviet Army, arrested by the Front Secret Police 'Smersh', has a narrow escape. They are soldiers of the two enemy armies. A Lapp woman Anni gives a shelter to both of them at her farm. For Anni they are not enemies, but just men.
Den håbløst generte Turo hænger fast i en nordfinsk landsby. Det eneste lysglimt i hans liv er hans heavyband. Han og vennerne har spillet i 12 år uden at give en eneste koncert. Et tilfældigt møde med lederen af en norsk metalfestival giver dem dog blod på tanden. Det er nu eller aldrig! Så bandet stjæler en varevogn, et lig og en kiste fra den lokale kirkegård og sætter kurs mod Norge.
Pete and Runt travel to Lapland to hunt the snowman in the hope of a cash reward, and takeJustiina along as a bait.
It’s been three years since we last met Janne and Inari. Since then, they’ve had a daughter named Lumi. Janne and his friends experience a new adventure, this time on an autumn night. The boys go to a party but end up chasing Lumi who has disappeared. Meanwhile, Inari enjoys a girls-night-out and has an adventure of her own.
An earthy, naturalistically erotic and blood-soaked tale of young Martta's ill-fated affair with Oula, a womanizing reindeer herdsman in the Finnish Lapland of the late 1940s. When the 19-year-old girl turns up pregnant, her alcoholic father is outraged and a series of tragic events follows
Around the year 1000 AD warlike people, the so-called "tjuder", roam in northern Scandinavia. As they brutally kill a family in a remote area, including the parents and their little daughter, the family's teenage son, Aigin, observes the slaughter. He manages to flee from these killers and reaches a camp with other Sámi whose inhabitants are worried if he has been able to hide his track. Afraid of the murderous people, they decide to flee to the coast. The boy stays alone to avenge his family's murder. Unfortunately, they get him before he can do anything and force him to lead them to the other Sámi. He guides them but has a plan to destroy the barbarous people before reaching the camp.
When filmmaker Mari Soppela took her children and husband to live for a year on a sacred mountain in her native Finland, she was fulfilling a lifelong dream to share the arctic wilderness of her childhood with her family. But when years later her children turn the camera onto her, she is forced to confront her motivation for filming their lives in this searching and searingly honest cinematic exploration of identity, belonging and motherhood. Filmed over the course of 27 years, Mother Land challenges us all to examine the landscapes we carry within us and the narratives we create to make sense of our lives.
Laila is an innocent Lappish girl and the only daughter of a reindeer herder. During world war II Laila rescues crashed German fighter pilot Hans and the two develop warm feelings for each other during his convalescence. Years later, after the war, Hans returns to Lapland as a freelance photographer and manages to lure Laila to run away with him to capital Helsinki to start a career as a photo model, much to the chagrin of her traditional father Aslak. After initial happiness, however, Hans abandons Laila and the decadent lifestyle of a big city sends her life into a downward spiral.
After a herd of reindeer are mysteriously found dead following a meteor crash in a remote part of Lapland in northern Sweden, soldiers and a geologist are called out to investigate.
A physics teacher's obsessive dislike for Christmas is put to the test when a reservation mishap sends him and his family on a trip to Lapland, a tourist destination dedicated to Christmas and surprisingly near the North Pole.
A story about the life of reindeer emperor Mosku in Eastern Lapland at the beginning of the 20th century, when social conditions and the practice of traditional livelihoods are in transition. Mosku is involved in reindeer disputes and skirmishes and is also involved in the bandit hunt on the side of Soviet Russia led by Wallenius, the commander of the Lapland border guard.
A documentary highlighting some of the oddest, strangest and more grotesque examples of human behavior. Included are a tour of the Grand Guignol theater in Paris, a man who sticks long needles through his body, reindeer being castrated, and footage of lesbians and strippers.
Northern small town girl, 18 year-old Henna is literally blinded by envy after stalking Silja, a girl moving from South and who seems to get everything Hanna dreams of. Diva of Finland is a story about rivalry between young women and getting over it.
A dissatisfied teen disappears from his small town, leaving friends to wonder about his whereabouts.