Synopsis:

World famous drummer and composer Billy Cobham takes us on a trip through world music. The trip begins with Billy’s concert with the Big Band Espoo in Finland, continues in New York where he grew up and took his first musical steps and ends in Switzerland and South America.

color, 79 min

PROJECTION:

Tuesday 15.04.2008 AT 19:00

Monday 14.04.2008 AT 20:00

Synopsis:

This is Mika’s first film and his brother Aki Kaurismäki plays the main character Ville Alfa (also the name of brothers Kaurismäki’s production house that produced this film). Ville is a young resourceful drifter who roams the streets of Helsinki trying to bum money from friends and passers by. He has a talent to come up with ingenious excuses and stories when he begs for money.

b/w, 53 min

PROJECTION:

Wednesday 16.04.2008 AT 19:00

Tuesday 15.04.2008 AT 21:00

Synopsis:

This is Mika Kaurismäki’s first feature film. It tells the story of Manne who gets a visit from a group of gangsters asking him to repay an old debt. They give him two weeks to collect money but Manne decides to run away knowing that he will not be able to find all the money. In the middle of the night he leaves Helsinki in the company of Veera, an old friend who also has a reason to flee.

color, 119 min

PROJECTION:

Thursday 17.04.2008 AT 19:00

Wednesday 16.04.2008 AT 20:00

Synopsis:

This is a story about a family of small crooks whose youngest son, Aleksanteri Suuri Sammakko, tries to distance himself from the family tradition of robbery and theft. Even though he is inspired by good intentions, he soon understands that it is not easy to stay honest.

color, 95 min

PROJECTION:

Friday 18.04.2008 AT 19:00

Thursday 17.04.2008 AT 21:00

Synopsis:

Giancarlo Rosso, a mafia hitman from Sicily, gets an order to do a job in Finland. His target is the young Finnish girl Maria. Rosso comes to Helsinki, buys a weapon and goes to Maria’s apartment. He finds an empty apartment and meets her brother Martti. Even though they do not speak the same language they set off together to find Maria.

color, 76 min

PROJECTION:

Saturday 19.04.2008 AT 19:00

Friday 18.04.2008 AT 21:00

Synopsis:

Alex is a Finnish man married to a Turkish woman. He lives and works as a taxi driver in Berlin. One evening two men with a suitcase of money enter his car. Unfortunately for Alex gangsters whose money was stolen start chasing them. Shooting starts and both of his passengers get killed. Alex is forced to get rid of their bodies and deal with the gangsters on his own.

color, 96 min

PROJECTION:

Monday 21.04.2008 AT 19:00

Saturday 19.04.2008 AT 21:00

Synopsis:

The heroine of this film is Anna, a former top model whose career is slowing down because of bad personal choices. Her lover Ulf is a pimp and leaves her in Stockholm. Middle aged fashion photographer Ilja will be her next bad choice. After she ends up in jail, Anna will set off to find Ulf.

color, 91 min

PROJECTION:

Tuesday 22.04.2008 AT 19:00

Monday 21.04.2008 AT 21:00

Synopsis:

Two cousins, Kari and Matti, decide to exchange their lives briefly. That is the only way one of them can satisfy the conditions that will allow him to inherit money from an American aunt. Even though Matti is a bum living under a bridge in Helsinki, thanks to Kari, he be comes a real gentlemen. Kari in return takes Matti’s place under the bridge.

color, 91 min

PROJECTION:

Thursday 24.04.2008 AT 21:00

Wednesday 23.04.2008 AT 19:00

Synopsis:

After his wife’s death in a car accident, Finnish banker Kari and his two daughters move to Brazil. On the streets of Rio he loses all his money and is forced to go to the country. On their way they meet a pilot who tells him about gold mines, a school teacher who wants to save the rainforests and an Indian tribe that lives with the nature.

color, 90 min

PROJECTION:

Thursday 24.04.2008 AT 19:00

Wednesday 23.04.2008 AT 21:00

Synopsis:

Zombie, as his nickname suggests, is a young man without much vitality. The only constant thing in his life is alcohol. After roaming the streets of Istanbul he returns to Helsinki and gets drafted. However, he manages to escape the military after putting turpentine in an officer’s soup and thus being declared psychologically inept. He gets a new chance when his friend Harri invites him to play bass with his band.

color, 88 min

PROJECTION:

Monday 28.04.2008 AT 21:00

Saturday 26.04.2008 AT 19:00

Synopsis:

This documentary was made in the Brazilian village of Karaja where the director Sam Fuller planned to shoot his film Tigrero. The film was never made because film studios thought that the location was too dangerous for certain film stars such as John Wayne and Ava Gardner. Forty years later Fuller returns to the village with Jim Jarmusch and Mika Kaurismäki in order to tell the story about himself, his film and people from the village.

b/w and color, 75 min

PROJECTION:

Monday 28.04.2008 AT 19:00

Saturday 26.04.2008 AT 21:00