Subject: history

I Wanna Dance: The Whitney Houston Movie

Whitney Houston is one of the greatest female R&B pop singers of all time. The film tells about her life, music and journey to superstardom.

Just Mercy

Prominent attorney Bryan Stevenson fights to free a wrongly convicted to death.

The Help

The film takes place in Jackson, Mississippi, USA and tells about the lives of African-American maids who worked in white homes in the early 1960s.

Jackson’s sorority girl Skeeter is an exception in her small town when she begins interviewing black women. These women have taken care of the host families’ households all their lives. At first, only Skeeter’s best friend’s family maid named Aibileen agrees to talk, but as they continue to work together, the other maids decide to open up.

The Help is a timeless, universal and touching story about friendship that crosses borders and tells that change is possible.

Black Adam

The world needed a hero, it got Black Adam.

New Line Cinema brings the action adventure Black Adam starring Dwayne Johnson to the big screen. Nearly 5,000 years after being granted the powers of the ancient gods and imprisoned, Black Adam (Johnson) is freed from his earthly grave, ready to dish out justice to the modern world in his own style.

Jauem Collet-Serra (Jungle Cruise) directed the film based on a script based on the DC characters by Adam Sztykiel, Rory Haines and Sohrab Noshirvan. Black Adam was created by Billy Parker and C.C. Beck. (Source: Warner Bros. Finland)

Extinct

Op and Ed are Flummels, animals from ancient times, which belong to Mother Nature’s strangest quirks: in appearance, they resemble donuts covered in fur. Accompanied by chance, the wild Op and the suspicious Ed go on a time travel from their home, the Galápagos Islands of 1835, to the present-day metropolis, Shanghai.

In the bustle of the concrete jungle, they hear the terrible news – shortly after their departure, the flummels have disappeared from the face of the earth and the entire species has become extinct! Op and Ed are now the last of their race, and they must find a way to save the Flummels from certain destruction. A new acquaintance, a dashing little dog Clarence, offers to help them. (Source: Finnkino Oy)

Ricky Rapper and the Nighthawk (Risto Räppääjä ja Yöhaukka)

Risto finds hookworms while digging for the treasure, and archaeological excavations begin at the discovery site. When a valuable Iron Age ring found in the area disappears, it seems certain that a night hawk preying on excavations is moving nearby! The case takes a surprising turn when it turns out that Rauha Räppääjä is involved in the matter.

Everything gets even stranger when Lennart Lindberg is put behind bars as a suspect. Does Elvi have a hidden past – and why on earth does Nellik start behaving strangely? Risto plans to find out about all of this and sets off on the trail of that mysterious night hawk. (Source: Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures)

Iris

The year is 1890. Iris is eight years old and lives with her visual artist mother Ester in Stockholm. Iris’s father is dead. Iris has been waiting for a long time to be able to go to Paris with her mother, to the opening of this exhibition, but to her disappointment, she has to stay home. And when the babysitting plans don’t work out as expected, let’s rush Iris to Åland, a place Iris doesn’t know anything about, but where she finds out her roots and where she grows up to be a child she’s never had.

Iris, who has lived as an only child in the Stockholm milieu and has been in contact with artists’ circles, thus ends up in the Grand Duchy of Finland’s archipelago, where life is poor and uncomplicated. The clash of cultures is great and for the first time in her life, Iris has to create relationships with other children. Iris struggles to find her place in this new environment. (Source: Future Film)

Tom of Finland

A film about Finnish artist Touko Laaksonen’s journey to international success and at the same time a story about Finnish history. The Tom of Finland film was part of the program for the centenary of Finland’s independence in 2017. (Source: Koulukino)

Diving Into the Unknown (Takaisin pintaan)

A documentary film about a life-threatening operation and unconditional friendship, where a friend is not left behind, even at the risk of his own life. (Source: Koulukino)

Peruna

A comedy about a budding entrepreneur who tries to bring potatoes to Finland in the 17th century.