Subject: philosophy

Published: June 13, 2023

Free Guy

Free Guy tells the story of Guy, a bank clerk whose days are very similar. He wakes up in the morning, greets his pet fish, eats breakfast in front of the TV, and takes coffee with him on the way to work. However, there is a difference: People in the city rioting in sunglasses are destroying Guy’s beloved hometown.

One day, Guy accidentally meets a woman named Molotov Girl, who reveals the truth to him. Guy is a character in a video game called Free City, and the people with sunglasses are player-controlled characters that destroy the city while completing missions in the game. In the real world, Molotov Girl is a game designer named Millie, who is looking for evidence that the game’s code has been branded as the company that created the game through questionable means.

With Guy’s world in danger of being destroyed, he decides to become a hero to save his world in his unique way before it’s too late.

Published: June 2, 2023

Kupla

Eveliina, 16 years old, happens to see her mother kissing another woman. She is afraid of his parents’ separation and decides to intervene in the situation without permission and without fearing the limits of means. She believes that the best way to destroy mom’s extramarital affair and bring the parents back together is to be the teenage daughter who causes trouble.

So Eveliina throws herself into multi-problems. In this process, a few other lives also become stakes. Despite that, Eveliina keeps her plans a secret until the very end, and even adults have secret means of survival – until the bubble bursts.

Among the film’s actors, Stella Leppikorpi won the Jussi Award for Best New Actress.

Published: March 21, 2023

Kääntöpiste

In the story of the film, the lives of three people meet by chance due to common factors. Francis works in Finland without a work and residence permit, while Jere illegally brings growth hormones into Finland. The third participant is Vera and Aleksi, an ex-married couple suffering from relationship problems.

The film was nominated for four Jussi awards: best cinematography, sound design, editing, and costume design.

Koulukino’s learning material is aimed at high schools and vocational schools. The assignments deal with e.g. film locations, film script, information about the plot offered to the viewer, choices of characters, and immigration policy.

Published: February 28, 2023

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.

Published: January 31, 2023

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)

Published: January 13, 2023

Sorrow Tamers (Surunkesyttäjät)

Tamers of Grief is a documentary film about people who have decided to face grief without avoiding or running away from it. The film, shot on film, is about love, change, sadness and giving up.

Published: January 20, 2022

Where to Invade Next

In documentary film director Michael Moore’s new film, Moore travels around the world looking for ways to solve America’s problems. The trip brings him, for example, to Finland, where Moore gets to know the best schools in the world. (Source: Finnkino)

Published: November 19, 2021

Interstellar

The adventures of a group of explorers who make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.

Published: July 26, 2021

Wallace & Gromit – The Curse Of The Were-Rabbit

Cheese-loving eccentric Wallace and his cunning canine pal, Gromit, investigate a mystery in Nick Park’s animated adventure, in which the lovable inventor and his intrepid pup run a business ridding the town of garden pests. Using only humane methods that turn their home into a halfway house for evicted vermin, the pair stumble upon a mystery involving a voracious vegetarian monster that threatens to ruin the annual veggie-growing contest.

Published: July 26, 2021

No Country For Old Man

Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looking for it, with local sheriff Ed Tom Bell hot on his trail. The roles of prey and predator blur as the violent pursuit of money and justice collide.