The punk band Pertti Kurikan nimipäivät and Mouka Filmi’s film crew are heading to Germany. This is the band’s first tour abroad and gives them the possibility to perform in new and exciting places such as an underground punk club. Mouka Filmi documents the tour as a part of the film in development “Let’s Make a Fuss”. The film will be released 2012.

The Living Room of the Nation is released on DVD 20.10.2010! “Life is like Shakespeare’s play: To be, or not to be. Now is the time not to be.” A documentary film by Jukka Kärkkäinen.

DVD available at: DISCSHOP http://tinyurl.com/ko-discsop CDON http://tinyurl.com/ko-cdoncom LEVYKAUPPA ÄX http://tinyurl.com/ko-levykauppax NETANTTILA http://tinyurl.com/ko-netanttila

A Tall Man directer by Jani Peltonen has been selected to Kettupäivät-festival. The film competes in the professional category with 11 other short documentaries.

More information: http://www.kettupaivat.fi

Michael Madsen’s film Into Eternity has won the Nordic Documentary Award in Nordisk Panorama 2010 held in Bergen. The film is co-produced by Mouka Filmi.

Jury motivation: “By transforming the cinema into a time machine, the director tackles what could have been a dry specialist subject matter or a piece of engineering-porn in a way that is surprising, poetic and mezmerising. His creative ambition is fully realised in a compelling visual style, a rich soundscape and a treatment of interviewees that takes them way beyond the usual “expert talking heads.” He turns the global problem of dealing with nuclear waste into a meditation on the destiny of mankind and civilization itself. All this without sacrificing journalistic rigour.”

Congratulations Michael and big thanks to the whole crew!

More information about the movie:

http://www.intoeternitythemovie.com/

And the prize:

http://www.filmkontakt.com/fkn-428/?ref=nf

“When one talks about suicide one does not talk about death, but life” -Heini

Finland has one of the highest suicide rates in the World. The documentary film “Once I Dreamt of Life” is a collage of stories of different individual experiences related to suicide. The documentary film approaches suicide from many angles and opens a view to a subject that is too often kept silent.

The film “Once I Dreamt of Life” is in development.

Four disabled guys form the World’s last punk-rock band. They might not conquer the World, but they will achieve something more important.

Let’s Make a Fuss is a film about the Finnish punk-rock band Pertti Kurikan nimipäivät (Pertti Kurikka’s Name Day), formed by four mentally disabled guys. It follows the band’s journey from their rehearsal room to festival stages and into the limelights. The film shows the love and hate between them. The arguments. The crying. The laughter. It shows what punk used to be about: misfits screaming their lungs out about real problems. This is why this is the last punk band in the World. And they are here to make a fuss.

The film was granted development support by the Finnish Film Foundation and a special AV-support by ESEK (The Finnish Performing Music Promotion Centre) and LUSES (The Foundation for the Promotion of Finnish Music).

A Tall Man directed by Jani Peltonen is finished!

Väinö Myllyrinne was one of the first internationally known Finnish celebrities, thanks to his height of nearly 2,5 meters. After his death, Väinö, or rather his figure, became immortal. His journey continues in our collective memory, best reprised by a life-size puppet, which tours the World much like Väinö himself used to.

“A Tall Man” pictures Väinö’s endless journey from the glittering European metropolises of the 1930’s to the local supermarkets and museums of today, which hold and preserve his belongings. It is a lyric, yet melancholy story about civilization’s obsession to organize and categorize the World.

16/03/2010 The Living Room of the Nation is screened at The South by Southwest film festival in Texas, USA!

http://sxsw.com/

http://my.sxsw.com/events/event/5200

Jukka Kärkkäinen’s short film “Do You Still Remember Hilma Limperi” premieres at the Tromsø International Film Festival on January 22nd! http://www.tiff.no

The Living Room of the Nation has been selected to Magnificent7 european feature documentary film festival in Belgrad, Serbia.

http://www.magnificent7festival.org/selekcija/the_living_room_of_the_nation.htm