Movies: Marika Parkkomäki

At first glance Maarit looks like any other woman in her early forties. There is, however, something strange under the surface. She radiates sexual energy that is hard to define....

A hauntingly beautiful and unusual coming-of-age tale. Set in 1890, Iris's artist mother leaves Stockholm for the summer and sends her 9-year old daughter to stay with an uncle in the Finnish archipelago. The girl learns to play with other children a...

A story about an evening in a restaurant. Six tables, seven stories, a tragicomedy about the fantasies and realities of love....

A Finnish family gathers together to spend time at grandparents’. When the night goes on, we realize that this is how things always go. With a warm and subtly humorous gaze, the film looks closely at the unspoken structures and norms inside a family....

Iris is on the verge of a burn out because she is forced to take all emotional and practical responsibility in her relationship with Leo. A mystical support group leader introduces her to a questionable method that could equalize her relationship. To...