Kati Outinen

Iris has a dead-end job in a match-factory, lives with her dour and forbidding parents, and her social life is a disaster.

The chilly landscapes of Helsinki are warmed by the gentle humanism and wry humor of Aki Kaurismäki in the first installment of his FINLAND TRILOGY, a deadpan tale of everyday survival in the face of overwhelming obstacles. Misfortune begets misfortune when, in short order, Lauri (Kari Väänänen) loses his job as a tram driver and the restaurant where his wife, Ilona (Kati Outinen), works announces it is closing to make way for a chain. With few job prospects, the two find themselves facing a crisis that tests the strength of their bond.

Aki Kaurismäki returns to France with this sun-kissed utopian parable. One of his most politically resonant films, Le Havre echoes The Man Without a Past’s ruminations on community and resilience, albeit this time (via a hat tip to Carl Dreyer’s Ordet) with a nod to the vagaries of the divine.

Tadek (Jim Carrey) is a detective who takes on a case involving the murder of a businessman. To his and everyone's surprise the case is identical to a character's murder in a recently published novel by a man named Kozlow. While the crime appears to be an open and shut case, Tadek discovers a darker secret.

The idyllic Uto faces strange phenomena isolating the island. Some islanders seek escape, while others prepare for the worst. With no answers, Finland’s navy considers total destruction. Unaware of the looming threat, islanders turn violent. Only Uto’s history holds the key. From Walter Presents, in Finnish with English subtitles.