Illume Movies

  • 2017
    Nokia Mobile: We Were Connecting People

    Nokia Mobile: We Were Connecting People

    Nokia Mobile: We Were Connecting People

    6.82017HD

    Once upon a time there was a large Finnish company called Nokia that manufactured the world’s best and most innovative mobile phones....

    Nokia Mobile: We Were Connecting People
  • 2014
    Monsterman

    Monsterman

    Monsterman

    5.62014HD

    A film about the monster of Lapland, Mr. Lordi, who after winning the Eurovision Song Contest loses everything, almost everything.

    Monsterman
  • 2015
    Seamstress

    Seamstress

    Seamstress

    7.22015HD

    A documentary film about Martta Koskinen, the last executed woman in Finland during the war in 1943. Martta was a Seamstress who lived in Helsinki...

    Seamstress
  • 2011
    Frozen Hell

    Frozen Hell

    Frozen Hell

    82011HD

    During the Continuation War, there were dozens of POW camps in Finland. About the third of 70,000 prisoners died during the first year of war. Most...

    Frozen Hell
  • 2023
    How to Fix the World

    How to Fix the World

    How to Fix the World

    42023HD

    How to Fix the World? is a comprehensive and informative documentary about direct action in the 1990s and 2000s, directed by Jouko Aaltonen. In the...

    How to Fix the World
  • 2010
    Pudana: Last of the Line

    Pudana: Last of the Line

    Pudana: Last of the Line

    62010HD

    A little Nenets girl Neko is taken against her will from her home to a boarding school in a remote Russian village. Forced to adapt to a foreign...

    Pudana: Last of the Line
  • 2019
    Northern Travelogues

    Northern Travelogues

    Northern Travelogues

    02019HD

    In 1917 Finnish explorer Sakari Pälsi travelled to Northeastern Siberia carrying a cinematograph and 13,000 feet of film with him. The journey...

    Northern Travelogues
  • 2024
    Children of War and Peace

    Children of War and Peace

    Children of War and Peace

    02024HD

    For the first time in its history, Finland became an autonomous state when it broke away from a crumbling Russian empire in 1917. Witnessing the...

    Children of War and Peace
  • 2004
    Bus

    Bus

    Bus

    02004HD

    This documentary follows a bustrip from Tallinn to Kaliningrad. A route that was so common in the Soviet times now passes through 4 different...

    Bus
  • 2021
    Life of Ivanna

    Life of Ivanna

    Life of Ivanna

    6.72021HD

    A sensitive and intimate portrait of Ivanna, a nomadic reindeer herder in the Russian Arctic and mother of five small kids. Ivanna is forced to...

    Life of Ivanna
  • 2008
    Punksters & Youngsters

    Punksters & Youngsters

    Punksters & Youngsters

    82008HD

    A documentary film about punk that lives from generation to generation.

    Punksters & Youngsters
  • 2011
    Splinters - A Century of an Artistic Family

    Splinters - A Century of an Artistic Family

    Splinters - A Century of an Artistic Family

    72011HD

    Peter von Bagh's documentary about Juhani Aho and people around him.

    Splinters - A Century of an Artistic Family
  • 2008
    Victims 1918

    Victims 1918

    Victims 1918

    72008HD

    A documentary on the executions that took place during and after the Finnish civil war in 1918.

    Victims 1918
  • 2018
    Fatei and the Sea

    Fatei and the Sea

    Fatei and the Sea

    6.22018HD

    The action in the film takes place in the Far East, on an uninhabited island called Rikord in the Peter the Great Gulf of the Sea of Japan. The lead...

    Fatei and the Sea
  • 2020
    School of Hope

    School of Hope

    School of Hope

    62020HD

    In the vast expanse of desert East of Atlas Mountains in Morocco, seasonal rain and snow once supported livestock, but now the drought seems to never...

    School of Hope
  • 2023
    I Smell a Mouse

    I Smell a Mouse

    I Smell a Mouse

    02023HD

    A documentary puppet animation about Iiti’s (28) moving in day. As if a sign from the universe for her poor life choices, there seems to be a...

    I Smell a Mouse
  • 2010
    Helsinki Twilight 1984

    Helsinki Twilight 1984

    Helsinki Twilight 1984

    62010HD

    Documentary about the great cultural transformation of Helsinki, Finland, in the early 1980's. The birth of new sub-cultures, art galleries and...

    Helsinki Twilight 1984
  • 2023
    Strangers in the Dark

    Strangers in the Dark

    Strangers in the Dark

    02023HD

    Strangers in the Dark is an experimental film about how light pollution makes a glow-worm’s love life a living hell. Combining different...

    Strangers in the Dark
  • 2008
    Helsinki, Forever

    Helsinki, Forever

    Helsinki, Forever

    6.852008HD

    Helsinki, Forever is a montage film about the city of Helsinki by the award-winning Finnish film director and academic Peter von Bagh. The film draws...

    Helsinki, Forever
  • 2009
    Within Limits

    Within Limits

    Within Limits

    72009HD

    A political documentary by Annika Grof.

    Within Limits