sneakend: Hyvää joulua, @lily-learns-finnish !!! ♡ I was your secret santa for @langblrsec
sneakend: Hyvää joulua, @lily-learns-finnish !!! ♡ I was your secret santa for @langblrsecretsanta this year. I got a bit carried away and made you more than one gift, hope you don’t mind. Here’s the first one, it’s a movie rec list of Finnish movies, most of which I have actually seen (I admit I don’t watch a ton of Finnish stuff despite living in Finland). Perhaps you’ve seen some of these but I think watching movies in one’s target language is always good practice since the language in them is much closer to actual spoken language than what you see in text books or literature. Don’t know how easy it’d be to find these movies online but if you’re in Finland I’m sure most libraries have at least some of them. comedy/drama Napapiirin sankarit (Lapland Odyssey) (2010) (x)“After a man called Janne living in Lapland in Northern Finland fails to acquire a digital television adapter for his wife from the local utility store due to not reaching it before closure time, he sets out with his two friends in the middle of the night to get one by any means necessary. He sets up a late rendezvous with his father-in-law who owns an electronics store in Rovaniemi, several hundred kilometers away. Nothing is naturally ever simple and along the way, the trio end up having several comedic misadventures” Korkein oikeus (Inner Trial) (2008) (x) “Noa is a young slacker who prefers to spend his days smoking weed. Together with his friends, he meets an old hippie, who is interested in rekindling his past passion of psychedelic trips and mind expansion.” Menolippu Mombasaan (One-Way Ticket to Mombasa) (2002) (x)“A cancer patient meets a new friend at the hospital, and together they escape on the adveture of their lives.” Hevi reissu (Heavy Trip) (2018) (x) “In this offbeat comedy from Finland, Turo is stuck in a small village where the best thing in his life is being the lead vocalist for the amateur metal band Impaled Rektum. The only problem? He and his bandmates have practiced for 12 years without playing a single gig. The guys get a surprise visitor from Norway–the promoter for a huge heavy metal music festival–and decide it’s now or never. They steal a van, a corpse, and even a new drummer in order to make their dreams a reality.” Pitkä kuuma kesä (A Long Hot Summer) (1999) (x) “The story of a rock band “Kalle Päätalo” in the 1980s.” Helmiä ja sikoja (Pearls and Pigs) (2003) (x) “When their bootlegging father ends up in jail, four twenty-something brothers need money to pay his debts to local crooks. Next, their 9-year-old half-sister is dumped on their doorstep by her prostitute mother. A karaoke set helps reveal that the little girl is quite a singer, just as a talent contest for children is coming up on national television offering more than enough money to the winner. If only the kid weren’t so hopelessly shy…” International Tom of Finland (2017) (x) “Award-winning filmmaker Dome Karukoski brings to screen the life and work of artist Touko Valio Laaksonen (aka Tom of Finland), one of the most influential and celebrated figures of twentieth century gay culture.” Iron Sky (2012) (x) “The Nazis set up a secret base on the dark side of the moon in 1945 where they hide out and plan to return to power in 2018.” Jadesoturi (Jade Warrior) (2006) (x)“Jade Warrior (Finnish: Jadesoturi, Chinese: 玉战士; pinyin: Yù zhànshì) is a Finnish-Chinese co-produced movie. It combines elements of the wuxia genre with Finnish Kalevala mythology.” Ruokala Lokki (Kamome Diner) (2006) (x) “Where are we welcome? On a quiet street in Helsinki, Sachie has opened a diner featuring rice balls. For a month she has no customers. Then, in short order, she has her first customer, meets Midori, a gangly Japanese tourist, and invites her to stay with her, and meets Masako, a formal and ethereal middle-aged woman whose luggage has gone missing. The three women work in the diner, interact, and serve customers. A somewhat brusque man teaches Sachie to make delicious coffee, then he returns under other circumstances. Three neighborhood women inspect the empty diner every day; will anything bring them inside? We learn why Sachie serves rice balls; but why Finland?” horror Sauna (2008) (x)“As a 25-year war between Russia and Sweden concludes, two brothers who are part of an effort to outline new border accords become undone by their actions, and their mistreatment of a young woman during their journey.” Rare Exports (2010) (x) “In the depths of the Korvatunturi mountains, 486 meters deep, lies the closest ever guarded secret of Christmas. The time has come to dig it up. This Christmas everyone will believe in Santa Claus.” Lake Bodom (2016) (x) “Every camper’s worst nightmare came true at Lake Bodom in 1960 when four teenagers were stabbed to death while sleeping in their tent.” Kyrsyä - Tuftland (2017) (x) “A headstrong textile student tries to overcome her problems by accepting a summer job offer from an isolated and offbeat village of Kyrsyä.”’ scifi Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning (2005) (x)“A dark science fiction comedy about domination of the world and the universe, and a parody of the Star Trek and Babylon 5 franchises.” war Tuntematon sotilas (The Unknown Soldier) (1955) (x) / (1985) (x) / (2017) (x) “The tale of a platoon of soldiers during the Continuation War. Based on Väinö Linna’s book of the same name.” Äideistä parhain (Mother of Mine) (2005) (x)“During World War II, more than 70,000 Finnish children were evacuated to neutral Sweden to avoid the conflict. “Mother of Mine” tackles that painful patch of history in a tale of 9-year-old Eero, a child who increasingly feels abandoned by his biological Finnish mother and yet not attached to his Swedish surrogate mom. When he is returned to Finland, his confusion intensifies.” Käsky (Tears of April) (2008) (x)“The film is set in the final stages of the Finnish Civil War. The film tells a story of a captured female Red Guard fighter, Miina, and the soldier Aaro who escorts her to her trial.” Raja 1918 (The Border) (2007) (x)“Set in the spring of 1918, right after the Finnish Civil War, the film is about a Finnish officer who is sent to the village of Rajajoki to form a border between Finland and Soviet Russia.” Rukajärven tie (Ambush) (1999) (x) “Set during the World War 2. In the summer of 1941 the Finnish army crosses the border of Russia. A platoon led by Lt. Eero Perkola goes through the wilderness around the Lieksa lake to search for Russian defensive positions. The platoon kills some Russian civilians and rests in a newly conquered village. There Lt. Perkola meets his fiancée Kaarina, who is serving in the Women’s Auxilary Corps (Lotta). Then the platoon continues with the mission, but a message about Kaarina’s possible death reaches Lt. Perkola. The message causes Perkola to become distracted during the mission.” children Muumipeikko ja pyrstötähti (Comet in Moominland) (1992) (x) “Moomin, Sniff and My set out to stop a comet approaching the Moomin valley. Along the way they meet Snusmumriken, the beautiful Snorkfröken, Snorken and a Hemul, who join them in their quest.” Joulupukki ja noitarumpu (Santa Claus and the Magic Drum) (1996) (x)“Strange accidents start to happen in Santa’s village when he receives a mysterious letter.” Rölli ja metsänhenki (Rollo and the Woods Sprite) (2001) (x) “Hairy and rowdy trolls called rolleys sail to a land inhabited by more peace-loving elves. When the rolleys arrive to the elf village, they scare the elves away and settle down in the village. One of the elves, Milli, a brave elf girl, returns to the village to make a peace with the rolleys. The rolleys do not warm to Milli’s peace proposal, but she becomes friends with a rolley called Rölli. It becomes their mission to solve the conflict between the elves and the rolleys.” Niko - lentäjän poika (The Flight Before Christmas) (2008) (x) “A young reindeer who suffers from vertigo learns to overcome his fear, takes flying lessons from a clumsy flying squirrel and heads to the North pole to save a troubled Santa and his fleet of flying reindeer.” -- source link
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