Yle Movies

Composed by two cellists from the metal band Apocalyptica, a contemporary rock opera presented by the Helsinki National Opera. The plot combines elements of a contemporary fantasy tale: love and the quest for eternal happiness in the face of a sprawling multin...

A hypocritical emigrant is collecting dust his chamber with having only the amusements of chess and nightmares. Prickly cheater messes up the game.

This Finnish National Opera production of the opera “Die tote Stadt” by Erich Wolfgang Korngold was staged by Kasper Holten, with Klaus Florian Vogt as Paul and Camilla Nylund as Marietta, while Mikko Franck directed the Finnish National Orchestra.

China, Laos and Cambodia are building more and more dams on Mekong river. Electric companies collect the profits, but river's ecosystems are losing and people are losing their livelihood.

Ritni Pieski wishes it was easier for Sámi queer youth to grow up in their community. In this short film, Pieski addresses the lack of representation and information about queer people and rights within the Sámi people.

Tero Sand was attached to a life-support machine for 28 years but managed to get recognition as an expert both in medicine and geology. In this documentary Sand's life is constructed using interviews and archival clips. The film is a sequel to the documentary...

Make is 11 but wants to be a teen or better yet, an adult - anything but a child. Instead he's forced to look after his little brother Konsta.

Documentary about Finnish immigrants in the New York City.

A documentary following a day in Urho Kekkonen's life as the president of Finland.

It's Christmas Eve in Helsinki. Young taxi driver Samu is working to escape a family Christmas with his fiancé and baby. At the airport Samu picks up a fascinating customer: a Finnish mercenary Hans, who has returned to Helsinki after an absence of 20 years. H...

Donetsk is the coal-mining area of Ukraine. Here most people work for low wages in the run down mines, while others make a lot of money. No matter which side of the social divide you are on, coming from Donetsk you will almost certainly be an opponent of the O...

A group of European physicists are working on new generation of computers. These will completely revolutionize the global information technology by exploiting the most peculiar phenomena of quantum mechanics - Superposition and Entanglement. These paradoxical...

A documentary about the elementary school children as they start their first year in Merihaka, Helsinki.

A teenage couple move on their own and have their first child.

The third part of Jean Bitar's documentary series about Finnish children is about freestyle biking.

YÖ Live at Hartwall Arena 10th of December 2011

The second part of the Kafka trilogy. In the evening, the fluffy bookmaker arrives at his home, in the elevator engine room, and finds an immense, humming egg on his table.