Leo Idman

A young girl and her friends try to save their small rural school from being demolished to make way for a race track.

En 1931, fraîchement éconduit par Hollywood et sommé de rentrer en URSS, le cinéaste Sergueï Eisenstein se rend à Guanajuato, au Mexique, pour y tourner son nouveau lm, Que Viva Mexico ! . Chaperonné par son guide Palomino Cañedo, il se brûle au contact d’Éros et de Thanatos. Son génie créatif s’en trouve exacerbé et son intimité fortement troublée. Confronté aux désirs et aux peurs inhérents à l’amour, au sexe et à la mort, Eisenstein vit à Guanajuato dix jours passionnés qui vont contribuer à façonner le reste de sa carrière.

Year 1977. Punk and new wave rock'n roll has arrived to remote Finland and a bleak small town Oulu where increasingly odd-looking youths began to appear in the street with a message. Their rebellion speaks to Välde (17). Välde dreams of joining a rock band and becoming famous. He wants to get drunk for the first time, and to win the love of Pike, the most beautiful girl in the class. When Pike wins the Miss Blue Jeans contest organised by the country´s leading (and only) pop music magazine Suosikki and takes as her boyfriend the bourgeois Henri Hakala, Välde puts all his eggs in one basket. He abandons his former self and begins purposefully constructing a new persona for himself. But everything doesn’t go as Välde wanted … The film is based on a novel by Kauko Röyhkä, an author and indie rock musician.

Like good soldiers in a war-zone, hospital staff are expected to respect the chain of command when dealing with life and death situations. But what happens when smug doctors, arrogant surgeons, and out-of-touch administrators make that easier said than done? Nurses deals with the professional and personal lives of four female colleagues who cope in different ways with the challenges of life on the trauma ward. With determination, strength, and a dark sense of humor, they achieve the demanding and inspiring task of saving lives in a system that sometimes seems designed to do the opposite.