Jarmo Jääskeläinen

Vacuum-Cleaner Salesmen

Three vacuum cleaner salesmen go door-to-door selling dreams of dust-free homes and personal ambitions in a bleak Finland hit by the worst recession in history.

Jätkän tie

Retired lumber jacks talk about their careers in forest industry of Lapland.

The Unknown Face of Finland in War

Documentary about Finnish concentration camps build for Russians inhabiting the Karelia area during the Continuation War.

Don't Tell Daddy

In the freer climate of the 1990s, some young women from Estonia are enticed into Finland to work as dancers and entertainers. Many, like 18 years old Irma, find themselves doing striptease.

Eestlase elu

A documentary about the life of an ordinary Estonian family, which the film group followed for 14 months after the monetary reform in 1992. The background is the emergence of statehood in Estonia.