The documentary describes the strong-minded and fearless Estonian Ilon Wikland's childhood and growth towards adolescent and independence. We learn about her life in Tallinn and Haapsalu, as she tells us about her estranged relation to her parents and how her grandparents ended up taking care of her. Her passion for playing lively with her friends and dog Tito is established with originals stills, archive footage, re-enactments and usage of her own drawings. She explains how the war affected her and other people's life in Estonia. Stills and archive footage of the time display how Ilon is eventually sent alone to Sweden as a refugee half a year after the destructive bombing of Tallinn in 1944. Helped by her artist aunt in Stockholm she is inspired to get herself an art education. Later she encounters her coming employer and workmate for the following 40 years, Astrid Lindgren. Ilon's stories about her work with Astrid Lindgren unfolds the exciting creational processes of children book classics like The Brother's Lionheart and Karlsson-on-the-roof. The film also deals with Ilon's Estonian identity today and how she experienced visiting Estonia together with Astrid after a break of almost fifty years.

Kinbaku, "tight binding", is a Japanese style of bondage which involves tying up the bottom using simple yet visually intricate patterns, with several pieces of rope usually hemp or jute. In Shinto religion, in order to make something sacred, man will tie a rope around it. This sacred quality of the tying can be applied also to Kinbaku, which is an erotic, spiritual, artistic connection between the people who are doing it. It started with samurais capturing enemies on battlefield 500 years ago. "Rope is an extension of arms and communication tool. Two people can really be close and have emotional exhange", says rope master Osada Steve from Tokyo. Osada Steve is student of Haruki Yukimura, a rope master who has tied over 3000 people during his life. "If you look at the Japanese samurai armor, it's tied on. If you've ever received a Japanese gift, it's an exquisite thing", says Asagi Ageha, the most popular star of the new generation. Japan places a ritualistic weightness on everyday acts-a-talent our own culture lacks and turn almost anything, including knots and ropes into art. Nowadays rope is used to create an artistic, meaningful scene between two people. Kinbaku is about creating a beautiful climate and an exciting dramatic experience.

Sandra and Saga, both 14 years old, write a song about how their class used to bully a girl. They perform it together with their class and we learn in more detail about how and why they bully certain pupils in their school. 13 years old Mathias explains and demonstrates how he was bullied for more than five years in his previous school. He performs his song Expression of Hate together with an old hard rock band, which has made music to his lyrics. In this documentary we also learn what teachers, principals and a reputed curator have to say about school bullying.

The visually and verbally playful documentary Rhyme and Nonsense contains a message for grown-ups. Professors Boel Westin, Maria Nikolajeva and Janina Orlov take us on a fascinating journey from Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland to the works of the Scandinavian nursery rhyme master Lennart Hellsing. They introduce us to profound and less conventional ways of looking at modern children’s literature. Author Stella Parland and illustrator Linda Bondestam represent the new generation of creators of books for children. Almost 90-year-old Lennart Hellsing himself appears in the film reading and explaining his writings, some of which were at their time even censored due to their anarchistic content.

What is characteristic for Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty and Rapunzel? What are the common themes of Grimm´s fairy tale? How has the child literature developed since the folk tale era? Where does the morbidity in Max an Moritz originate from? Was Topelius a moral teacher or great story teller? What do literature experts actually think of HC Andersen's fairy tales today? How did the Realistic time view of children literature differ from the Romantic one? How has real characters influenced Tove Jansson's stories? Who was actually the invisible child? In the visually playful documentary Once Upon a Time we meet child book authors, illustrators and researchers pondering these questions among others.

Mathias sings in the Cantores Minores boychoir and dreams about a career as an opera star. Isak is a goalkeeper in Djurgården IF in Sweden and wants to reach NHL. Oleg dances ballet in Estonia and has sights set on the Bolshoi theatre. But what do these 12 year old boys read and what is their take on books? In the documentary Brave Boys we will see how they experience works like Huckleyberry Finn and Robinson Crusoe and how they talk to authors like Ulf Stark.

A Woody Allen inspired documentary following the Scandinavian underground porcelain sculptor Kim Simonsson as he lands on The Big Apple to meet some of the leading American players of the art business since the 1960’s. The curator and museum director Ron Kuchta (Chrysler collection among others), American Ceramics publisher Harry Dennis and the critic Cynthia Nadelman all operate daily in Chelsea – the centre of the art world – which has fifty times more galleries than during Andy Warhol’s time. The gallery owner Nancy Margolis explains why she fell for Simonsson’s weird porcelain sculptures and why she represents him in New York City. Together with Simonsson we visit also his favourite artist Judy Fox, who has become known worldwide for her provocative child sculptures. Simonsson's own art is depicted in form of dramatic installations that visually remind us of the stylistic introduction of the murdered bodies in Henry: Portrait Of A Serial Killer. The documentary ends up in a humorous dinner in which our protagonists discuss among others subjects like the mad mind of the artist and during which interesting sides in Simonsson’s background are revealed. A musical score by Brand New Heavies guitarist Simon Bartholomew rhythms this peculiar road movie with funky New Yorkers and challenging ceramics.

Today we are exposed to more than 1000% more ad messages than we were ten years ago. Digital Signage takes this development to a psychotic level, as it rapidly creates a world where we eventually will be covered in total by digital ads. Representatives from the world’s biggest out door marketing companies as well as pioneering digital signage players explain in this documentary what their businesses are up to and what the future will look like. Marketing and media researchers expand the debate to concern also thoughts on the content and artistic side of ads. Limits for provocation and moral in ads are ventured with opinions on the extreme Oliver Toscani pictures and Hollywood stars campaigning against poverty in Africa. A video artist with her works shown in between ads on giant out door screens in Tokyo takes part in the discussion. Her ads for forgiveness, which show a series of psychotic women breaking down, add a harsh contrast to the rhetoric of the billion dollars ad industry. Marketing Psychosis of the 3rd Degree has been shot in London, New York, Barcelona, Hong Kong, Stockholm and Helsinki.

The Scandinavian Carnegie Art Award is one of the biggest prize money awards for artists in the world. It has traditionally been given to painters and photographers. The Carnegie Art Award 2006 included also for the first time an artist solely known for her video artistry, namely Petra Lindholm from Finland, who won the 3rd prize of 400 000 SEK for her film Until. In the documentary Three years of melancholia we meet on a very personal and intimate level the creator of an exceptionally sensitive and openly sentimental video art untraditional for today’s contemporary video artists. We also learn what Scandinavian gallery owners, critics and museum directors think of Petra Lindholm’s art and of video art in general. The documentary also introduces us to some of Petra’s central friends and family members. The film unfolds in particular the background and inspiration sources to the art films made by Petra during the years 2002-2005.

In the documentary we consecutively follow from idea to realization how the Finnish glass sculpture Hans-Christian Berg creates a large sphere made out of hand-blown parabolic mirrors for an exhibition in a medieval castle on an island in the Swedish archipelago. In this fast-paced and jazz moded film we encounter the inspiration, anguish and honest devotion of an artist who is working towards fulfillment of his dreams. Eventually we learn how a well-designed and intelligently placed glass sculpture can even reflect the continuous paranoia of mankind.

Featuring exclusive interviews with Sobhraj himself, this film tells the amazing and disturbing story of one of the world's most charismatic and amoral killers. Until summer 2004 Charles Sobhraj had successfully conspired to avoid conviction for murder despite being suspected for more than 50 deaths in the 1970s.

The documentary Riot On! shows what happens to a bunch of nobodies from Finland who believe they will become billionaires by creating a company with 20 million dollars invested in them by corporate giants like Nokia, News Corporation and the Bush & Bin Laden families driven Carlyle.

James Man, a mystic grand master in Kung Fu from Hong Kong takes us on a journey across China, which shows us a side of Chinese martial arts previously unknown to the West so far. We meet a world of Kung Fu that turns out to be totally absurd, sinister and mad. In this unique road movie documentary, which is as much shocking as comic in character, Chinese martial arts reveals its true sensational face.

"I was under the impression that the renowned Shaolin Kung Fu and other serious martial arts were not about fighting, but about how to better oneself and to increase ones sense of responsibility - not to brutally dominate others. I would soon discover the dark side of this truth - a side that would shatter my view of Kung Fu forever."

- John Hakalax

A documentary account of how people in Zimbabwe train to become craftsmen in different branches, learn useful practises and then establish businesses of their own. Financing a better future is often what motivates people to get involved in the programme in the first place. Investments and support from some local banks and business centres have contributed to the fact that today we come across more men and women who run metal workshops, medical clinics, shops and other such businesses of their own. The film includes interviews with twelve different people and displays numerous colourful pictures from the rural districts as well as the capital. The program also offers some extraordinary clips from the wild nature in Zimbabwe.

The Isle of Barra, situated at Southwestern tip of Hebrides, is an isolated place with a mysterious magnetism. The film depicts everyday life on this remote island where traditional tasks such as fishing and crafting are carried out. We are captured by the fairy tales and the Celtic folklore of Barra, and the dreamlike beauty of the landscape. The recurrence of symbols, colors and signs have given a poetic quality to this impressionistic documentary film.

A documentary about Robin Hull, the youth world champion in snooker of year 1992.

A short documentary about the film industry in St Petersburg.

A documentary about four well-educated men of varying ages (25-55 years), who share and discuss their sudden unemployment with each other on board a sales boat in the Finnish archipelago.

A documentary about the uncontrolled violence and sexual abuse in the Soviet Army barracks.

Every year in the Soviet Union hundreds of men of 18-20 years old begin a 2-3 year service in the Soviet Army. Every conscript must take the military oath. 1986-1989 more than 15000 conscripts died during their military service. This number does not include the 14000 Soviet soldiers that died in Afghanistan 1979-1989.

Combustion was the first chemical reaction that man put to use. In the art of lighting fires he discovered a way of protecting himself from the cold and danger. Today we live in highly developed information societies thanks to the energy that the combustion processes produce in powerplants and engines.

But while combustion benefits us it threatens our existence by the damage it does to our atmosphere. In order to combat this threat we must learn to understand the chemical processes in combustion. The knowledge about combustion that we now possess comes as a result of man's lengthy and tenacious attempt to understand Chemistry in Flames and Fire.

Students of a Technological University in Finland synthesize a basket of beer out of the most basic material available.

Entertaining report series of the nightlife in Helsinki.

A British airplane en route to Lapland is shot down by an unidentified aircraft. 215 Xmas vacationers perish. 22 minutes later, a NATO base in Northern Norway is hit by a missile originating from the same flying object. A commando team is sent to inspect the area where the object was last tracked by satellites.

The player is one of the investigating NATO commandos.

In this 3D action adventure game the player needs more than trigger-happiness in oder to make it to the next level. Critical analysis, mythological studies, strategic and tactical thinking are the main means of survival.

An action-adventure game set in space with natural science based scholastic tasks integrated to the story line.

In Envoy you are Commander Hunt, undercover investigator in year 2079. Your task is to find a potential saboteur on OASIS-1, a giant space station responsible for maintaining a synthetic ozone layer over our planet. But upon docking procedure, OASIS-1 is suddenly shut down in another sabotage attempt, and you find yourself spinning in space. Your only help is an annoying robot pet dog, Spanky whose interactive scientific data base is your best shot in figuring out an evacuation plan.

The Blobjob is the first safety game designed to reach people about drugs, violence, sex, fire and traffic accidents while playing an adventure game.

In The Blobjob five synthetic humans, Nanoblobs, are sent on a simple errand to deliver a supersecret formula to the patents office. They all disappear. You are Ridley, a lowly security officer at NanoBlob Corporation. Finding the Nanoblobs is the only way to secure you from getting blobbed.

A historical recall of major white-collar crimes in Finland.