Original title: Tummien perhosten koti
Year: 2008
Runtime: 1 hour, 42 minutes
Country: Finland
Language: Finnish
Subtitles: English (.srt)
Genre: Drama

Director: Dome Karukoski

Cast:
Niilo Syväoja … Juhani Johansson
Tommi Korpela … Olavi Harjula
Kristiina Halttu … Irene Harjula
Kati Outinen … Tyyne
Pertti Sveholm … Erik Johansson
Matleena Kuusniemi … Maire Johansson
Eero Milonoff … Salmi
Marjut Maristo … Vanamo Harjula
Roope Karisto … Sjöblom
Ville Saksela … Rinne
Niko Vakkuri … Hermanni Hämäläinen
Iiro Panula … Sulkava
Henri Huttunen … Simola
Heikki Nousiainen … Sosiaalijohtaja Rantala
Matti Onnismaa … Viranomainen

Plot/Synopsis:
Haunted by his traumatic past and cautious about the prospects of an uncertain future, a fourteen year old boy named Juhani winds up in an isolated boys’ home known as The Island in this adaptation of author Leena Lander’s popular novel of the same name. Juhani has been shuttled between foster homes and temporary families for the past six years, leaving any prospect of stability in his life a faded dream. When Juhani winds up in a remote shelter for troubled youth known as The Island, he has little idea of how ruthless superintendent Olavi Harjula can truly be. In addition to Harjula and the six other boys, The Island is also home to the superintendent’s wife Irene, the couple’s two young daughters, and Tynne – who tends to the local livestock in addition to catering all the meals. As the situation on The Island grows unbearable and Juhani is forced to deal with such difficult issues as forgiveness and responsibility, the boy without a past becomes determined not to let the future slip through his fingers. ~ Jason Buchanan, Allrovi

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The Home of Dark Butterflies (2008)
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Original title: Kielletty hedelmä
Year: 2009
Runtime: 1 hour, 37 minutes
Country: Finland | Sweden
Language: Finnish
Subtitles: English (.srt)
Genre: Drama

Director: Dome Karukoski

Cast:
Marjut Maristo … Raakel
Amanda Pilke … Maria
Malla Malmivaara … Eeva
Joel Mäkinen … Toni
Jarkko Niemi … Jussi
Olavi Uusivirta … Johannes
Timo Tikka … Luukas
Jani Volanen … Ilari
Kristoffer Ala-Ketola … Maria’s brother #1
Mazhar Albekoglu … Kerjäläinen
Sofia Blanco … Maria’s sister #2
Mikko Erä-Esko … Juoppo
Boris Glibusic … Man in a night club #1
Bojko Ivanov … Waitor
Lotta Kaihua … Tuuli

Plot/Synopsis:
Though seldom discussed outside of Scandinavia, Finland houses one of the most conservative religious communities in Western Europe. The Laestadians, a group of about 110,000 people, recall the Mennonites with their insistence on taking scripture literally and forbidding their members from partaking in all pleasures deemed hedonistic and “worldly” — such as dancing, premarital sex, alcohol, television, movies, and birth control. Director Dome Karukoski’s melodramatic, brooding, coming-of-age feature Forbidden Fruit examines how two Laestadian teens cope with the impositions foisted upon them by the surrounding community. At the center of it all is Maria, a brass-tongued young woman who rejects the Laestadian community’s asceticism straightaway and moves to metropolitan Helsinki. Alongside her headfirst plunge into a no-holds-barred lifestyle, she rationalizes her choices by leaning on the idea that she can always return to the Laestadians and have her sins washed clean at a later point. Meanwhile, the community elders grow deeply concerned over Maria’s decision to leave the fold, and send the young woman’s best friend, über-conservative Raakel out into the world to bring the prodigal back. Unsurprisingly, Raakel adores the worldly pleasures she experiences and soon caves into them, demonstrating no desire whatsoever to return to the cocoon of self-denial in which she was kept. ~ Nathan Southern, Allrovi

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Forbidden Fruit (2009)
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Original title: Hymypoika
Year: 2003
Runtime: 1 hour,4 minutes
Country: Finland
Language: Finnish
Subtitles: English (.srt)
Genre: Drama

Director: Jukka-Pekka Siili

Cast:
Jussi Nikkilä … Taavi
Reino Nordin … Jere
Jarkko Niemi … Markus
Jenni Banerjee … Reetta
Ville Kivelä … Sami
Mervi Takatalo … Mira
Evi Suppala … Jenni
Laura Malmivaara … Helena Pääkkönen
Ville Virtanen … Jeren isä Juhani
Kari Heiskanen … Juristi
Kari Hietalahti … Taavin isä
Milka Ahlroth … Taavin ätti
Esko Mäkelä … Nettideittimies
Elina Stirkkinen … Nettideittinainen
Markku Peltola … Samin isä

Plot/Synopsis:
A handful of jaded teenagers fall into a strange game with disturbing results in this drama from Finland. Taavi is an 18-year-old whose wealthy parents died when he was young. Now that he’s of age and is soon to graduate from high school, Taavi has inherited his family’s mansion and enough money to last him for life. Taavi enjoys recording everything around him with his digital video camera, and when the graduation party he throws for his friends turns into a drunken bacchanal, he videotapes his friends Sami, Jeri, and Markus having sex with a girl who has passed out. While watching the video the next day, Taavi poses a challenge to his friends — that they should each tape themselves having sex with a different woman, and whoever brings in the best and most unusual results will win a prize. The four young men agree to the contest, but soon playful voyeurism gives way to something uglier and more desperate as the boys go to greater lengths to top their friends in kinkiness. ~ Mark Deming, Allrovi

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