Illume Movies

Documentary about the great cultural transformation of Helsinki, Finland, in the early 1980's. The birth of new sub-cultures, art galleries and perfor...

Five years in the making, based on six lengthy interviews filmed on six different locations in Saint Petersburg, we meet an outspoken artist who cover...

A documentary film about punk that lives from generation to generation.

The story of Agit Prop, communist band established in 1970.

"Himmlers Kantele Player" - about Finnish student, who decides to leave University of Sorbonne and walk from Paris to Helsinki in the spring of 1935....

A documentary on the executions that took place during and after the Finnish civil war in 1918.

Ten groups of kids from various parts of Finland, aged between 12 and 15, improvise an episode each based on one of the Bible's Ten Commandments.

Many men in the world in order to support their families have to leave families. Our characters go J the North as shift w3ockers and produce gas. Dimi...

Peter von Bagh takes us on a trip to his homeland and Oulu, a small Finnish town, tracing the turbulent changes it has undergone in the 20th century....

Sweep is a road movie to memory, a realization of the need to review footsteps and past events which build myths. The camera gazes at the spaces in-be...

Filmmaker Antti Haase takes us on a personal journey, learning about his fathers’ legacy. Baltic German engineer Gunnar Haase, initially a refugee, ar...

At 37 years old, James Lórien MacDonald begins testosterone treatments as he transitions from female to male.

Director Lou Strömberg’s Filipino stepmother Yolanda is living in Sweden. She is being pressured for money by her sons back home who believe she lives...

A group of Chinese sculptors arrive to build an exotic experience park in the middle of Finnish Lapland. Among them Huang Sheng a young Chinese studen...

A documentary film about three Russian prisoners for life.