Short but enjoyable: Finnish short films about making out and everything else

Teppo Airaksinen, Oskari Sipola, Antti Heikki Pesonen, Jan Ijäs:
Short but enjoyable: Finnish short films about making out and everything else
90 min.

Teppo Airaksinen:
Suurin ja kaunein
(Finland 2008)
27min

Comedy about natural selection. Young man who is worried about forhtcoming early middle-age is taking part in a speed-dating night. He learns that the evolution is all about adapting. Or is it? Why it looks like those who have already love just gets it more and more?

**

Antti Heikki Pesonen:
Mentally Fat
(Finland 2009)
16 min

A shy guy gets hit hard by love.

Sami is a young shy guy who hasn€t got the nerve to approach the opposite sex. After an unusual encounter in a bathroom with a girl called Mira, he loses his heart to her. Will he have the guts to tell her that he truly loves her before it€s too late?
The film is a fresh drama-comedy set in the working class suburbs of Helsinki, Finland.

**

Teppo Airaksinen:
Gig Gang
(Finland 2007)
15min

This time for real!

GIG GANG is a comedy about Eero and Toni, a pair of friends more
interested in playing cops and robbers than doing their jobs cleaning the
warehouse where they work. In their games, Eero always wins while Toni
loses. Things take a turn for the serious when they're accidentally mixed up
in a robbery attempt by a freaky family of criminals. What happens when real
guns take the place of toys? Which of the friends will turn out to be the
hero in real life?

**

Oskari Sipola:
In Between
(Finland 2008)
11min

Child safety locks for preteens.

Satu is thirteen €“ she has a crush Ville. Satu and Ville meet at classmate Riku€s who has suggested, that they could watch some porn from the Internet, as Riku is home alone.

**

Jan Ijäs:
Ghosts
(Finland 2008)
15min

€I€m not dead€ I just exist.€

Film about building what was original build as an envelope factory (located 500 km down from Arctic Circle), now it is center for asylum seekers - warehouse for humans.
- €I just exist, that€s the only word I can use. I€m not dead, I just exist.€

Antti Heikki Pesonen studies film directing at the University of Art and Design Helsinki UIAH, School of Motion Picture, Television and Production Design.

Teppo Airaksinen studies film directing at the University of Art and Design Helsinki UIAH, School of Motion Picture, Television and Production Design. He started his studies in 2004.

Oskari Sipola studies film directing at the University of Art and Design Helsinki UIAH, School of Motion Picture, Television and Production Design. In Between is his first short film in UIAH.

Jan Ijäs studies documentary film directing at the University of Art and Design Helsinki UIAH, School of Motion Picture, Television and Production Design.

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