Tuula Nikkola (Director)
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Works
Akvaariorakkaus
Waitress Saara meets handsome journalist Joni, and soon moves in to live with him. Joni tries his best to satisfy Saara sexually but, disturbed by violent lesbian fantasies, she is unable to experience orgasm. Trying to cope with the situation, Saara has another brief affair back in her old home town.
Release Date1993-01-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobScript Supervisor
Charactersd (uncredited)
Vote Count17
My Name Is Dingo
A boy abandoned by his father wants to become Finland's biggest rock star.
Release Date2024-12-25
DepartmentDirecting
JobFirst Assistant Director
Charactersd Hotellivieras
Vote Count5
Snot and Splash: The Mystery of Disappearing Holes
Snot and Splash travel to their grandmother's house in the small town of Mouthwash for a winter holiday. Once there, they discover that everything is a little off in what used to be a very ordinary town. The strangest thing is that holes are disappearing from the town. Snot and Splash set out to investigate and manage to get on the trail of a local dentist, Migrén Junior. However, the investigation is in danger of failing when messy Snot and diligent Splash get into an argument with each other. How can Mouthwash be restored and the holes put back in place if the boys can't work together? The only way to restore the world is for the brothers to work together.
Release Date2024-01-19
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Charactersd TV-toimittaja Toisaalla
Vote Count7
At Home - Finland
Isolated is an antology of short films made by seven Finnish film directors during the covid-19 pandemic. The films are about encountering oneself in isolation. People feel loneliness and it erupts in absurd ways. Family members witness unexpected reactions during the crisis.
Release Date2020-07-19
Charactersd Uutisääni
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic
Jaakko and Sirpa have never met face to face, but talk on the phone every day. When Jaakko hears news about Sirpa's declining health, he decides to go meet her in another city. It's not the easiest decision, because he's blind and paralyzed from the chest down - and he has to make the journey alone. To get there, Jaakko must rely on the help of five strangers. What could go wrong?
Release Date2021-09-10
DepartmentProduction
JobLine Producer
Charactersd A Woman on a Station Platform
Vote Count58
Sisu
When an ex-soldier who discovers gold in the Lapland wilderness tries to take the loot into the city, German soldiers led by a brutal SS officer battle him.
Release Date2022-09-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobFirst Assistant Director
Vote Count2884
Aurora
A carefree commitment phobic woman falls for a man with a small daughter whilst helping him to find a wife before he dies.
Release Date2019-01-25
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Vote Count29
Lapland Odyssey
Lapland Odyssey is a comedy about Janne, a man from Lapland in northern Finland, a man who has made a career out of living on welfare. Inari, his girlfriend, is tired of Janne's incapability of getting a grip on life, Janne wasn't even able to buy a digital TV box that Inari had given money for. Inari gives an ultimatum: a digital box needs to arrive by dawn or she leaves. Janne sets out into the night with his two friends to find a box. On their way to the city of Rovaniemi, Janne and his friends face many challenges, obstacles and temptations. They learn that they need to be daring. There's no room to give into bitterness. The most important thing isn't success, but rather the journey in itself.
Release Date2010-10-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobScript Supervisor
Vote Count100
Ricky Rapper
Ricky Rapper is a ten year old boy who lives with his aunt Serena and likes to play drums and rap. His aunt breaks her leg, leading to cousin Fanny moving in to take care of the household. Fanny is very strict and that means no more drums for Ricky. With the help of his downstair neighbor Nelly, Ricky seeks to restore the normal order to the apartment.
Release Date2008-02-15
DepartmentProduction
JobProduction Manager
Vote Count10
The Prince of Soap
Screenwriter Ilona falls in love with Kalle, the main star of the series, and mixes fact and fiction when she starts writing a romance between herself and the star. Jealous producer Raakel does everything she can to destroy Ilona's plans.
Release Date2006-02-10
DepartmentDirecting
JobScript Supervisor
Vote Count10
Raid
Raid is a mysterious drifter and ex-criminal who comes and goes as he pleases. He has been away from the country for an extended period of time but learns on his return that his ex-girlfriend Tarja has presumably died in a fire that he soon discovers was a larceny. He is also contacted by inspector Jansson, who he knows from the past regarding the murder of a protestor. Raid begins his investigation and soon finds that there's more to the cases than meets the eye.
Release Date2003-01-31
DepartmentDirecting
JobScript Supervisor
Vote Count34
Kummeli Stories
The war between Luxembourg and Finland sets the outline to a set of comedic stories about a rally team, gay couple's fishing trip, two hoodlums' last school days in the spring and a haunted hotel among others.
Release Date1995-10-20
DepartmentProduction
JobProduction Manager
Vote Count30
Badding
The life of Rauli "Badding" Somerjoki, a Finnish singer.
Release Date2000-08-18
DepartmentDirecting
JobScript Supervisor
Vote Count17
On the Road to Emmaus
A cynical city dweller returns to his hometown to sell his family home, but becomes unexpectedly nostalgic.
Release Date2001-10-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobScript Supervisor
Vote Count12
Tits
Pipsa wants a better life. She is sure that new breasts will help her to achieve it. But where to get the money for the surgery?
Release Date2014-09-01
DepartmentProduction
JobProduction Manager
Vote Count16
Dog Nail Clipper
Bright young soldier Mertsi suffers a permanent brain injury in the Second World War. In the late 1940s he wanders around the Finnish countryside looking for simple work and relying on other people's help. A workmate, Ville, tells him about his clever Spitz dog back home and the problems with her overlong dew claws. Together with his helpful war buddy Eetvi, Mertsi joins a lumber camp in the middle of a freezing winter, tries hard but finds the work there too strenuous for his body and mind. While he still sees nightmares about the war, in the daytime he keeps dreaming and worrying about the dog...
Release Date2004-02-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobScript Supervisor
Vote Count18
Unknown Soldier
The film follows Finnish army machine gun company in Continuation War against Soviet Union, 1941–1944. Based on Väinö Linna's best selling novel Tuntematon Sotilas (The Unknown Soldier) and the novel's uncensored version, Sotaromaani (A War Novel).
Release Date2017-10-27
DepartmentDirecting
JobSecond Assistant Director
Vote Count221
Ganes
Remu grew up in modest conditions. He dropped out from schoold during his teen age years and is making career as a small time criminal. His family's destiny is about to come true, and it's going to be the usual: jail, alcoholism and violent death. After learning about rock music Remu learns to play drums and pushes himself into different bands. His first time in jails interrupts his music career, but after being released he starts his own band; Hurriganes.
Release Date2007-09-28
DepartmentProduction
JobLine Producer
Vote Count23
The Mine
A young and ambitious civil servant Jussi finds himself being in charge of the environmental permit of a huge nickel and uranium mine in Northern Finland. The Talvivaara mine, led by a charismatic globe trotting visioner Pekka Perä is introducing an entirely new method of collecting minerals whilst creating jobs in one of the poorest areas in Scandinavia. Jussi slowly discovers that he has been led astray by several people and that the new method has serious downsides he did not forsee. The mine is causing environmental hazards that are being hushed down. A new application for another permit is brough to his table by the same mine. Along with the application comes an interesting job offer and a chance of a new beginning. Jussi has to decide whether he will play along and if so, with whom.
Release Date2016-01-22
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Vote Count20
Ricky Rapper and the Bicycle Thief
Summer vacation has just begun. In honor of it, Serena Rapper and Lennart Lindberg decide to go on holiday. Ricky gets a new bicycle as a consolation, but it disappears mysteriously. Ricky and Nelly Noodlehead go looking for it which turns into a thrilling adventure.
Release Date2010-02-12
DepartmentProduction
JobProduction Manager
Vote Count6
Tom of Finland
Touko Laaksonen, a decorated officer, returns home after a harrowing and heroic experience serving his country in World War II, but life in Finland during peacetime proves equally distressing. He finds peace-time Helsinki rampant with persecution of the homosexual and men around him even being pressured to marry women and have children. Touko finds refuge in his liberating art, specialising in homoerotic drawings of muscular men, free of inhibitions. His work – made famous by his signature ‘Tom of Finland’ – became the emblem of a generation of men and fanned the flames of a gay revolution.
Release Date2017-02-24
DepartmentDirecting
JobScript Supervisor
Vote Count140
Twisted Roots
In this stylish Finnish drama, the secrets and desires of a family can no longer be suppressed. Mikko turns out to have a hereditary illness. Since then he has been worried. How long can he continue to run the family business that he and inherited from his father, just like his illness? And how does he tell his teenage daughter and adult son that they might have the wrong genes? The imaginative eight-year-old Lumi, adopted from China, also cannot get away from her roots.
Release Date2009-10-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Vote Count5
Ripa Hits the Skids
A week-long glimpse into the wretched existence of Ripa, a long-haired, hard-drinking lug. He is also a filmmaker-wannabee, whose last two projects were condemned for their sex and violence. A Parasite Deluxe, who barely recalls his previous night, Ripa cruises the bars and meets bank-teller Tiina.
Release Date1993-02-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobScript Supervisor
Vote Count9
A Light That Never Goes Out
Successful classical flutist Pauli returns to his small hometown after a breakdown. Reconnecting with old schoolmate Iiris, he is drawn into experimental music. Pauli, who has always sought perfection, is drawn to her chaotic energy, and finds comfort in their sonic experiments.
Release Date2025-09-12
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Vote Count7
Pony and Birdboy
Pony and Birdboy tells a story of seven-year-old girl Pony, who doesn’t want to go to school, and big-mouthed Birdboy who has solution to all possible problems. Humoristic family-film Pony and Birdboy is partly based on Veera Salmi’s popular children’s book The Book of Pony and Birdboy, which rich humor and anarchist hustle have brought the book as a favorite of children.
Release Date2018-08-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobFirst Assistant Director
Vote Count2
Producing Adults
Longtime couple Venla and Antero come to a serious impasse. After years with Antero, Venla wants to start a family, but her boyfriend, worried that parenthood will stifle his speed-skating career, secretly gets a vasectomy. Determined to have a child, Venla seeks help from a female fertility doctor, a decision that breeds new possibilities for the prospective mother when she falls in love with the doctor.
Release Date2004-09-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobScript Supervisor
Vote Count27
They Have Escaped
Two troubled youths break out of their halfway house and make their way to one's home.
Release Date2014-10-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Vote Count31
Ensi tiistaina Brahmsia
Release Date1997-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobScript Supervisor
Fantasy
In 1989 a country boy doesn't want to eat potatoes at home. He wants to introduce something more exotic to his parents. One day he takes his savings and his moped to a pizzeria in town.
Release Date2016-03-11
DepartmentProduction
JobLine Producer
Vote Count2
Harjunpää ja kiusantekijät
Inspector Timo Harjunpää works on harassment and extortion campaign case against successful computer expert.
Release Date1993-09-24
DepartmentDirecting
JobScript Supervisor
Vote Count6
After Everything
After EverythingThe film shows a dystopian world where brutality and inhumanity are commonplace and part of everyday routine. The atmosphere of doom is emphasized by the combination of black and white footage, harsh settings and industrial noise music. The powerful story leads to a situation in which brutality is victorious, yet beyond total destruction there is also room for a new beginning.
Release Date2014-03-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
The Log
The female director wants full frontal nudity from her male lead, but the actor has a big problem with it.
Release Date2016-03-11
DepartmentProduction
JobLine Producer
Vote Count6
100 Liters of Gold
Middle-aged sisters Taina and Pirkko are famous for their Finnish farmhouse ale called “sahti”. The third sister, Päivi, is getting married, and she asks her sisters if they can make 100 liters of sahti for the wedding. Unfortunately, it’s too good not to drink it. The sisters wake up in a horrible hangover and realize they have drunk it all. They have 24 hours to find 100 liters of good sahti, or they will lose all the respect.
Release Date2025-03-28
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Vote Count29
Beauty and the Bastard
Even though Nelli's parents have the perfect career and man planned for her, she dreams of becoming a singer. In a studio, she meets a young hip hop artist Sune and asks him to help her make a demo tape.
Release Date2005-10-21
DepartmentDirecting
JobScript Supervisor
Vote Count42
The Storage
Antero Rousku is a storeman in a paint store. His job requires raw muscle power, mixing paints and carrying house repair materials around to earn his daily bread. But the basic salary is not enough for Rousku. He also sells a lot of stuff on the side from the storeroom directly to Jylhäkorpi, a frequent visitor, bypassing company bookkeeping. Rousku's colleague in the cellar storeroom is Raninen whose life consists of work, quarreling with his wife, and lottery. Raninen wants to win the main prize but he wants to have the right numbers in exactly the order in which they appear from the lottery machine. Raninen is not the sharpest pencil in the pencil box. Rousku's freedom is threatened by his relationship to the saleswoman Karita. Rousku wants to keep a distance to the woman except in bed. Karita has decided otherwise.
Release Date2011-12-30
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Vote Count17
Where Once We Walked
The stories of the aristocratic Lilliehjelm family, the middle-class Widing family and the poor Kajander family from the Finland's independence through the Civil War and the Roaring Twenties ending during the Second World War.
Release Date2011-10-28
DepartmentDirecting
JobScript Supervisor
Vote Count9
Things We Do for Love
Vaarala, a reserved romantic photographer, has an odd artistic vision of loneliness: he takes serial photos of an empty park bench in remote spaces of nature. When he meets and falls in love with the spirited, unruly Ansa, his ‘bench’ is suddenly filled. But in order to be with her he has to not only overcome his own frailties, but also the impending danger of Ansa’s volatile ex-con ex, and then Ansa herself, a woman prone to impulsiveness and impetuousness.
Release Date2013-02-01
DepartmentProduction
JobLine Producer
Vote Count13
Game Over
A movie inspired by a true crime - the coldblooded Heino double murder, committed by a group of teenagers - that shocked Finland in 2001.
Release Date2005-08-26
DepartmentDirecting
JobScript Supervisor
Vote Count12
Summer Is Crazy
After the bankruptcy of their fine dining restaurant, the Eerolas are stuck in the seaside village of Nauvo with no clear plan for the future. In the shadow of the father’s depression both the mother and the teenage daughter rebel against the stagnant life, each in their own way. In the magical light of the midnight sun, new loves begin while others come to an end.
Release Date2025-09-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobFirst Assistant Director
Vote Count5
Ricky Rapper and Cool Wendy
Ricky Rapper and Nelly Noodlehead leave for the island, where Fanny Rapper works as the resort hostess. At the same time, Uolevi Horsmaniemi arrives with his daughter Wendy, who is little older than Ricky and Nelly. Wendy's arrival confuses the relationship between Ricky and Nelly, as Nelly begins to spend more and more time with Wendy.
Release Date2012-02-10
DepartmentProduction
JobProduction Manager
Vote Count7
Euthanizer
Euthanizer tells the story of a mechanic who euthanises sick and old pets as a side job. Despite the grim work, he has a soft spot for the animals. Trouble stirs when the owner of a dog he was supposed to end realises that the canine is still alive. The only innocent party in the drama that ensues is the dog itself.
Release Date2017-11-24
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Vote Count58
#lovemilla
Release Date2013-05-31
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
Overseas and Under Your Skin
Ida is a woman who was adopted to Finland from Africa as a child. Ida is an unemployed seamstress approaching her thirties and still lives at home with her activist mother Kati. Kati wants to fix her daughter's life and offers her a job at her work. Encouraged by her new friend Ville, Ida, however, sets out for Berlin in order to find a job and to prove to her mother that she can manage on her own. Meanwhile, Kati has been told that she is seriously ill, but she does not want to mention it to Ida in fear of standing in the way of her daughter's struggle for independence. Ida wants to have a life of her own, but what will she have left at the end of the day?
Release Date2009-01-23
DepartmentProduction
JobProduction Manager
Vote Count9
Blue Corner
Dreams perimeter Matti Ijäksen has written and directed, praised to the skies domestic film, which is in addition to starring always convincing trace Knocking Petteri Summanen and Sulevi Peltola. It is therefore goes without saying that expectations were high in its case. But how it happened? Dreams own peripheral clearly some form of casing, which does not let therein, but hits the deck of the cut made without the kehääkin - Joint events yhteenparsimisen means.
Release Date2002-10-11
DepartmentDirecting
JobScript Supervisor
Vote Count7
The Surrealist and His Naughty Hand
A film about Finnish artist Kalervo Palsa who was completely neglected by his peers and time.
Release Date2014-09-12
DepartmentDirecting
JobScript Supervisor
Vote Count4
Nimby: Not in My Backyard
Mervi is a gay girl living in the hipster quarters of Helsinki. She has been together with Kata for a year, and now they are encouraged by the circumstances to come out from closet. When they do, Mervi realises that she is not the only one in her family with secrets – her parents have been living in an open-bisexual-swinger-relationship for 20 years. On the other hand Kata is pretty surprised that she might be living with a hetero girl that once was dating a neo-nazi. And the ex-boy friend cannot swallow that Mervi is now with a person both of wrong color, and sex. The real threat appears when Kata’s parents arrive from Berlin and the local skinhead chief finds out that a black muslim celebrity politician has arrived to town.
Release Date2020-10-09
DepartmentProduction
JobLine Producer
Vote Count17
The Human Part
Pekka Malmikunnas is a bankrupt, penniless man, who has convinced his family that he is still the CEO of a large IT company. Maintaining this façade in order to save face has become something of a full-time job for him. When Pekka’s parents unexpectedly come for a visit, he throws a lavish family dinner party in order to dispel any doubts. The soirée is a success until Pekka’s god-daughter gets run over by a car. The reckless driver becomes a mutual enemy for the family. The driver tries to atone for his actions, but the situation spirals out of control and Pekka attacks the man. Pekka realizes things have gone too far and decides to tell his family the truth. It does not hurt as much as Pekka thought, bringing the pieces of a once broken family back together.
Release Date2018-12-21
DepartmentDirecting
JobFirst Assistant Director
Vote Count14
Harbour Brothers
Finland in the 50s saw a time where boats from all over the world docked in the harbor city of Kotka. In addition to transporting goods, the sailors brought with them another import: jazz, swing and blues. A tale of music-loving, fearless and passionate young men decide to open Fennia, a jazz bar. Soon Fennia achieves legendary status and the men; the Harbour Brothers, play their music and hold court like emperors.
Release Date2004-12-25
DepartmentDirecting
JobScript Supervisor
Vote Count7
Limbo
A quiet staircase of an ordinary office building. Two colleagues, Markku, an older accountant, and Eeva, younger HR manager are heading down the stairs, one after another. It turns out that earlier that day, Eeva has had to tell Markku that he has been fired from the company after many years. Markku is bitter and full of rage. Then something unordinary happens.
Release Date2019-12-21
DepartmentDirecting
JobAssistant Director
Vote Count3
Garbage Prince
Jed (19) walks out on his former life, without destination, without explanation, and gets on a train. He ends up by happenstance in a small eastern town in Finland where he soon comes face to face with the daily rigors of independent life. Coping becomes a challenge for him almost to the point of being an obsession. Of all the people in town, Jed seems to constantly run across the prickly and quick-witted Lulu (17). Gradually, without either of them admitting it, their relationship changes from bickering, picking on each other and a battle of wills to friendship, and as can happen, finally to love.
Release Date2011-07-29
DepartmentProduction
JobProduction Manager
Vote Count6
Flowers and Binding
A black comedy about the dysfunctional relationships, love, and hate; concerning a small town sausage factory manager whose careless love affairs affect the lives of the factory workers as well as the women in his life.
Release Date2004-10-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobScript Supervisor
Vote Count9
Lovemilla
Milla and Aimo are saving up to move out from her alcoholic, zombie-like parents' home. But Aimo's insecurity gets the better of him, and he squanders their savings on bionic muscle enhancements, eventually turning himself into a full-fledged cyborg. Milla, however, doesn't like the new Aimo and leaves him. Heartbroken, Aimo gives up his heart for an unfeeling metal one. Milla resolves to steal it. After all, what's a woman without a man's heart? "Lovemilla" is an anarchic comedy trip through love, robots and bodybuilding.
Release Date2015-02-06
DepartmentProduction
JobLine Producer
Vote Count14