Matti Ijäs Movies

Manical portrait of a small businessman.

Fred Daly returns to Ireland with nowhere to live but his car. Then dope-smoking 21-year-old Cathal parks beside him, and brightens up his lonely...

Viltteri, a balding guy in his thirties living in rural northern Finland, is hopelessly clueless about his new role as a married man and the father...

Juuso, Late, and Pyry return from military service to their small village in the Finnish countryside. Finding work is difficult there, so Juuso...

A middle-aged woman wants a child and starts to look for a suitable father when she doesn't succeed in the plan with her husband.

The relationship between a priest's wife and the renovator crackles with passion. While the rectory terrace is being restored, there is a triangular...

When Marja becomes pregnant as a result of an unauthorized relationship, the man denies the whole relationship. A pregnant young woman is left alone....

Kari and Tuula's family happiness is put to the test after Kari ends up on unemployment benefits.

Vaarala, a reserved romantic photographer, has an odd artistic vision of loneliness: he takes serial photos of an empty park bench in remote spaces...

Anders flees his drug debts to his former home village. Once there, he must come to terms with his past.

Merry Christmas is a comical interpretation of the traditional Christmas gospel set in a modern-day Helsinki

Middle-aged Late is building a fence in his family home for a summer break, but he falls in love with his daughter's new friend, 16-year old...

Two 9-year-old boys, Jontti and Länki, grow up in a Finnish seaside town in the 1960s. Länki's biggest dream is to run away on a ship to...

An unemployed actor falls in love with a theater director, who gives him work. Both of them are in relationships, and their little lies gradually...

An asphalt contractor, who has sacrificed his life to make a profit, finds himself in a financial dead-end. The ever gentle-minded road engineer...

Like it or not, almost anyone who has met a really serious poet finds that they have something about them which sets them apart from other people....

A group of three male friends with domestic problems behave badly.

A comedy about lecturer Sakkas, who devotes himself to history in order to find meaning in the world. What happens when a man's frozen heart begins...