Matti Ijäs — Director (7)
White Marble (1998) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Pala valkoista marmoria
other title: Pala valkoista marmoria
Half-senile Ossi and his wife travel to celebrate Ossi's 75th birthday at an old people's home where most of their friends are already staying. Just before the festivities Ossi suddenly disappears and goes on tour to 'make an inventory of his life'. He checks into a hotel, poses as a publishing director to lure an aspiring female novelist, next travels to bother his old mistress and her new husband with his surprise visit and obnoxious comments, then goes to see his son for the first time in 34 years just to receive an even colder treatment. Meanwhile, his equally demented wife goes looking for him with a local policeman.
White Lies (1994) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Pieniä valheita
director: Matti Ijäs actor: Vesa Vierikko / Pirjo Lankinen
other title: Pieniä valheita
The relationship between a priest's wife and the renovator crackles with passion. While the rectory terrace is being restored, there is a triangular drama at the fore: a priest, a priest’s wife and a renovator.
Blindfolded (1999) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Sokkotanssi
director: Matti Ijäs actor: Martti Suosalo / Walter Gröhn
other title: Sokkotanssi / El baile a ciegas
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 the sea where his father is rumoured to have died. Jontti too must discover that his father is not what he appears to be. When his dad moves away with another woman, Jontti is determined to win him back.
Things We Do for Love (2013) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Kaikella rakkaudella
director: Matti Ijäs actor: Sampo Sarkola / Krista Kosonen
other title: In aller Liebe / 為愛做的一切
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.