Pirjo Honkasalo

Pirjo Honkasalo

Director · Actor · Writer

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Pirjo Honkasalo is a highly established director, cinematographer and scriptwriter. She directed several feature films in the 1970s and 80s together with Pekka Lehto, including Flame Top which was in Cannes Competition in 1980. In the 1990s, she continued alone and turned to feature documentaries, directing the prize winning trilogy Mysterion, Tanjuska and the 7 Devils, and Atman. Since then, she has directed the stunningly beautiful The 3 Rooms of Melancholia (2004), and her return to fiction was Concrete Night in 2012.

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Helsinki, Forever

Helsinki, Forever

2008

The Dinosaur

The Dinosaur

2021

Orenda

Orenda

2025

Uuno Turhapuro

Uuno Turhapuro

1973

250 Grammes – A Radioactive Testament

250 Grammes – A Radioactive Testament

1983

Portraits of Women

Portraits of Women

1970

FILMOGRAPHY

ACTOR5

DIRECTOR19

WRITER15

PRODUCER3

EDITOR9

CINEMATOGRAPHER16

SOUND2

CREW4