Original title: Föda

Documentary film, 13 minutes

A young woman who has suffered eating disorders half of her life suddenly gets pregnant. She faces the challenges of eating properly and staying healthy. An intimate story about balancing between motherhood and a difficult illness.

Director, cinematographer, editor: Mervi Junkkonen
Music & sound Design: Girilal Baars
Graphics & picture manipulation : Natasha Danhberg
Color grading: HP Vitikainen / Zone2
Production: Mervi Junkkonen / Little Red House Films
With the support of AVEK, Finnish Cultural Foundation, The Cultural Department/Film, Uppsala County Council

Original title: Jälki elämässä - Neljä tarinaa kidutuksesta

Documentary film, 58 minutes

Kebi, Serge, Musa, and Hector come from different parts of the world, but they have one thing in common: they have all been tortured in their home countries. Contrary to their expectations, they survived the torture and they now all live in Finland. Life goes on, but with certain limitations. The torture has had a severe impact on them. It has affected their minds, self-esteem and sleep. And the rise of an anti-immigration atmosphere in Finland does not help the situation. In the film, the stories of the four men are interwoven into a common experience of what it is like to try to live on after being tortured.

Director, script writer: Mervi Junkkonen
Cinematographer: Vesa Taipaleenmäki
Editor: Annukka Lilja and Mervi Junkkonen
Sound design: Esa Nissi
Music: Girilal Baars
Production: Mika Ronkainen / Klaffi Productions
With the support of YLE TV1, Finnish Film Foundation, AVEK, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland, Finnish Cultural Foundation

AWARDS
Quality Award of Finnish Council for Cinema, Finland 2012

Website: http://www.klaffi.com/After_Life/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AfterLifeTheDocumentary

Original title: I en klang av tystnad

Documentary film, 29 minutes

Silence can be a friend or a foe. It can be a place or a state of mind. Swedish artists talk about their relationships with silence and express it in their art in the old churches of Jämtland and Härjedalen.

Director, editor: Mervi Junkkonen
Cinematographers: Mervi Junkkonen and Stefan Ek
Sound design: Girilal Baars
Production: Little Red House Films and KajRolKultur
With the support of Filmpool Jämtland and Church of Sweden

Original title: FÖRE/EFTER - Mission i Afghanistan

Documentary film, 21 minutes

What drives a man or a woman to volunteer for a war? Does the experience change a person? Four Swedish ISAF-20 soldiers of different ages and backgrounds reflect on their thoughts before and after their mission in Afghanistan: their motives for going, their feelings about death, their experiences of real action and their views on the war. Through their photos and film clips, we get to travel with them to Afghanistan.

Director , script writer editor: Mervi Junkkonen and Natasha Dahnberg
Cinematographer: Mervi Junkkonen
Sound design: Girilal Baars
Production: Mervi Junkkonen / Little Red House Films
With the support of Film i Uppland and Filmregion Stockholm-Mälardalen

Documentary film, 28 minutes

Jarno was addicted to drugs and alcohol and struggling with depression. He was also well-known to police because of his graffiti hobby. Then everything changed three years ago, when Jarno converted to Islam. His new Muslim name became Uthman. The film tells the story of a young man balancing between his old and new identities.

Director and script writer: Mervi Junkkonen
Cinematographers: Mervi Junkkonen and Jani Kumpulainen
Editor: Hanna Asunta and Mervi Junkkonen
Sound design: Anssi Tamminen
Production: Sami Jahnukainen / Mouka Filmi Oy
With the support of YLE TV1 Tositarina

Documentary film, 7 minutes

An old woman living in an apartment under a noisy bridge in Porto is preparing lunch. The smell of food attracts the neighborhood dogs. An intimate meeting and a gentle insight into her daily life.

Director, cinematographer, editor: Mervi Junkkonen
Sound design and music: Girilal Baars
Production: Little Red House Films
With the support of Film i Uppland and Finnish Cultural Foundation

Original title: Hiljainen tila

Documentary film, 52 minutes

In the Autumn of 2002 the cows of the Junkkonen farm are taken to the slaughterhouse. The wheels of progress roll onwards, but two middle-aged people get left behind, Maija and Pentti Junkkonen. The small municipality of Oulunsalo is planning factories, business parks, and a new 4-lane road which would cut through the farmers' fields. The old ways of making a living are dying. The oldest daughter, director Mervi Junkkonen, realizes that she herself is part of the reason why her parents decided to give up their livelihood - there is no one to take over the farm.

Director and script writer: Mervi Junkkonen
Cinematographers: Mervi Junkkonen and Vesa Taipaleenmäki
Editor: Tuuli Kuittinen
Sound design: Esa Nissi
Music: Girilal Baars,
Production: Kimmo Paananen and Mika Ronkainen / Klaffi Productions
With the support of YLE TV1, Finnish Film Foundation, AVEK and Mediakeskus POEM

AWARDS
Risto Jarva Prize / Tampere Film Festival, Finland 2005, Award of Excellence / Yamagata International Film Festival, Japan 2005, 2nd Prize / Filmmaker Film Festival, Italy 2005, Quality Award of Finnish Council for Cinema, Finland 2005

Documentary film, 16 minutes

Aarne, 86, is living alone on his old farm in the company of wild cats. His life consists of small daily household chores, for which old age has set its limits.

Director and script writer: Mervi Junkkonen,
Cinematographers: Tuomo Hutri
Editor: Mervi Junkkonen
Sound design: Esa Nissi
Production: Kimmo Paananen and Mika Ronkainen / Klaffi Productions
With the support of YLE TV 1 and Finnish Film Foundation

AWARDS
Quality Award of Finnish National Council for Cinema, Finland 2006

Original title: Saanan tahto

Documentary film, 42 minutes

For Saana nature has always been a dear friend and a source of inspiration. But her dream of an organic farm is shattered, when her own body fails her. As Saana's condition gets worse, she has to find a new direction for her life without losing herself.

Director, script writer, cinematographer: Mervi Junkkonen
Editor: Katja Pällijeff
Sound design: Anne Tolkkinen
Production Sonja Lindén /University of Art and Design Helsinki UIAH

Documentary film, 12 minutes

José owns a little barber-shop in the old quarters of Porto, Portugal. Armando is a barber, too, and they have been working side by side a long time now. But like oil and water, the two men's characters won't mix.

Director, script writer, cinematographer: Mervi Junkkonen
Editor: Samu Kuukka
Sound design: Micke Nyström
Music: Niko Pihlaja
Production: Mervi Junkkonen / University of Art and Design Helsinki UIAH

AWARDS
Gold Hugo for Best Student Film / Chicago Film Festival, USA 2003, Fibresci Award / International Documentary Film Festival of Amsterdam IDFA, Netherlands 2002, Best Documentary and Cinematography, International Student Film festival of Santiago, Chile 2002, Special Mention, Arktisen upeeta Film Festival, Finland 2002