Juha Lagström

The Inspector

Surrealistic black comedy about a safe insurance inspector looking into one company's fate.

Rakkaus ja laki

Lapua 1976

On April 13th 1976, a devastating munitions factory accident shook the town of Lapua, Finland. Hundreds of kilograms of gunpowder ignited, causing an explosion that took the lives of 40 workers. Lapua 1976 tells a story of love, life, perseverance, grief and hope in the face of unbelievable calamity.

Alavilla mailla hallan vaara

Doors & Locks

The life situations of four young people intersect.

On Humility

Feature film made as a graduation work from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts.

Romanssi

A woman meets a man who tells her that they have known each other 11 years ago and wishes to take her out. Woman does not recall him and in her mind she thinks back and goes through several random meetings from the past, yet he does not seem to be any of those men from her past. Woman continues the relationship and tries to solve the mystery, which at the end is revealed.

August

Summer begins, Aku graduates high school and faces a great emptiness. As his girlfriend, parents and friends all leave the city, it looks to be the dullest summer ever. Everything changes at Midsummer when Aku meets Juli, a beautiful, strange and wild girl. Juli asks Aku for a ride to eastern Finland. Aku agrees – without any idea what he's getting himself into.

Oi, vielä jää

The past interferes the future - takes the present and happiness hostage. A silent short film about the illusion of innocent love.