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UNKNOWN SOLDIER by award-winning Finnish director Aku Louhimies follows a platoon of Finnish soldiers on a tour of duty that lasts for more than three years at the end of World War II. The film tells the story of Rokka, Kariluoto, Koskela, Hietanen, and their brothers-in-arms, showing how friendship, humor, and the will to live unite these men on their way to and from the battlefield. The war changes each of the soldiers, as well as the lives of those...
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A funny and moving film about the power of imagination and the strength of a community, directed by **Oscar**-nominee Selma Vilhunen. The film follows three young girls, Aisku, Elsa and Alisa whose lives have been transformed by their new interest: hobbyhorses. Despite a lack of understanding by some, the girls bravely and spiritedly pursue their hobby. Official Selection at **Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival**. *"A refreshing...
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The war against Voldemort is not going well; even Muggle governments are noticing. Ron scans the obituary pages of the Daily Prophet, looking for familiar names. Dumbledore is absent from Hogwarts for long stretches of time, and the Order of the Phoenix has already suffered losses.
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As in all wars, life goes on. The Weasley twins expand their business. Sixth-year students learn to Apparate - and lose a few eyebrows in the process. Teenagers...
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Arctic Circle volume 1
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A Finnish police officer discovers a dying Russian sex worker carrying a deadly virus.
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Arctic Circle volume 1
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Nina settles into life in a new city. After first rejecting an offer to work on an assassination case, a dramatic turn linking the murder to Nina's former case forces her to reconsider.
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Harry Potter is midway through his training as a wizard and his coming of age. Harry wants to get away from the pernicious Dursleys and go to the International Quidditch Cup with Hermione, Ron, and the Weasleys. He wants to dream about Cho Chang, his crush (and maybe do more than dream). He wants to find out about the mysterious event that's supposed to take place at Hogwarts this year, an event involving two other rival schools of magic, and a competition...
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Vain muutama kuukausi on kulunut ensimmäisen elokuvan, Ihmeotukset ja niiden olinpaikat, tapahtumista. Gellert Grindelwald on paennut AYT:n (Amerikan Yhdysvaltain taikakongressin) otteesta ja kerää kasaan joukkoja. Hän haluaa, että velhot hallitsevat kaikkia olentoja, joilla ei ole maagisia kykyjä.
Tylypahkan muodonmuutosten opettaja ja Grindelwaldin entinen ystävä Albus Dumbledore lähettää Lisko Scamanderin pysäyttämään Grindelwaldin....
10) Hatching
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12-year-old Tinja is desperate to please her mother, a woman obsessed with presenting the image of a perfect family. One night, Tinja finds a strange egg. She hides it, keeps it warm. When it hatches, what emerges is beyond belief.
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An action-thriller based on a bestselling novel "6/12" by Ilkka Remes. Finland’s Independence Day celebration on December 6 is crudely interrupted by an attack to the Presidential Residence. A set of distinguished guests are taken as hostages. Security service officer Max Tanner is set as the negotiator of the hostage crisis. Tanner must make bold and even painful decisions to figure out who is behind the attack. After all, there are not only human...
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Harry Potter's life is miserable. His parents are dead and he's stuck with his heartless relatives, who force him to live in a tiny closet under the stairs. But his fortune changes when he receives a letter that tells him the truth about himself: he's a wizard. A mysterious visitor rescues him from his relatives and takes him to his new home, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
After a lifetime of bottling up his magical powers, Harry finally...
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Children are a trust given to parents by Allah (God) as much as they are a precious gift. Parents are responsible for the care & upbringing of their children. Parents will be held accountable on the Day of Judgement for how they raised their children. With proper upbringing must come the teaching of Islam and the introduction to who Allah (God) is at an early age so they can develop their Islamic worldview and virtues. A fun way to start introducing...
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There is a door at the end of a silent corridor. And it’s haunting Harry Potter’s dreams. Why else would he be waking in the middle of the night, screaming in terror?
Harry has a lot on his mind for this, his fifth year at Hogwarts: a Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher with a personality like poisoned honey; a big surprise on the Gryffindor Quidditch team; and the looming terror of the Ordinary Wizarding Level exams. But all these things pale...
15) Anna Liisa
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Anna Liisa is Minna Canth's play from 1895. A few days before her marriage Anna Liisa has to decide whether to confront her past or marry another man, who otherwise threatens to reveal her dark secret.
This edition, part of the Finnish Easy Reading series, is written in simplified Finnish, suitable for readers with intermediate Finnish language skills. The play is rewritten in the form of a novel. The book contains also vocabulary footnotes and...
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For twelve long years, the dread fortress of Azkaban held an infamous prisoner named Sirius Black. Convicted of killing thirteen people with a single curse, he was said to be the heir apparent to the Dark Lord, Voldemort.
Now he has escaped, leaving only two clues as to where he might be headed: Harry Potter's defeat of You-Know-Who was Black's downfall as well. And the Azkaban guards heard Black muttering in his sleep, "He's at Hogwarts . . . he's...
17) A Time of Roses
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Set in a dystopian world of gleaming white towers, Sony video monitors and inflatable furniture, where the beautiful inhabitants all dress as Edie Sedgwick-like pixie sprites or medieval page boys out of Logan's Run, the film follows a historian of late 20th century culture (played by Arto Tuominen) researching the mysterious death many years earlier of a free-spirited erotic model. Director Jarva was one of Finland’s most acclaimed fiction filmmakers...
18) Sampo
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Based on the Finnish national epic “Kalevala,” director Aleksandr Ptushko’s ravishing, mystical fantasy tells the story of a sinister witch Louhi (Anna Orochko) who covets the Sampo, a magical, rainbow-colored mill that can produce endless salt, grain, and gold. When the hero Lemminkäinen (Andris Oshin) attempts to stop her, Louhi steals the sun, plunging the world into eternal darkness.
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Critically acclaimed at Venice and SXSW, this charming Finnish romance becomes an atypical action-thriller, empathetically shot from the perspective of a man who is blind and disabled. The brightest moments in movie lover Jaakko's day are shared on the phone with Sirpa, the woman he loves even though they've never met in person. When Sirpa gets difficult news, Jaako decides he must go to her immediately, but will need the help of five kind strangers...
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Ever since Harry Potter had come home for the summer, the Dursleys had been so mean and hideous that all Harry wanted was to get back to the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry. But just as he’s packing his bags, Harry receives a warning from a strange impish creature who says that if Harry returns to Hogwarts, disaster will strike.
And strike it does. For in Harry’s second year at Hogwarts, fresh torments and horrors arise, including...
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