Pirjo Honkasalo
Directing
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.
Behind the camera
2025Orenda
Director
2021Donner - Private
Writer
2013Concrete Night
Director & Screenplay
2010ITO – A Diary of an Urban Priest
Director & Writer
2004The 3 Rooms of Melancholia
Director & Writer
1998Fire-Eater
Director
1997Atman
Director & Writer
1996The Cinderella of Tallinn
Director & Writer
1993Tanjuska and the 7 Devils
Director
1991Mysterion
Director & Screenplay
1985Da Capo
Director & Screenplay
1983250 Grammes – A Radioactive Testament
Director & Writer
1982Nine Ways to Approach Helsinki
Director
1980Flame Top
Director & Screenplay
1979Two Forces
Director & Writer
1976Ikäluokka
Director & Writer
1973The Earth Is a Sinful Song
Screenplay
1968The Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth
Director & Writer