Pirjo Honkasalo
Directing
Born February 22, 1947 in Helsinki, Finland
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.
Filmography
Orenda
The Dinosaur
Self
Donner - Private
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
Self
Concrete Night
ITO – A Diary of an Urban Priest
The Interrogation
Helsinki, Forever
The 3 Rooms of Melancholia
Fire-Eater
Ingmar Bergman on Life and Work
Atman
The Cinderella of Tallinn
Christmas in the Distance
Tanjuska and the 7 Devils
Mysterion
Da Capo
250 Grammes – A Radioactive Testament
Nine Ways to Approach Helsinki
Flame Top
Two Forces
Self
Ikäluokka
The Earth Is a Sinful Song
Uuno Turhapuro
Nainen raitiovaunussa (uncredited)
Hangover
Hellyys
Marja pieni!
Laulu tulipunaisesta kukasta
Pilvilinna
Portraits of Women
Film Crew Member (uncredited)
The Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth