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.

KNOWN FOR

The Dinosaur
2021
Helsinki, Forever
2008
Ingmar Bergman on Life and Work
1998
Portraits of Women
1970
The Earth Is a Sinful Song
1973
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
2014
Donner - Private
2021
Tanjuska and the 7 Devils
1993
250 Grammes – A Radioactive Testament
1983
Uuno Turhapuro
1973
Concrete Night
2013
Two Forces
1979

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
6
Directing
19
Writing
15
Producing
3
Camera
17
Editing
9
Sound
2
Crew
4
2021
The Dinosaur
as Self
2014
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
as Self
1991
Molle: A Director's Portrait of Academian Rauni Mollberg
as Self
1979
Two Forces
as Self
1973
Uuno Turhapuro
as Nainen raitiovaunussa (uncredited)
1970
Portraits of Women
as Film Crew Member (uncredited)