About
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
Orenda2025 · Director
Donner - Private2021 · Writer
Concrete Night2013 · Screenplay, Director
ITO – A Diary of an Urban Priest2010 · Director, Writer, Editor, Director of Photography
The Interrogation2009 · Director of Photography
Helsinki, Forever2008 · Thanks
The 3 Rooms of Melancholia2004 · Writer, Director, Editor, Producer, Director of Photography
Fire-Eater1998 · Director
Ingmar Bergman on Life and Work1998 · Director of Photography
Atman1997 · Director, Writer, Director of Photography, Cinematography
The Cinderella of Tallinn1996 · Writer, Director
Christmas in the Distance1994 · Thanks
Tanjuska and the 7 Devils1993 · Producer, Director, Editor, Director of Photography
Mysterion1991 · Still Photographer, Screenplay, Other, Editor, Director, Director of Photography
Da Capo1985 · Director, Screenplay, Editor
250 Grammes – A Radioactive Testament1983 · Editor, Writer, Producer, Director
Nine Ways to Approach Helsinki1982 · Editor, Director of Photography
Flame Top1980 · Director, Screenplay
Two Forces1979 · Director of Photography, Writer, Editor
The Sign of Danger1978 · Writer, Director