Director
Pirjo Honkasalo
79 years · Helsinki, Finland · 28 films
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.
Best known for
Filmography 28
Orenda
2025 · Director
The Dinosaur
2021 · Self
Donner - Private
2021 · Writer
Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women
2014 · Self
On Kanopy
Concrete Night
2013 · Screenplay, Director
On OVID
ITO – A Diary of an Urban Priest
2010 · Director, Writer
The Interrogation
2009 · Cinematography
The 3 Rooms of Melancholia
2004 · Writer, Director
Fire-Eater
1998 · Director
Ingmar Bergman on Life and Work
1998 · Cinematography
Atman
1997 · Director, Writer
The Cinderella of Tallinn
1996 · Writer, Director
Tanjuska and the 7 Devils
1993 · Producer, Director
Mysterion
1991 · Screenplay, Editor
Molle: A Director's Portrait of Academian Rauni Mollberg
1991 · Self
Da Capo
1985 · Director, Screenplay
250 Grammes – A Radioactive Testament
1983 · Editor, Writer
Nine Ways to Approach Helsinki
1982 · Editor, Cinematography
Flame Top
1980 · Director, Screenplay
Two Forces
1979 · Self, Cinematography
Ikäluokka
1976 · Director, Writer
The Earth Is a Sinful Song
1973 · Screenplay
Uuno Turhapuro
1973 · Nainen raitiovaunussa (uncredited)
Hangover
1973 · Cinematography
On Cultpix