Pirjo Honkasalo
An image from Portraits of Women, one of the productions that also features Pirjo Honkasalo.
Pirjo Honkasalo

Pirjo Honkasalo

February 22, 1947 — 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.

Concrete Night

Concrete Night

2013

The Earth Is a Sinful Song

The Earth Is a Sinful Song

1973

The 3 Rooms of Melancholia

The 3 Rooms of Melancholia

2004

The Interrogation

The Interrogation

2009

Helsinki, Forever

Helsinki, Forever

2008

Fire-Eater

Fire-Eater

1998

Portraits of Women

Portraits of Women

1970

Nine Ways to Approach Helsinki

Nine Ways to Approach Helsinki

1982