Paul-Anders Simma

Paul-Anders Simmai is a Finnish filmmaker and screenwriter.

The Minister of State (1997)

A man uses a case of mistaken identity to gain the confidence of a small village, and in the process exposes universal human traits: honour, greed, honesty, and eventually love.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Paul-Anders Simma
CAST:  Mikkel Gaup  •  Anna Maria Blind  •  Peo Grape  •  Rolf Jenner

A man uses a case of mistaken identity to gain the confidence of a small village, and in the process exposes universal human traits: honour, greed, honesty, and eventually love.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Paul-Anders Simma
CAST:  Mikkel Gaup  •  Anna Maria Blind  •  Peo Grape  •  Rolf Jenner

Give us our skeletons! (1999)

A man sets out to retrieve the skeletons of his ancestors, stolen in the 1930s for eugenic experiments.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Paul-Anders Simma
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A man sets out to retrieve the skeletons of his ancestors, stolen in the 1930s for eugenic experiments.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Paul-Anders Simma
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Olga (2013)

Olga is believed to be a mentally disabled, orphan girl who is following reindeer herder along the hiking trails in Russia. But she is a very smart teenager and an excellent storyteller.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Paul-Anders Simma
CAST:  Olga Kirilova  •  Nikolay Lukin

Olga is believed to be a mentally disabled, orphan girl who is following reindeer herder along the hiking trails in Russia. But she is a very smart teenager and an excellent storyteller.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Paul-Anders Simma
CAST:  Olga Kirilova  •  Nikolay Lukin

Duoddara árbi (1994)

There's a funeral in Sapmi. The dead is the father of 17-year old John-Andreas. He now remembers what his father told him shortly before his death. Will John-Andreas manage to take over? It's tough to continue, when reindeers keep disappearing.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Paul-Anders Simma
CAST:  John-Andreas Utsi  •  Karen Utsi  •  Ellen Utsi  •  Kari Utsi

There's a funeral in Sapmi. The dead is the father of 17-year old John-Andreas. He now remembers what his father told him shortly before his death. Will John-Andreas manage to take over? It's tough to continue, when reindeers keep disappearing.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Paul-Anders Simma
CAST:  John-Andreas Utsi  •  Karen Utsi  •  Ellen Utsi  •  Kari Utsi

My Dear Mother (2019)

My Dear Mother is about the 15-year-old girl Dasha who lives in an orphanage in a small town in Russia. We follow her for five years, in all the thoughts she has about growing up in orphanages. She wonders why her mother left her. Until her grandmother died, she ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Paul-Anders Simma
CAST:  Dasha Matrekhina  •  Alyonna Sovkina  •  Irina Matveeva  •  Natescha Panova

My Dear Mother is about the 15-year-old girl Dasha who lives in an orphanage in a small town in Russia. We follow her for five years, in all the thoughts she has about growing up in orphanages. She wonders why her mother left her. Until her grandmother died, she ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Paul-Anders Simma
CAST:  Dasha Matrekhina  •  Alyonna Sovkina  •  Irina Matveeva  •  Natescha Panova

Let's Dance! (1991)

12 year old sami boy Lassi sneaks into a dance at the community hall. But how will he get to dance with the girl he is in love with?  (more)

DIRECTION:  Paul-Anders Simma
CAST:  Anders Wasaara  •  Irene Länsman

12 year old sami boy Lassi sneaks into a dance at the community hall. But how will he get to dance with the girl he is in love with?  (more)

DIRECTION:  Paul-Anders Simma
CAST:  Anders Wasaara  •  Irene Länsman