Teemu Nikki

Teemu Nikki

Born: January 1, 1975
in Sysmä, Finland
Teemu Nikki is a Finnish self-taught director, screenwriter and producer. His first feature film, Euthanizer (2017) was selected as Finland's official Oscar entry for the 2019 Academy Awards. His third feature film, The Blind Man That Didn't Want To See Titanic (2021) was selected for Venice Film Festival's Orizzonti Extra section. Nikki has also written and directed numerous short films and TV series.

Movies for Teemu Nikki...

The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic
Title: The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic
Character: Dog walker
Released: September 10, 2021
Type: Movie
Jaakko and Sirpa have never met face to face, but talk on the phone every day. When Jaakko hears news about Sirpa's declining health, he decides to go meet her in another city. It's not the easiest decision, because he's blind and paralyzed from the chest down - and he has to make the journey alone. To get there, Jaakko must rely on the help of five strangers. What could go wrong?
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Fucking with Nobody
Title: Fucking with Nobody
Character: Cameo Tampereen elokuvajuhlien bileissä
Released: June 11, 2021
Type: Movie
Hanna teams up with her sister and counterculture friends to create a parody romance on Instagram between herself and young actor Ekku. Hanna starts living a crowd-pleasing love story for the public, only to find herself tangled up in the unresolved past with her “you were never my boyfriend” friend Lasse, who also happens to be the real-life co-writer and cinematographer of Fucking with Nobody. Fiction and auto-fiction crash and melt into each other, as writer-director Hannaleena Hauru plays the lead role of an ever-single film director Hanna.
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Forest Giant
Title: Forest Giant
Character: Media Trainer
Released: September 11, 2020
Type: Movie
Pasi returns to his childhood town, asked to reconfigure the local plywood factory. With a child on the way with his upper-class wife, Pasi sees an opportunity – this is his ticket to climb the professional ladder in the company. On arrival, he bumps into his childhood friend Janne, who works in the factory he is about to downsize. Pasi begins to struggle with the fact that he is supposed to care for the profits – not for the people.
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Kebab King
Title: Kebab King
Character: Kebab King
Released: September 26, 2019
Type: Movie
A tale of hate with no justifiable purpose: dry, cold winters, smoking highway dust, apartment buildings on the horizon, and VOLVO S40 leather seats.
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Cleaning Woman
Title: Cleaning Woman
Character: Katariina Ohtola
Released: September 27, 2018
Type: Movie
Cleaning woman is cleaning and finds herself in an unexpected situation.
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Pony and Birdboy
Title: Pony and Birdboy
Character: Roskakuski
Released: August 3, 2018
Type: Movie
Pony and Birdboy tells a story of seven-year-old girl Pony, who doesn’t want to go to school, and big-mouthed Birdboy who has solution to all possible problems. Humoristic family-film Pony and Birdboy is partly based on Veera Salmi’s popular children’s book The Book of Pony and Birdboy, which rich humor and anarchist hustle have brought the book as a favorite of children.
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The Defiler
Title: The Defiler
Character: Lapa
Released: November 11, 2016
Type: Movie
The Defiler is a fuck-yeah-tale of passion, mayhem, love and revenge, ode to 80’s action, italian ripp offs and b-sleaze set in the cinematic splatter-punk universe.
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Gold Digger
Title: Gold Digger
Character: Baarimikko
Released: March 25, 2016
Type: Movie
Marja (Minka Kuustonen) is a blogger. Olavi is one of the richest men in the country. She might be able to save her blog if she dates him, but what if she falls for him for real?
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Play God
Title: Play God
Character: Self / Narrator (voice)
Released: September 6, 2011
Type: Movie
Play God is a humorous documentary that neither apologizes nor whines but simply recounts, with brutal honesty, the story of a failed splatter film project.