Pirjo Honkasalo

Biography

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.

Directed

1. Concrete Night (2013) — Director
2. The 3 Rooms of Melancholia (2004) — Director
3. Fire-Eater (1998) — Director
4. Flame Top (1980) — Director
5. Orenda (2025) — Director
6. Nine Ways to Approach Helsinki (1982) — Director
7. Two Forces (1979) — Director
8. The Sign of Danger (1978) — Director
9. Tanjuska and the 7 Devils (1993) — Director
10. Da Capo (1985) — Director
11. Mysterion (1991) — Director
12. Atman (1997) — Director
13. ITO – A Diary of an Urban Priest (2010) — Director
14. The Cinderella of Tallinn (1996) — Director
15. 250 Grammes – A Radioactive Testament (1983) — Director
16. Ikäluokka (1976) — Director
17. Before I die (1967) — Director
18. The Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth (1968) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Uuno Turhapuro (1973) — Nainen raitiovaunussa (uncredited)
2. Portraits of Women (1970) — Film Crew Member (uncredited)
3. The Dinosaur (2021) — Self
4. Two Forces (1979) — Self
5. Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women (2014) — Self
6. Molle: A Director's Portrait of Academian Rauni Mollberg (1991) — Self