With Jorma Tommila, Onni Tommila, Peeter Jakobi, Tommi Korpela. Thriller 2013 112 mins Director: Daniel Wolfe. Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale, a Finnish film from director Jalmari Helander, presents its own warped take on the jolly Christmas saint. Watch Movies Trailers, Previews, Teasers and TV Spots for new and classic films. Karel Zeman's astonishing fantasy mixes live-action and animation to tell the adventures of a ploughman and a mercenery during the Thirty Years War. Directed by Jalmari Helander and starring Tommi Korpela, Per Christian Ellefsen, Jorma Tommila and Jonathan Hutchings. Part children's adventure, part macabre seasonal shocker, this darkly humorous concoction defies categorisation. All rights reserved. RARE EXPORTS: A CHRISTMAS TALE is a re-imagining of the most classic of all childhood fantasies, and is a darkly comic gem soon to be required perennial holiday viewing. The TIFF website has the official description for the film: Way up north in Finland, right on the border with Russia, lies one of Santa Claus’s ostensible homes. (720p) It\'s the eve of Christmas in northern Finland and an \archeological\ dig has just unearthed the real Santa Claus. Unnerving, funny, and inventive, Rare Exports combines an off-the-wall premise with... Rare Exports – a Christmas Tale Read More The locals, mostly Samis and Laplanders, are furious. Drama 2007 97 mins Director: Naomi Kawase. (High Definition) The annual reindeer round-up, which happens a few days before Christmas, has been ruined, dealing a devastating blow to the local economy. Subscribe to watch - 14-day free trial, then £4.99 a month. The movie will have its North American premiere at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival. With a dash of Tim Burton-esque whimsy and a malevolence that evokes the darkest of fairytales, Rare Exports is overflowing with inventive ideas and crafty twists. Overview. Director Jalmari Helander adapted the film from a couple of award-winning shorts he made, titled “Rare Exports Inc” and “Rare Exports: Official Safety Instructions”. Drama 2015 128 mins Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa. It\'s the eve of Christmas in northern Finland and an \"archeological\" dig has just unearthed the real Santa Claus. Horror 1966 39 mins Director: Nobuhiko Obayashi. This Santa is, to put it mildly, a little harsher. Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale. This Christmas everyone will believe in Santa Claus. All names, trademarks and images are copyright their respective owners. Karel Zeman’s wildly inventive and comic take on the surreal adventures of the bragging Baron explodes on to the screen in a riot of colour, visual wit and poetic verve. Science Fiction 2019 105 mins Director: Jessica Hausner. This is the sort of demented horror brilliance that could only hail from Europe. Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale [+ see also: trailer interview: Jalmari Helander film profile] is one of those rare feature debuts carried by heavy industry awareness and media hype even before audiences have set foot in cinemas. Crime 1998 111 mins Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa. For the last couple of months an international team of “archaeologists,” working for Subzero Inc. and led by a weird Brit (who bears an unsettling resemblance to the Nazi officer in Raiders of the Lost Ark), has been mysteriously digging away at a large hill, wreaking havoc on the environment. (various). Watch the movie trailer for Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (2010). Told with just the right amount of gore, chill and humour, Rare Exports is a bracing fantasy that satirizes our attachment to the genre – our need to believe and propagate myth. I’ve included those below. Shinya Tsukamoto's wild cyberpunk tale of a businessman's agonising transformation into a walking scrap heap is a jaggedly dehumanised vision of the future. Hopefully it fares better than the Nazi zombie flick Dead Snow, which was another snow-based European indie horror-comedy with an ingenuous hook, but without the strong execution to back it up. Affiliate links used when available. Fantasy 1965 89 mins Director: Elio Petri. Though he doesn’t totally fit in with the community, Pietari is insatiably curious and notices things that others don’t. Movie Trailer: Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale, The New Holiday Classics: Christmas Movies For the Next Generation, Naughty and Not-So-Nice: A Guide to the Most Evil Movie Santas, Exclusive Illustrations From ‘Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale’, ‘Rare Exports’ Director Working on ‘Home Alone Meets Rambo’. © 2020 British Film Institute. This is the sort of demented horror brilliance that could only hail from Europe. Thriller 2015 125 mins Director: Luca Guadagnino. Especially annoyed is Rauno, a single father who’s struggling to make ends meet and deal with his imaginative, physically underdeveloped son, Pietari. Animation & Artists Moving Image 1961 85 mins Director: Karel Zeman. Long before The Hunger Games, Marcello Mastroianni and Ursula Andress battled it out in a televised assassination game, in Elio Petri’s cult sci-fi. Single mother Hana must bring up her wolf children away from the prying eyes of the neighbours in this stunning anime. Like classic fairy tales, Rare Exports boasts a lone parent with personal troubles, a child who’s perhaps too perceptive for his own good and an instantly identifiable villain.