Director
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.
Often works with
Rea Mauranen
4 titles together
Concrete Night, Fire-Eater, Flame Top
Jörn Donner
3 titles together
Portraits of Women, Nine Ways to Approach Helsinki, Donner - Private
Juhan Ulfsak
2 titles together
Concrete Night, Orenda
Pirkko Saisio
2 titles together
The 3 Rooms of Melancholia, Orenda
Kristo Salminen
2 titles together
Fire-Eater, Da Capo
Eeva-Maija Haukinen
2 titles together
Fire-Eater, Da Capo
Full filmography · 19
Orenda
Director
2025
Donner - Private
Writer
2021
Concrete Night
Director
20135.9
ITO – A Diary of an Urban Priest
Director and Writer
2010
The 3 Rooms of Melancholia
Writer and Director
2004
Fire-Eater
Director
1998
Atman
Director and Writer
1997
The Cinderella of Tallinn
Writer and Director
1996
Tanjuska and the 7 Devils
Director
1993
Mysterion
Director
1991
Da Capo
Director
1985
250 Grammes – A Radioactive Testament
Writer and Director
1983