
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.
2025OrendaMovieDirector
2021The DinosaurMovieas Self
2021Donner - PrivateMovieWriter
2014Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel WomenMovieas Self
2013Concrete NightMovieDirector · Screenplay
2010ITO – A Diary of an Urban PriestMovieDirector · Writer · Editor · Director of Photography
2009The InterrogationMovieDirector of Photography
2008Helsinki, ForeverMovieThanks
2004The 3 Rooms of MelancholiaMovieDirector · Writer · Producer · Editor · Director of Photography
1998Fire-EaterMovieDirector
1998Ingmar Bergman on Life and WorkMovieDirector of Photography
1997AtmanMovieDirector · Writer · Director of Photography · Cinematography
1996The Cinderella of TallinnMovieDirector · Writer
1994Christmas in the DistanceMovieThanks
1993Tanjuska and the 7 DevilsMovieDirector · Producer · Editor · Director of Photography
1991MysterionMovieDirector · Screenplay · Editor · Other · Still Photographer · Director of Photography
1991Molle: A Director's Portrait of Academian Rauni MollbergMovieas Self
1985Da CapoMovieDirector · Editor · Screenplay
1983250 Grammes – A Radioactive TestamentMovieDirector · Editor · Producer · Writer
1982Nine Ways to Approach HelsinkiMovieDirector · Director of Photography · Editor
1980Flame TopMovieDirector · Screenplay
1979Two ForcesMovieas Self · Director of Photography · Writer · Editor · Director
1978The Sign of DangerMovieDirector · Writer
1976IkäluokkaMovieDirector · Writer · Director of Photography · Editor
1973The Earth Is a Sinful SongMovieScreenplay · Assistant Director · Sound Editor
1973Uuno TurhapuroMovieas Nainen raitiovaunussa (uncredited)
1973HangoverMovieDirector of Photography
1972HellyysMovieCamera Operator
1972Marja pieni!MovieDirector of Photography
1971Laulu tulipunaisesta kukastaMovieStill Photographer
1970PilvilinnaMovieDirector of Photography
1970Portraits of WomenMovieas Film Crew Member (uncredited) · Still Photographer
1968The Whole Truth and Nothing but the TruthMovieDirector · Writer