Pirjo Honkasalo
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- February 22, 1947, Helsinki, Finland
- Movies
- 26
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.
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 2021 | The Dinosaur | Self |
| 2014 | Reel Herstory: The Real Story of Reel Women | Self |
| 1991 | Molle: A Director's Portrait of Academian Rauni Mollberg | Self |
| 1979 | Two Forces | Self |
| 1973 | Uuno Turhapuro | Nainen raitiovaunussa (uncredited) |
| 1970 | Portraits of Women | Film Crew Member (uncredited) |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 2025 | Orenda | Director |
| 2021 | Donner - Private | Writer |
| 2013 | Concrete Night | Screenplay, Director |
| 2010 | ITO – A Diary of an Urban Priest | Director, Writer |
| 2004 | The 3 Rooms of Melancholia | Writer, Director, Producer |
| 1998 | Fire-Eater | Director |
| 1997 | Atman | Director, Writer |
| 1996 | The Cinderella of Tallinn | Writer, Director |
| 1993 | Tanjuska and the 7 Devils | Producer, Director |
| 1991 | Mysterion | Screenplay, Director |
| 1985 | Da Capo | Director, Screenplay |
| 1983 | 250 Grammes – A Radioactive Testament | Writer, Producer, Director |
| 1982 | Nine Ways to Approach Helsinki | Director |
| 1980 | Flame Top | Director, Screenplay |
| 1979 | Two Forces | Writer, Director |
| 1978 | The Sign of Danger | Writer, Director |
| 1976 | Ikäluokka | Director, Writer |
| 1973 | The Earth Is a Sinful Song | Screenplay |
| 1968 | The Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth | Director, Writer |
| 1967 | Before I die | Director |
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