Pirjo Honkasalo

Who is Pirjo Honkasalo?

Pirjo Honkasalo is a Finnish film director who has also worked as a cinematographer, film editor, producer and actor. In 1981 she co-directed Flame Top with Pekka Lehto. The film was chosen for the 1981 Cannes Film Festival. In the 1990s she focused on feature documentaries, such as "The Trilogy of the Sacred and the Satanic". Honkasalo returned to fiction with Fire-Eater and Concrete Night, both of which were written by her partner Pirkko Saisio.