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Alma Pöysti

Alma Pöysti

2 films · 130 frames · top-billed in 2 · 20212023

Born 16 March 1981 · Helsinki, Finland

Alma Pöysti is a Swedish-speaking Finnish actress. Coming from an artistic family, she is the daughter of director Erik Pöysti and the granddaughter of actors Lasse Pöysti and Birgitta Ulfsson.

A 2007 graduate of the Theatre Academy of Helsinki, she began her career on stage at the Swedish Theatre in Helsinki and the Finnish National Theatre, while also performing in Sweden.

She gained international recognition playing artist and author Tove Jansson in the biographical film Tove (2020), a role that earned her the Jussi Award for Best Leading Actress.

Awards

On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 130 frames · top-billed in 2 · 20212023

  • Jussi Award for Best Leading Actor2024
  • Jussi Award for Best Leading Actress2021

How their films are shot

Measured across 130 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Alma takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.

Across the 2 films we hold, 72% of their frames are night, 72% low key — the look of the work Alma takes.

Time of day

Night72%
Day23%

Lighting

Low key72%
Natural22%

Shot size

Medium59%
Wide16%
Closeup15%
Fullbody5%

Camera angle

Eye level85%
Low angle7%
High angle5%

Mood

Neutral46%
Tense25%
Lonely13%
Ominous10%

Films in the library

Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.

A reference database for filmmakers

FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 130 frames from Alma Pöysti's 2 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.