SALES CATALOGUE

THE FINNIS H BROA DCA STING COMPAN Y
2014
SALES CATALOGUE
DOCUMENTARY
CONTENTS
YLE SALES CATALOGUE 2014
Drama
Documentary
03
The Limit
04
Second Chance
18
Syria – Faces of War
Kurdistan – Bridge over Troubled Water
05
Good Purposes
06
Middle of the Road
What My Uncle Taught Me
19
Emissionary Man
Congo of the Arctic Circle
A 100 000 Year’s Problem
07
Almost There
Three Kisses
Red Ribbon
Snowflake Formation
20
21
Free Miles
The Road to Silverstone
Dora’s Island
Angel with a Broken Wing
08 Larger Than Life
Stalker
22Arvo
Soul Food
The Balloon Swallower
09RAID
Eight Deadly Shots
The Stars Will Tell, Inspector Palmu
23
The Grey Eminence
Two Men from China
One Man Peace
24
Hunt for the Lost Brewster
Stories from a Bear’s Lair
10Whatever
25
Land-Locked Seals
Crane Whisperer
11#lovemilla
The Adventures of Reetta and Ronja
26
Enclosed by Water
Lakes of Finland
12Dibidogs
Doghill
27
Frontier Life
The Finest Rivers of Finland
The Pearls of the Baltic Sea
28
The Call of a Tantric Guru
The Truth about Sauna
Rubens of the North
Kids & Youth
13 Santa Claus and the Magic Drum
Mr. Clay and his Magic Hat
Pipalina
Viivi and Leevi
Music & Culture
14
Seven Symphonies by Sibelius
Short Stories of Sibelius
Sir Colin in the World of Sibelius
15Vigilia
Värttinä In Concert
16
Inside Quartet Lab – Birth of a Quartet
Quartet Lab: In Concert
17
Sofi Oksanen – Born to Write
Moomin’s Memories
Eero Aarnio: Solid Shapes
Marimekko – Strategy of a Miracle
Factual Entertainment
29
The Norden
30
Off to Turkey
Couch Crashers
Me and My Mom
Looking for Mr. Right
DOCUMENTARY
DRAMA
Based on the prize-winning novel
The Limit by Riikka Pulkkinen
The Limit
Mini series – 2014
Director Hanna Maylett
Production Yle, the Finnish
Broadcasting Company
Duration 3 x 50 min
HD
M/E
Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
Anja, 53, is a literature professor.
When her husband was
diagnosed with Alzheimer, she
promised to end his sufferings in
time. Her young niece Mari, 16,
falls in love with her handsome
teacher Julian. Is this a way out
of the girl’s self-mutilation? Julian
has a loving wife at home. Their
sweet and wise daughter Anni, 6,
studies daddy’s sudden change
secretly. The three stories are
elegantly woven together, as the
three female characters struggle
with their lives and sometimes
flirt with death.
Co-production with SVT, RUV
3
DRAMA
Second
Chance
Dramedy series – 2014
Director Lauri Nurkse
Production Yle, the Finnish
Broadcasting Company
Duration 6 x 50 min
HD
Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
Saara, a social worker,
has longed for a child for
some time already. Nothing
happens, until one beautiful
summer night a guy called
Matti swims towards her at
a Finnish lake. As a result,
Saara learns that she is
not infertile at all. Being
pregnant is a dream come
true for Saara, but not for her
husband Touko. And her one
night stand Matti has such a
common name that he is not
easy to find either.
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DRAMA
Good Purposes
TV-movie – 2014
Director Heidi Köngäs
Production Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting Company
Duration 71 min
HD
Available: EU/ETA TV
Alma is no plastic barbie, but flesh and
blood, all woman and emotion. She spreads her
strength between her aging parents and her
teenage son. Is there room for love in her life?
There are many ways to do good, who’s to say
which is the best one? Good Purposes is a warmhearted love story, a bit melancholic, like Finnish
tango.
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DRAMA
FOUR DRAMAS BY MATTI IJÄS, THE BELOVED FINNISH FILM DIRECTOR
Middle of the Road
TV-movie – 2013
Director Matti Ijäs
Production Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting Company
Duration 85 min
HD
M/E
Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
An asphalt contractor, who has
sacrificed his life to make a profit, finds
himself in a financial dead-end. The ever
gentle-minded road engineer Rauno Kannisto
is hired to the construction site, to build a
road that cuts through the vast forests by
the Russian border. He knows nothing of the
financial difficulties. Soon, Rauno finds himself
in a situation where he doesn’t know which
way to turn. The sub-contractor becomes
the main contractor, workers are loaded in
containers from the other side of the border,
and the contractor’s wife has a smile that
makes you lose your sleep. Middle of the Road
is a dark comedy about loyalty and greed.
Rauno’s role is played by Jussi Vatanen, who
received the prize for Best Male Actor at the
Golden Venla Awards 2013.
What My Uncle Taught Me
Mini-series – 2011
Director Matti Ijäs
Production Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting Company
Duration 2 x 53 min
HD
Available: EU/ETA TV
What My Uncle Taught Me is a funny and warmhearted tragicomedy about the friendship between
12-year-old Jussi and his uncle, whom he idolizes
and who seems to carry the great big world inside
him.
Uncle knows how to pick up women and catch
fish, and how to feel loose and relaxed. That is why
he has decided to bear his responsibility as a man
in the family and cure Jussi of the disease of giving
in shame.
But one cannot always trust Uncle’s plans. In his
company, Jussi misses trains and often ends up in
the wrong place at the wrong time, amazed at how
seductive life can be.
Co-production with SVT
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DRAMA
Almost There
TV-movie – 2003
Director Matti Ijäs
Production Yle, the Finnish
Broadcasting Company
Duration 71 min
SD
Available: Worldwide TV
Almost There is set in
Northern Finland, in the
remotest corners of Lapland. It
is a gripping story of Kauko, who
is physically a man but mentally
a child, and his quest to find the
woman of his dreams.
Kauko’s journey is long and
tricky. The sincere boy runs into
con men and perverts before
he accepts his fate and returns
home to his brother.
Golden Chest Grand Prix,
Bulgaria, 2004
Three Kisses
TV-movie – 2006
Director Matti Ijäs
Production Yle, the Finnish
Broadcasting Company
Duration 56 min
SD
Available: EU/ETA TV
A melancholy comedy about
senior teacher Jaakko Sakkanen,
a man who has dedicated
himself to history in an effort
Red Ribbon
TV-movie – 2012
Director Tapio Piirainen
Production Yle, the Finnish
Broadcasting Company
Duration 75 min
HD
Available: Worldwide TV
Martti Turunen is in his
fifties and has never made love.
But the longing has become
too much to bear. Suddenly
his grey life becomes colorful
to find reason in the world. He
has become cynical over the
years and his world has shrunk to
cover only the path connecting
his home and the school. What
happens, when the heart of an
encapsulated man begins to
thaw all of a sudden?
The film is loosely based on
Anton Chekhov’s short story “The
Man in a Case”, in addition to
which it contains extracts from
his notebook.
when a woman with a red ribbon
in her hair crosses him in the
corridor at work. Unfortunately,
Helena, the woman with a red
ribbon in her hair, is not an
ordinary woman. And the stars
of romance don’t seem to line
up for him. But the feelings are
genuine, and the warmth of
another person flickers in the life
of a lonely man.
A romantic comedy about a
bachelor’s last chance.
Snowflake Formation – a workplace tragicomedy
TV-movie – 2012
Director Tapio Piirainen
Production Yle, the Finnish
Broadcasting Company
Duration 55 min
HD
Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
Snowflake Formation is a
tragicomedy about a modern
workplace.
What happens, when the
company is being so streamlined,
that streamlining is the only
function left?
”Three people have cried, two
have raged and one just doesn’t
fucking understand”. And the
day in an idyllic retreat, meant
for recuperation for the unwell
work community, is only half way
down.
Things only get worse during
the day, and in the evening, the
police is knocking at the door.
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DRAMA
Larger Than Life
Drama series – 2012
Director Matti Kinnunen
Production Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting
Company
Duration 6 x 50 min
HD
Available: Worldwide TV
Anssi Mäki, a talented young banker,
predicts the fall of the American banks,
and gets fired because of his pessimism.
He decides to take revenge on the
banking world. The revenge jeopardizes
the love of his life. This drama series is
set in the year 2007-2008, the time of
the banking crisis.
The characters are deepened by the
Chekhov novel that the script is based
upon.
Co-production with RUV
The Stalker
Drama – 2012
Director Juha Rosma
Production Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting
Company
Duration 2 x 55 min or 1 x 97 min
HD
Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
The Stalker is a psychological thriller
of a nightmare that invades a young
suburban mother’s life, in the form of a
jealous and possessive new boyfriend.
When closeness turns into threat and
love into fear, and your life is no longer
yours, you have to take charge. If you
still can...
Co-production with SVT
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DRAMA
CLASSIC DRAMA
RAID
Classic drama series – 2000
Director Tapio Piirainen
Production Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting Company
Duration 12 x 38 – 46 min
SD
Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
A police officer who has been investigating white-collar
crimes is shot dead in a TV studio. Another policeman
takes his own life at his summer home. A young woman,
an executive with a powerful electronics concern, also
commits suicide. Her embittered father suspects foul play
and he invites Raid, the woman’s former boyfriend to ”make
inquiries”. Meanwhile, the police are looking for the first killer
– and the trail leads inexorably to Raid. Very soon, however,
they realize that the guilty party is somewhere else, and the
interests of the police and the avenging angel Raid converge.
The unholy alliance shows that even those with morals may,
to some extent, use immoral means to achieve an end.
Eight Fatal Shots
Classic mini series – 1972
Director Mikko Niskanen
Production Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting Company
Duraration 4 x 72 – 85 min
SD
B/W
Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
Eight Fatal Shots pictures life on a small farm in Central
Finland. The small-farmer and his family cannot make a
living on their cow and plot of land. But there is no work,
except moonshining. How long can a person last in hopeless
circumstances? Eight Fatal Shots emphasizes the individual’s
helplessness in an unjust society.
The Stars Will Tell, Inspector Palmu
Classic feature film – 1962
Director Matti Kassila
Production Fennada-Filmi
SD
B/W
Duraration 4 x 72 – 85 min
Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
Inspector Palmu investigates the murder of an avid
astrologist and philatelist. Turns out that his home has
been burgled, and a large amount of money is missing. The
telescope in the victim’s apartment has been aimed to a
certain window in the city, and this clue leads inspector Palmu
to the right track.
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KIDS & YOUTH
KIDS & YOUTH
Whatever
Drama – 2014
Director Jarmo Lampela
Production Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting
Company
Duration 6 x 28 min
HD
M/E
Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
Whatever tells about friendship
between two seemingly opposites, a
boy confined in an elite school and an
abandoned girl.
Kasper, 12, is the star pupil of an
nationally recognized elite school and
spends his days in training and evenings
on stage. Ida, 13, has been taken into
care and lives in a foster family. She’s
anxious and rebellious, not used to
getting anything for free.
Whatever is an action-packed adventure
series, dealing with in-depth themes, such
as the acceptance of diversity, forgiveness
and the price of success. It is a series for
children from seven years up, as well as for
wider audiences.
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KIDS & YOUTH
#lovemilla
Multiplatform Dramedy –
2013 – 2014
Director Teemu Nikki
Production It’s Alive
Productions
Duration 51 x 3-6 min
HD
M/E
Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
#lovemilla is a content
series for teenagers, where
cross media is thought
from the side of audience,
not from broadcaster’s
perspective. It tells a story
of 17-year old Milla and her
friends, who spend their days
in a cafeteria of an unnamed
small town – a very familiar
setting for the target audience
in Finland. The story is told
through content pieces that are
scattered along social media
and TV.
The Adventures of Reetta and Ronja
Drama series for children – 2009
Director Hanna Bergholm
Production Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting
Company
Duration 10 x 10 min
HD
M/E
Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
Children’s series Reetta and Ronja
portrays two sisters, 8-year-old Reetta
and 6-year-old Ronja; their plays, little
adventures, and exciting events in
their everyday life. The contemplative,
resourceful Reetta and the brave,
energetic Ronja always know how to
brighten up a boring day.
Wonderful things can happen when
you start playing.
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KIDS & YOUTH
Dibidogs
3D Animation – 2013
Director Tommy Wang
Artwork Children around the world,
Blue Arc Ltd., Futurecode Ltd.
Production Futurecode Ltd, Blue Arc
Ltd
Duration 26 x 23 min
HD
M/E
Ages 4-10
Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
Doghill
Animation – 2004/2007
Script Mauri Kunnas
Animation Mikko Kunnas
Production Yle, the Finnish
Broadcasting Company
Duration 13 x 5 min
SD
M/E
Age group pre-schoolers
Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
Mauri Kunnas’ beloved
‘Doghill’ books have taught the
children of today of the life in
19th century rural Scandinavia
with a warmhearted touch for
over twenty years now. We can
join the main character, Kille,
and follow the goings-on at
Doghill house in an animated
television series.
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Welcome to Bone City!
Dibidogs sweeps us into the
enchanting planet of the
Dibidogs, home to more or less
regular dogs and a royal family.
The main characters are schoolage pups Adi and Jessica and
their friends. And what are those
mysterious Shadows up to? A
surprising event on this planet
in outer space kicks off the first
Dibidogs adventure. There’s
plenty of action, twists in the
plot and chuckles along the way.
KIDS & YOUTH
Santa Claus and the Magic Drum
Animation – 1996
Created by Mauri Kunnas
Production Yle, the Finnish
Broadcasting Company
Duration 50 min
SD
M/E
Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
Christmas preparations are
well on the way, but all is not
okay. Who put pepper in the
ginger snaps? Who put out the
Northern Lights? Why does a
virus mess up Santa’s computer,
just when he is about to solve a
tricky Christmas mystery? Who is
teasing Santa and why?
Mr Clay and his Magic Hat
Animation – 2006
Script and animation | Tuula Pukkila
Production Yle, the Finnish
Broadcasting Company
Duration 10 x 6 min
Age group pre-schoolers
No dialogue
SD
Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
Mr Clay, the magician,
conjures colours and shapes out
of his hat. He also makes the
wish of his friend, the bunny,
come true by modelling him the
animal figure he wishes to see.
Co-production SVT, NRK DR
Viivi and Leevi
Animation – 1998, 2000, 2003
Script and animation Tuula Pukkila
Production Yle, the Finnish
Broadcasting Company
Duration 19 x 4 min
Age group pre-schoolers
No dialogue
SD
Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
Leevi is keen to bake, paint,
and try his hand at almost
anything. But whenever he does,
he always winds up in trouble,
and the only way out is to call for
the help of his big sister Viivi.
Co-production NRK, RUV, SVT
Pipalina
Animation – 2005
Animation Bettina BjörnbergAminoff
Script Gunilla Hemming
Production Yle, The Finnish
Broadcasting Company
Duration 7 x 5 – 6 min
No dialogue
SD
Available: Worldwide TV
Pipalina is a brave and kindhearted mouse living in an
exciting and colorful world. She
is a very lucky mouse, firstly,
because she has a dog (as you
may know not every mouse
has his or her own dog), and
secondly because she always
finds adventure. Pipalina’s
adventures are not of the noisy
or violent kind. They are filled
with humour, a great appetite for
life and enormous curiosity.
These small animated films
are aimed at an audience just
like Pipalina herself - curious,
brave and kind-hearted, that is:
children from age 2 and up!
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MUSIC & CULTURE
MUSIC & CULTURE
CELEBRATING THE 150 TH ANNIVERSARY
OF JEAN SIBELIUS
Seven Symphonies by Sibelius IN PRODUCTION
Documentary/Concert – 2014
Directors Laura Joutsi and Hannu Kamppila
Production Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting Company
Duration 7 x 60 min
HD
M&E
Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
This program will give a new and modern perspective to
Sibelius and his Symphonies. Each episode has three parts: a
documentary, an introduction & samples of symphonies, all
ending with the live recording of the symphony in question,
performed by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted
by Hannu Lintu, in the new Helsinki Music Centre.
Short Stories of Sibelius IN PRODUCTION
Sir Colin in the World
of Sibelius
Short stories – 2015
Director Piia Hirvensalo
Production Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting Company
Duration 8 x 10 min
HD
M&E
Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
Music Documentary – 2006
Director Jukka Konttori
Production Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting
Company
Duration 57 min
SD
Available: Worldwide TV
Jean Sibelius composed seven symphonies. His
struggle with the eighth symphony lasted for years and
ended with burning the scores.
It’s time to demolish the myth of Jean Sibelius.
These stories are about Sibelius, not about his music.
The commentator is one of the most famous Finnish
composers of our time: Kaija Saariaho. The interviewees
are experts, but not music specialists or scientists.
Each short story uses in its expression codes of
different film genres. Animation replenishes the
narration.
One of the most important
spokesmen for music composed by
Sibelius, British conductor, Sir Colin
Davis, paid a visit to Finland and sat
in Sibelius’ favourite armchair in the
library of the composer’s home, Ainola.
While there, Sir Colin and composer
Osmo Tapio Räihälä stopped to
ponder over what kind of man
Sibelius was and why his music is still
appealing and meaningful today.
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MUSIC & CULTURE
Vigilia
Concert – 2013
Director Tiina Siniketo
Production Yle, the Finnish
Broadcasting Company
Duration 2 x 30 min
HD
Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
The Helsinki Chamber Choir
performs Vigilia, composed by
Einojuhani Rautavaara, one
of the leading composers of
choral music in our time. The
soloists are Niall Chorell and Jyrki
Korhonen, and the conductor is
Nils Schweckendiek. The setting
for the concert is the beautiful
Orthodox church Uspenski
Cathedral in Helsinki.
Värttinä
In Concert
Concert – 2013
Director Rami Lindholm
Production Yle, the Finnish
Broadcasting Company
Duration 72 min
HD
Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
The Finnish modern folk music
group Värttinä performs many of
their highly popular songs in this
tv-production, to celebrate their
30-year-old career.
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MUSIC & CULTURE
Inside Quartet Lab – Birth of a Quartet
Documentary – 2013
Director Elina Heiskanen
Production Yle, the Finnish
Broadcasting Company
Duration 58 min
HD
M/E
Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
Four brilliant musicians
searching for each other and
for music, over seven intensive
days. Pekka Kuusisto &
Patricia Kopatchinskaja, violin,
Lilli Maijala, viola and Pieter
Wispelwey, cello, are conducting
a unique experiment during a
Quartet Lab: In Concert
Concert – 2013
Director Elina Heiskanen
Production Yle, the Finnish
Broadcasting Company
Duration 55 min
HD
M/E
Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
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After seven days of fierce
rehearsals the music is there:
W. A. Mozart: Divertimento
in D Major, Benjamin Britten:
String Quartet No. 2, George
Crumb: Black Angels. With
Pekka Kuusisto & Patricia
Kopatchinskaja, violin; Lilli
Maijala, viola and Pieter
Wispelwey, cello.
week-long residency – will
the outcome be their first or
their last concert?
MUSIC & CULTURE
Sofi Oksanen – Born to Write
Documentary – 2013
Director Marko Gustafsson
Production Yle, the Finnish
Broadcasting Company
Duration 58 min
HD
M/E
Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
The most successful current
Finnish author began her career
writing a diary as a six-year-old.
This documentary takes us,
along with Sofi, to the Paris Book
Fair, the opening night of her
play in London, her childhood
surroundings in Estonia, and
the former KGB headquarters in
Tallinn.
Moomin’s Memories
Documentary – 2006
Director Charlotte Airas
Production Yle, the Finnish
Broadcasting Company
Duration 58 min
SD
M/E
Available: Worldwide TV
This is a film about
the small jovial Moomin
character depicting its path of
development from a children’s
picture book character to
worldwide fame. The first
Moomin appeared in the 1930s
when Tove Jansson, the creator
of the characters, drew the
ugliest creature in the world.
The first Moomin books were
published in the 1940s, taking
their themes from Tove Jansson’s
own childhood and family. Since
then we have met the Moomins
in the books, in stage, TV and
radio plays, in songs and even in
operas all over the world.
Eero Aarnio: Solid Shapes
Documentary – 2010
Director Tina Cavén
Production Yle, the Finnish
Broadcasting Company
Duration 50 min
SD
Available: Worldwide TV
This television
documentary introduces
the exuberant designer Eero
Aarnio. The successful father
of the almost 50-year-old Ball
Chair takes us on a journey to
the basics of his designs and
the manufacturing processes of
Aarnio classics.
Marimekko – Strategy of a Miracle
Documentary – 2004
Director Nina Stenros
Production Yle, the Finnish
Broadcasting Company
Duration 54 min
SD
Available: Worldwide TV
Marimekko has played a
part in Finnish and Scandinavian
design since the 1950s.
Marimekko’s success has always
been a reflection of its director.
Armi Ratia led Marimekko with
unadulterated enthusiasm and
Marimekko developed into a
strong and internationally visible
brand. Kirsti Paakkanen bought
Marimekko in 1991 and read a
new riot act. Marimekko is once
again thriving. It is listed on the
market, its turnover and profi
tability has increased, as has
its export. This documentary
follows Marimekko’s and Kirsti
Paakkanen’s operations for a
year – the everyday activities,
the shows, and the undertakings
abroad. How and with what was
Marimekko’s success built?
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DOCUMENTARY
DOCUMENTARY
Syria –
Faces of War
Documentary – 2013
Directors Vesa Toijonen and Ari
Lehikoinen
Production Yle, the Finnish
Broadcasting Company
Duration 55 min
HD
M/E
Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
The civil war in Syria
is mostly depicted in huge
numbers: 100 000 dead,
millions of refugees. The
reason is that it never became
a media war, on account of the
war zone being too dangerous
for the media to enter. Niklas
Meltio, a Finnish photographer,
has however travelled to
Aleppo and other areas in
Syria with his camera, in order
to give the war a real face – of
brutality, pain and tears.
Kurdistan – Bridge
over Troubled Water
Documentary – 2013
Director Vesa Toijonen
Production Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting Company
Duration 55 min
SD
M/E
Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
In the south-eastern part of Turkey, the Turkish
army and the Kurdish partisans have been in war for 30
years. 50 000 dead, hundreds of villages burnt to the
ground, over a million refugees. Now, suddenly, peace is
closer than ever. Members of the Turkish government
compare the current situation to a bridge – we’re half
way there, they say. The Kurds are more reserved when
it comes to the peace process. The ceasefire is only
the first step, says Murat Karailan, the leader of the
Kurdistan Worker’s Party PKK. In Diyarbakir, the mothers
are still crying for their dead children. And new graves
are dug at the martyr’s graveyard.
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DOCUMENTARY
Emissionary Man IN PRODUCTION
Documentary/Environment – 2014
Director Kati Juurus
Production Yle, the Finnish
Broadcasting Company
Duration 56 min
HD
M/E
Available: EU/ETA TV
The purpose of emissions
trade is to cut down carbon
dioxide emissions, and direct
the industries to invest in
low-carbon production. The
outcome, however, has not been
as expected. The documentary
is a tragicomic story of how we
are trying to save the world by
shifting the emissions from one
place to another. It’s like we’ve
forgotten that we should also
cut down, not just buy and sell.
The story begins in Kenya, where
two businessmen, a Finnish
and an American, are trying to
make business out of emissions
trade. As the carbon market
collapses, the shock waves are
felt everywhere: in Finland, in
Brussels as well as in Kenya.
The Congo of the Arctic Circle
Documentary/Environment – 2013
Director Ari Lehikoinen
Production Yle, the Finnish
Broadcasting Company
Duration 53 min
HD
M/E
Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
In Finland, foreign mining
companies receive generous
subsidies from the government,
but in return they pay minimal
fees for the profit they make
from the natural resources.
“I do not understand why
the Finns don’t charge royalties
or tax the foreign mining
companies. That is the way the
developing countries treat them”,
says Andreas Missbach, a mining
industry taxation specialist from
the Swiss Berne Declaration
organization.
Lapland is gradually turning
into a reservation for the
exploitation of natural resources,
the Congo of the Arctic Circle.
A 100 000 Year’s Problem
Documentary/Environment – 2011
Director Ari Lehikoinen, Vesa
Toijonen
Production Yle, the Finnish
Broadcasting Company
Duration 56 min
HD
M/E
Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
The world is full of problems,
but only one problem requires a
solution for 100 000 years: where
to bury 250 000 tons deadly
poisonous spent nuclear fuel?
Scientists in Finland and Sweden
believe they have the solution:
to store spent fuel and other
nuclear waste deep down into
Northern granite. Could it be a
solution for the whole European
nuclear industry – to store their
nuclear waste in Finnish or
Swedish ground?
Co-production: ARTE
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DOCUMENTARY
Free Miles
Documentary – 2013
Director Ken Saan
Production Yle, the Finnish
Broadcasting Company
Duration 46 min
HD
M/E
Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
A luxury lifestyle for
practically free of costs? This
documentary shows us a
sub-culture, where frequent
flyer and hotel bonuses make
it possible to live a modern
upper-class vagrant’s life. But
is the constant traveling also
a way to escape your own
self?
The Road to Silverstone
Documentary – 2013
Director Johan Eriksson
Production UNWRA/Johan
Eriksson
Duration 58 min
SD
Available: Worldwide TV,
VOD
Students of
engineering are
building a formula race
car in the Gaza Strip.
Their goal is to take part
in the Formula Student
race in Silverstone, not
a mission for the fainthearted. The voyage to
England is dramatic, and
the thought of meeting
the fellow racers is
thrilling.
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DOCUMENTARY
Dora’s Island
Documentary – 2013
Director Mikaela Weurlander
Production Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting
Company
Duration 59 min
SD
Available: EU/ETA TV
Dora is an 87-year-old lady who lives
by herself on the small Sheep Island on the
Finnish coastline. She’s the only permanent
resident there. This powerful documentary
follows her life for a year, from the time when
the ice breaks in the spring to the arrival of
the summer residents, and from the autumn
rains to the freezing sea, when connections
to the mainland are broken. It’s a story of a
different kind of life in an old age, one where
you can choose your own way of life.
Angel with a Broken Wing
Documentary – 2014
Director Erkki Määttänen
Production Yle, the Finnish
Broadcasting Company
Duration 59 min
HD
M/E
Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
A fascinating story of a beautiful
girl, whose dreams of becoming a
model and an actress are cut short
when she is diagnosed with scoliosis.
During her life, she not only goes
through difficult surgery, but also
marries her dream man, a successful
German businessman, raises a family
in Germany, to finally return to
Finland and start a new career as an
artist and a songwriter.
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DOCUMENTARY
Arvo
Documentary – 2012
Director Ari Lehikoinen
Production Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting Company
Duration 46 min
HD
Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
Arvo is a 12-year-old boy with a heart disease.
His mother, Raisa Lehtomäki, has had to fight to
get his son treated, in order to keep him alive. The
boy has survived various difficult operations, and he
dreams of some day becoming a doctor of physics, or
a watchmaker. This documentary forces you to think
of the value of human life, who in this world is worth
treatment and care? As it happens, the boy’s name
Arvo is also the Finnish word for value.
Best Documentary at the Kultainen Venla TV Awards 2012
Soul Food
Documentary – 2013
Director Tonislav Hristov
Production Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting Company
Duration 55 min
HD
M/E
Available: Worldwide TV
In Soul Food we follow the Finnish family Luotola
on their journey to the Bulgarian countryside,
where practices of food and the rituals around the
table have not been changed for the last century.
Through the point of view of a modern Finnish
family, we discover the incredible power that food
possesses, the power to bring people together, not
only for the purpose of eating, but for the purpose
of feeding your soul.
The Balloon Swallower
Documentary – 2012
Director Juha Portaankorva
Production Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting Company
Duration 29 min
SD
M/E
Available: Worldwide TV
Jaanus, the courier, swallowed 1,3 kilos of
cocaine filled balloons for his first trip. The
smuggling of drugs inside the body is a rapidly
expanding phenomenon, also in Finland.
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DOCUMENTARY
The Grey Eminence
Documentary – 2013
Director Simo Sipola
Production Yle, the Finnish
Broadcasting Company
Duration 57 min
HD
M/E
Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
This documentary is an
eyewitness report on the rise
and fall of Europe’s Economic
and Monetary Union, the EMU.
It analyzes with sharp precision
why politicking destroyed the
economic union. Additionally, the
documentary explains how loose
lucre and scheming politicians
were tantamount to bringing
about the current financial crisis
– and how they also deepened it.
The protagonist of the
documentary is Johnny
Åkerholm, who has acted, for
instance, as a department
head for the Bank of Finland,
Undersecretary of State at
the Finnish State Treasury
and Chairperson of the EU’s
Economic and Financial
Committee. He was also a
member of Ecofin, the Economic
and Financial Affairs Council.
Two Men from China
Documentary – 2012
Director Kati Juurus
Production Yle, the Finnish
Broadcasting Company
Duration 55 min
HD
M/E
Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
A documentary film about
the adventures of two Chinese
welders on the international job
market.
Zhang Han and Ma Yucheng
have come from China to
Finland to work after having
paid thousands of euros of
commission. The international
financial crisis leaves them
unemployed, but the interest
on their debt grows. In the
beginning of the film, the men
are living jobless in Helsinki; they
can’t return home in fear of their
creditors.
Prix Europa Nominee 2012
One Man Peace
Documentary – 2012
Director Kati Juurus
Production Yle, the Finnish
Broadcasting Company
Duration 59 min
HD
M/E
Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
Abdullahi Farah is a Somaliborn cornershopkeeper from
Espoo, Finland. His unlikely
mission is to bring peace to his
former home country. Because
of his past in Somalia, he knows
ministers as well as leaders in
the most important insurgencies,
such as Hizbul Islam or Al
Shabaab.
Because of his contacts,
Mr. Farah becomes a vital
middleman between UN
diplomats and Somali insurgents,
many listed as terrorists.
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DOCUMENTARY
Hunt for the Lost Brewster
Documentary – 2011
Director Anna Kulicka-SoisalonSoininen
Production Tellus Tops Films
Duration 59 min
SD
Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
Hunt for the Lost
Brewster is a thrilling
documentary of the WW2
hero fighter plane Brewster
372 found and lost. About
passion of people entangled
in its history, their wins and
losses, personal tragedies,
international intrigues
involving Finland, Russia
and the USA. And the story
continues, the old Brewster
that was first brought to
Finland in secret, is to return
back to its origins in the USA
in 2014.
Stories
from a Bear’s Lair
Documentary – 2011
Director Mika Hotakainen
Production Oktober Oy
Duration 28 min
HD
Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
Sulo Karjalainen lives in eastern Finland,
together with his brothers family – and six
bears. The bears are mostly orphans, a result of
the hunting seasons, and their offsprings. Also
wolverines and bobcats reside at this wild beast
center.
Sulo has raised the bears himself, and he has
a very special relationship with them. The bears
think of him as their mother. When he talks to
them, they seem to understand perfectly.
The documentary tells a unique story of a
friendship between a man and these beasts.
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DOCUMENTARY
Land-Locked Seals in production
Nature documentary – 2016
Director Juha Taskinen
Production Norppa Taskinen Ky
Duration 55 min
HD
M/E
Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
A unique documentary
presenting the world’s
freshwater seals, found only
in Alaska, Canada, Finland
and Russia. We take a look
at different freshwater seals,
through their ecology and
habitat. We visit the lakes and
meet native people, fishermen,
hunters and seal researchers,
and dive among the seals,
using impressive underwater
cinematography.
The project received the WWF
Panda Award 2012.
Crane Whisperer
Nature documentary – 2012
Director Riikka Poulsen
Production Spiraling Oy
Duration 28 min
HD
Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
Jouko Alhainen is a nature
activist and an internationally
renowned researcher of cranes.
He has ringed hundreds of them,
and he runs a hospice for injured
or orphaned birds at his home.
He also dances like a crane, with
the cranes.
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DOCUMENTARY
Enclosed by Water
Nature documentary – 2013
Director Petteri Saario
Production DocArt Ky
Duration 6 x 29 min
HD
M/E
Available: WorldwideTV, VOD
Life on an island, enclosed
by water, requires ingenuity and
all sorts of skills. The northern
four seasons bring their own
challenges, such as the frost
heave and the harsh stormy
winter.
In Finland there are about
179 000 islands, manifold the
amount of the famous Greek
islands.
The northern archipelago
and its nature is harsh but
breathtakingly beautiful, and
the island inhabitants are as
tough as the junipers fighting
against the wind on the
outmost islets.
Lakes of Finland
Nature documentary – 2012
Director Petteri Saario
Production DocArt Ky
Duration 6 x 28 min
HD
M/E
Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
If Finns were asked, what best
symbolizes their home country, the answer
would most likely be the holy triangle:
sauna, birch – and lake. A lake, if any, is the
symbol of Finland.
Six Finnish lakes portray history, culture,
landscape and nature, politics and beliefs.
Suitable for the whole family, these
documentaries are a personal journey into
the minds of many Finns captivated by
the lakes – from lake cottage enthusiasts
to professional fishermen, from artists to
divers, and from timber rafters to ice fishers.
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DOCUMENTARY
Frontier Life
Nature documentary – 2009
Director Petteri Saario
Production DocArt Ky
Duration 6 x 28 min
HD
M/E
Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
The adventure begins beyond
the border.
The border between Finland
and Russia is a border between
a small country and the largest
country in the world. It is a
language frontier, a cultural
borderline and a religious divide.
Today it is perhaps the world’s
deepest social divide in which
the expected lifespan of men on
one side of the border can be a
quarter less than those on the
other side.
A documentarian needs
stories and Russian Karelia is full
of them. Life is in many ways
more varied and colourful than
in the dull, combed back and
pressed west. The adventure
begins beyond the border.
Grand Prix, Matsalu International
Nature Film Festival 2010, Estonia
Best film in the Baltic Region,
Green Vision Festival 2011, St.
Petersburg
The Finest Rivers of Finland
Nature documentary – 2006
Director Petteri Saario
Production DocArt Ky
Duration 6 x 29 min
HD
M/E
Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
With his 11-year-old son
Antti, the TV documentarian
Petteri Saario sets out to film
the gems of the Finnish rivers.
The river currents carry them
from the magnificent fells of
Lapland to the rugged wilderness
country between Finland and
Russia, from crystal clear source
streams on to bird paradise river
deltas and picturesque villages
along the river banks.
1st Prize in Category “Man and
Nature”. Matsalu Wildlife Film
Festival 2005, Estonia
The Pearls of the Baltic Sea
Nature documentary – 2004
Director Petteri Saario
Production DocArt Ky
Duration 6 x 45 min or 1 x 59 min
SD
M/E
Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
The Pearls of the Baltic
Sea is a story about a sailing
trip, during which the islands
Kotlin, Åland, Saaremaa, Gotland,
Bornholm and Hailuoto – the
Pearls of the Baltic Sea are
rediscovered. At the same time it
is a strong expression of opinion
for the survival of the nature
of our home sea and also the
people’s habits, the culture of the
archipelago.
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DOCUMENTARY
The Call of the Tantric Guru
Documentary – 2013
Director Riikka Kaihovaara
Production Yle, the Finnish
Broadcasting Company
Duration 29 min
SD
Available: Worldwide TV
The Romanian yoga school
MISA operates in almost 20
European countries. The school
has tens of thousands of
followers, but some of them have
had bad experiences.
Behind the scenes, things
happen that do not tolerate
daylight. The school acquires
funds from porn movies,
striptease and erotic tantric
massages. The movement has
characteristics of a cult.
The Truth about Sauna
Documentary – 2008
Director Nina Stenros and Anu Valve
Production Yle, the Finnish
Broadcasting Company
Duration 53 min
SD
Available: Worldwide TV
The Finnish sauna is the
hottest place in the world
where people go voluntarily.
For beginners a true and
original Finnish sauna may be
a challenging experience. The
mixture of fire, wood, aromas,
the heat and nakedness may be
too much for the inexperienced.
That is why they have to be told
the truth about the sauna. This
documentary gives any non-Finn
instructions on how to manage
a hot sauna in an honorable
(Finnish) way. How the benches
are to sit on, the stones in the
stove are meant to be hot and
water is to be thrown on them.
And that you may get out of
the sauna when you feel like
doing so.
Co-production ARTE
Rubens of the North
Documentary – 2011
Director Erkki Määttänen
Production Yle, the Finnish
Broadcasting Company
Duration 28 min
SD
Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
The video art of Kari
Tykkyläinen is inspired by the
swamps of his hometown
of Siurua, Finland, as well as
housewives and their seam
stockings.
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YouTube is the new forum for
this sculptor, who has received
various prizes for his art. He
has made a thousand videos on
the Internet, with over a million
hits so far. The videos are highly
popular, and there are fan clubs
in many countries.
Check out his art:
http://www.youtube.com/
profile?user=tykylevits
FACTUAL ENTERTAINMENT
FACTUAL ENTERTAINMENT
The Norden
Factual entertainment – 2014
Production Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting
Company
Duration 6 x 28 min
HD
M/E
Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
What happens when a rugged and
experienced warden from Attica State
Prison, New York, visits the almost
luxurious Norwegian prison Halden –
hailed by Time Magazine as the “most
humane prison in the world”? How
does a pastor from a congregation in
Alabama feel when he’s almost alone
in the church during a Sunday service
in Copenhagen? In this six-episode
series, we look at the Nordic welfare
model from an outsider’s perspective.
We tackle issues like equality, family
relations, social security, and civil rights.
Co-production with DR, NRK, RUV, SVT
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FACTUAL ENTERTAINMENT
Off to Turkey
Life Style – 2012
Director Markku Värtö
Production Yle Finnish Broadcasting
Company
Duration 5 x 45 min
SD
Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
Two Finnish-Turkish young
women, Ayla Albayrak and Melis
Ari, travel to their other home
country of Turkey. They discover
the modern Turkey, find out
what’s trendy in Istanbul, meet
Turkish current authors and
musicians, but also visit beautiful
historic sites and introduce us to
delicious Turkish food.
Couch Crashers
Travel series – 2012
Director Pia Asikainen
Production Yle Finnish Broadcasting
Company
Duration 12 x 28 min
SD
Available: EU/ETA TV
Couch Crashers is a
multimedia travel programme
presenting two adventurous
young women, who stay in
people’s homes for a month in
the shadiest areas of Eastern
Europe. In this six-part TV series
couch crashers Lotta Kaihua and
Pia Asikainen travel around the
Black Sea crashing on people’s
couches and exploring unknown
countries from the sofa beds
and spare mattresses of ordinary
people.
Me and My Mom
Reality series – 2012
Director Anna-Kaisa Brenner, Raili
Löyttyniemi
Production Yle Finnish Broadcasting
Company
Duration 8 x 28 min
SD
Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
A mother and daughter
drive together to a place that
is in some way significant in
their common history. A car was
chosen as the filming location
because it enables intimate
conversation.
The great majority, some 95% of
the conversations take place in
the car.
The program concept was
developed in co-operation with
DR and IKON, Netherlands
Looking for Mr. Right
Reality series – 2012
Director Kaisa Alenius, Lulu Salmi
Production Yle, the Finnish
Broadcasting Company
Duration 8 x 28 min
SD
Available: EU/ETA TV
Why is it so difficult for
lovely women to meet Mr. Right,
although there is no shortage of
single people in today’s Finland?
The eight episodes of “Looking
for Mr. Right” depict the lives of
five thirty-something women
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trying to find a man. Emma, Leni,
Kati, Mesku and Riitta are nice,
highly educated and beautiful
women living in Helsinki. Why is
it so hard for them to find love?
The main characters are active,
culture-loving urbanites, which
is why the programme looks for
new ways of dating in cultural
contexts. What happens on poem
speed dates where a poem is
used to initiate the conversation?
Will fine arts or dance contribute
to finding Mr. Right?
DOCUMENTARY
Contact:
Maria Kivinen
Sales Executive
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+358 40 544 2404
Jonna Kälviä
Sales Executive
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Senior Sales Executive
[email protected]
+358 40 733 7066
Tuija Snellman
Head of Sales
[email protected]
+358 40 830 7022
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The Finnish Broadcasting Company
Radiokatu 5, Helsinki
Box 46
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Trailers:
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Photos:
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Good Purposes
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