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SALES CATALOGUE 2018 YLE SALES CATALOGUE 2018
DRAMA TRAVEL 03 Nerd: Dragonslayer666 19 In the Footsteps of the Normans 04 HasBeen Sound Tracker 05 Blind Donna Morbid Stories 06 Love & Order Wingman FACTUAL ENTERTAINMENT Tellus 20 Breaking the Cycle 07 Lola Upside Down Norden The Limit The Ivory Dog Justice of Love Jarkko and Deaf America Second Chance
08 Independence Day Ball Middle of the Road The Red Couple CURRENT AFFAIRS Raid 09 Unexpected Journey 21 On the Irish Border The Disciple Catalonia - War of the Flags Raspberry Boat Refugee 22 Isis - the Nightmare of Raqqa 10 Alma de Sant Pere Escaping the Venezuelan Nightmare In the Footsteps of Young Werther The Bloody Peace in Colombia Conversations Between Men 23 Two Steps to Death 11 Seventeen Venezuela Crumbling Mental 24 #trumpland #lovemilla Russia - 100 Years Later Heroes ot the Baltic Sea Greek Conscience Whatever 25 Izmir - a Human Bazar Death in the Philippines A Mexican Murder Story KIDS For Kibera!
12 Winter Ghost Uku-Uku’s Enchanted Jungle DOCUMENTARY Archipellina and the Curious Cold 13 Albi the Snowman 26 I’m Somewhere Albi Saves Christmas Metamorphoses Doohickeyville Life in Four Elements Dibidogs 27 To Nightwish With Love Boris the Rat Project Rockin’ High 14 Rolli and the Secret of All Time The Grosser Mercedes Rolli and the Golden Key Crazy- Crazier- Junior High Santa Claus and the Magic Drum NATURE Rescuing Santa 28 The Sea That Disappeared Forest Survivors MUSIC & DANCE 29 Urban Nature Magic of the Wilderness 15 Autumn Sonata Enclosed by Water Sebastian Fagerlund Lakes of Finland Tero Saarinen - Jean Sibelius: Kullervo 30 Love of the Wild Finland 100 - RSO 90 Back to Nature 16 Seven Symphonies By Sibelius 31 Saving the Nordic Nature Sort of Sibelius Landlocked Seals Notes on Saariaho The Untouchable Bothnian Sea 17 Inside Quartet Lab - Birth of a Concert 32 Contact Quartet Lab: In Concert Vigilia 18 Dreams of Replay Cold Storage Trailers: vimeo.com/ylesales Subsurface Noste - an Underwater Dance DRAMA
Nerd: Dragonslayer 666
Comedy series for youth - 2017 A comedy series on eSports, and one young man’s quest to put together Duration: 8 x 12 min / 4 x 25 min the ultimate team and conquer the world. Or in this case, to take part Seasons 2&3 IN PRODUCTION 2018 in the world famous eSports tournment in Jönköping, Sweden. But there HD, M&E will be obstacles on the way, the likes of the Mother. A humorous series Production: Dionysos Films about a 19-year old gamer DragonSlayer666, who’s mum destroys his Director: Aleksi Delikouras computer. To be a professional player and to realize his dream, he’s forced Available: Worldwide TV, VOD to step out of his room, face the real world and learn the meaning of Pre-teen, Teenagers friendship and team work. The film is based on a popular and award-winning novel series, written by Aleksi Delikouras.
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20-year old Niklas faces an existential crisis. At the age of HasBeen 14, he was the winner of a popular singing competition TV-series. He was awarded a record contract and became Drama comedy series - 2018 NIC, a boy star whose first album became the best-selling Duration: 10 x 10-15 min record of the new Millennium in Finland. His second album Season 2 IN PRODUCTION 2018 however bombed, and Niklas was sent packing by the label. HD, M&E The years after he has almost completed high school, done Production: Welhofilmi Ltd. odd acting jobs, lately in the popular daily soap A New Director: Oskari Sipola Day. When work in the show ends, he has tough decisions Script: Oskari Sipola, Johannes Brotherus ahead. Does Niklas have a future, or is he washed up at 20 Available: Worldwide TV, VOD years old, nothing but a hasbeen?
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Blind Donna
Comedy series - 2018 Duration: 10 x 24 min HD, M&E Production: Production House Ltd Available: Worldwide TV, VOD Co-production: NRK
How does it feel when every date is a blind date? Donna is a 27-year-old woman looking for love. Her partner, the egocentric bassoon player André, suddenly leaves her after six years, and Donna is left alone in their big house. To make the situation even worse, André wants the house for himself and his new, young girlfriend. However, Donna decides to move on and find the prince of her dreams.
BLIND DONNA is a fresh version of a romantic comedy, but at the same time it shows the dirty realities of the dating game. The style of the series is raunchy and politically incorrect: the impairment of the main character is not pitied, neither are her mistakes glorified. BLIND DONNA is full of twisted humour and embarrassment stretched to its limits.
Morbid Stories
Drama series - 2016 Duration: 4 x 45 min, HD Production: Solar Films Inc. Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
“Morbid Stories” is a macabre black comedy series in four independent, partly overlapping episodes linked to- gether by the cast. The series parodies the phenomena of our time; reality TV, stereotypes, success, idols and gender roles.
Episode 1 – Friends in High Places Episode 2 – Hockey Wife Episode 3 – The Maypole Episode 4 – What Really Happened?
5 DRAMA Love & Order
- An Emotional Disaster Drama
Mini series - 2017 Duration: 3 x 55 min, HD, M&E Production: Aamu Film Company Ltd. Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
AFTER THE DEVASTATION caused by the superstorm Tuula, the reconstruction of Finland doesn’t seem to get started. It’s not only the infrastructure that has suffered, but also the people, especially men. Being the more sensitive of the sexes, bodily love seems to wreak havoc among men like an epidemic. How will the society survive? And the men themselves? As human relations crumble and fall, it’s detective inspector Rauni Kolehmainen who tries to keep the world in one piece.
Wingman
Sitcom - 2016 Duration: 8 x 10 min, HD Xmas special 21 min Production: Yle Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
WINGMAN is an awkward comedy about two guys, Juhis and Tommi, who end up in bizarre and odd situations. The daily life poses surprising challenges to this dynamic duo. Everyday situations escalate, and the guys are left with two bad choices on how to get out.
OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS, a group of activists have executed a series of eco-motivated sabotages, Tellus carefully planned not to harm people. They have not made a single error and the police are Eco-thriller 2014 - Director JP Siili totally without leads. Their first mistake acciden- Production Yle tally kills someone and the hunt is on. The group 6 x 50min HD, M&E needs to make a decision – to stop, to continue Available: Worldwide TV, VOD – or to take it to the next level. That would mean Distribution: Yle Sales, ZDFE deliberate kills. 6 Co-production with SVT, NRK DRAMA Lola Upside Down Drama series - 2016 Duration: 6 x 55 min, HD Director: Ulrika Bengts Production: Långfilm Productions Ltd. Available: Worldwide TV, VOD, Remake
LOLA UPSIDE DOWN IS BASED ON A NOVEL by Monika Fagerholm. It’s a story about four young girls living in a small town in Finland, Flatnäs. It’s a town run by a patriarchal hierarchy, which also shadows the girls’ lives. Each girl has an important father figure, and the main theme of the series is growing up into womanhood in a male dominated world. Justice of Love
Drama series - 2016 Duration: 3 x 50 min HD Directors: Matti Ijäs, Juha Lehtola Production: Yle Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
JUSTICE OF LOVE TELLS ABOUT YOU AND ME. We are all potential criminals - because of our love. Ordinary people end up in court every day. In the series they are the accused because of their love. Each episode is inspired by a real court case in which the defendant had not planned to commit a crime. How did things slipp out of control before the protagonist became an offender? There is very little blood and very few cops in the series, it’s not a court room or law office drama. All stories are built around the eternal circle of love and crime. The Limit
Mini series – 2014 Director Hanna Maylett Production Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting Co. Duration 3 x 50 min HD, M/E Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
ANJA 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, who 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 Second Chance
Dramedy series – 2014 Director Lauri Nurkse Production Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting Company Duration 6 x 50 min HD Available: Worldwide TV, VOD, Remake
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. 7 DRAMA Independence Day Ball
Drama - 2017 Director: Tapio Piirainen Production: Yle Duration: 70 min, HD Available: Worldwide TV, VOD Co-production: DR, NRK, SVT and RUV
A WARM AND FUNNY ROAD MOVIE of a famous, young philosopher Bruno, who tries to make it from Lapland to the President’s Independence Day Ball in Helsinki, but ends up in “real” Finland instead, meeting those who are never invited to such grand parties. In the end, Bruno misses the ball, but learns to understand life in our tough, modern world.
The Red Couple
Drama series - 2015 Director Heidi Köngäs Production: Yle Duration 3 x 58 min, HD M&E Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
THE SERIES TELLS THE STORY of the Finnish communist couple Hertta Kuusinen and Yrjö Leino, who changed Finnish politics forever. Their love story is marked by passion, devotion and betrayal. They start as underground political activists and end as ministers in the government. What happens when a head- strong and intelligent woman is blinded by passion and her loved one by fear? Was Leino in fact a double agent? Did his secret actions keep Finland out of the eastern bloc?
Middle Of The Road Raid
TV-movie - 2013 Classic crime drama series – 2000 Director Matti Ijäs Production Yle Director Tapio Piirainen Production Yle Duration 85 min HD, M/E Available: Worldwide TV, VOD Duration 12 x 38 – 46 min HD Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
AN ASPHALT CONTRACTOR, who has sacrificed his life to A POLICE OFFICER who has been investigating white-collar make a profit, finds himself in a financial dead-end. The ever crimes is shot dead in a TV studio. Another policeman gentle-minded road engineer Rauno Kannisto is hired to the takes his own life at his summer home. A young woman, an construction site, to build a road that cuts through the vast executive with a powerful electronics concern, also commits forests by the Russian border. Soon, Rauno finds himself in a suicide. Her embittered father suspects foul play and he invites 8 situation where he doesn’t know which way to turn. Raid, the woman’s former boyfriend to ”make inquiries”. DRAMA / FEATURE FILM
Unexpected Journey
Feature film - 2017 Duration: 75 min, HD Production: Solar Films Inc. Available: TV, VOD
VEIKKO IS AN OLD RACIST FART, who has lives in an apartment block filled with a colourful selection of refugees and immigrants. Kamal is a 17-year-old boy, who dreams of moving to Kenia, to live with his father. Veikko hires Kamal to drive him to his cottage, with a few turns on the way. On the road Veikko and Kamal learn a lot and start to like each other. The Disciple
Feature film - 2013 90 min HD, M&E Production: Långfilm Prod. Finland Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
THE DRAMA THRILLER DISCIPLE is set in the summer of 1939, when 13-year-old Karl arrives on an isolated island in the Baltic Sea to work as lighthouse master Hasselbond’s assistant. Hasselbond, however, turns him down because of his young age. Karl struggles desperately to stay on and makes friends with Hasselbond’s oppressed son, Gustaf, but their friendship changes to rivalry and hate when Hasselbond starts to favor Karl over his own son.
Winner of the Telia Award, Gothenburg Film Festival 2014
Raspberry Boat Refugee
Feature Film - 2014 Duration: 93 min, HD Production: MRP Matila Röhr Productions & Eyeworks Scandi Fiction Available: Worldwide TV
THE RASPBERRY BOAT REFUGEE is an exuberant and playful spoof of Scandinavian stereotypes which tells the story of Helsinki resident Mikko, a man who is sure that he is a Swedish soul trapped in a Finnish body.
Best Nordic Film Award 2014
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Alma de Sant Pere
Feature film – 2016 Duration: 90 min, HD Production: Vegetarian Films Language: Spanish Available: Nordic TV, VOD
Five young people from Barcelona are reach- ing for their dreams, owning their first million, no matter how. When the real estate bubble bursts, everything collapses, and they have to own up to their responsibilities. Alma de Sant Pere gives the financial crises a humane face.
In the Footsteps of Young Werther
Feature film – 2013 Duration: 90 min, HD Production: Vegetarian Films Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
A father and a son who do not know each other, but would have liked to. A story about getting free from a burden that has been carried for years, and of a first love.
Conversations Between Men
Feature film - 2013 Duration: 90 min, HD Production: Vegetarian Films Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
A succesful novelist faces some difficult questions as he starts to write a novel on the war in Yugoslavia. A novel is born, and with it the writer becomes an artist.
10 DRAMA Youth
Seventeen Mental
Black comedy series - 2016 Documentary drama – 2017 Duration: 15 x 6-10 min or 4 x 28 min 3 x 50 min, HD Season 2 IN PRODUCTION HD, M&E Production: Yle Production: It’s Alive Films Available: Worldwide TV, VOD Available: Worldwide TV, VOD, Format
The documentary drama Seventeen tells two intertwining MENTAL takes place in a psychiatric hospital where four stories from the year 1917, the year when Finland gained its young people end up for different reasons. We get a close, independence. Olivia and Iita are two 17-year-old girls straight look, tinged with warmth and humour, into the lives struggling towards independence. At the same time Finland, of 17-year-old Papillon, Nightingale, Snow-white and Hyde, as under the leadership of the then Prime Minister Oskari Tokoi, they struggle through troubled reality towards independence. struggles to free itself from the reign of Russia. MENTAL is a format that combines quality fiction, social media stars, peer-to-peer stories, and actual help.
The Heroes of Whatever #lovemilla the Baltic Sea Drama – 2014 Multiplatform Dramedy – Production: Yle 2013 – 2014 Action drama: 52 min - 2016 Duration 6 x 28 min Production: It’s Alive Films Reality game show: HD, M/E Duration 72 x 3-6 min or 1 x 45 min + 4 x 28 min Available: Worldwide TV, VOD Seasons 1 and 2: 105 min, HD, M&E Season 3: 3x28 min Production: Yle WHATEVER TELLS ABOUT THE HD, M/E Available: Worldwide TV, FRIENDSHIP between two seemingly Available: Worldwide TV, VOD opposites, Kasper, a boy confined VOD, Format in an elite school and Ida, an #LOVEMILLA tells a story of 17- abandoned girl. Whatever is an year old Milla and her friends, who HEROES OF THE BALTIC SEA is a action-packed adventure series, spend their days in a cafeteria of new television format created by dealing with in-depth themes, an unnamed small town. The story Yle. The 5-episode series is a genre such as the acceptance of diversity, is told through content pieces that hybrid in which historical drama forgiveness and the price of success. are scattered along social media functions as a frame story for a It is a series for children from and TV. scripted adventure reality. The action packed historical seven years up, as well as for wider pirate drama is also available as a audiences. Winner of the EUROVISION tv-movie. Creative Fiction Formats in 2014
11 KIDS
Winter Ghost Animated fairy tale - 2017 24 min HD, M&E Studio: GS Animation Production: Epidem/Nukufilm Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
Hendrick would like to have friends. But he is confronted with Annie, who thinks he is as a good-for-nothing. The Winter Ghost is an entertaining children’s film, with graphics based on Pieter Bruegel’s paintings.
Uku-Uku’s Enchanted Jungle Animated fairy tale - 2017 24 min HD, M&E Studio: GS Animation Production: Epidem Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
Uku-Uku’s Enchanted Jungle tells the story of two little girls who are both lonely, but for different reasons. Saskia is a traveller who is always on the road with her granny and the lion Arno. Marie has a leg injury which means she walks with a limp. She feels lonely because her cousin, Tina, doesn’t want her company. But when Saskia and Marie get together, an ordinary greenhouse turns into a fantasy world, and problems have surprising solutions. The story and the visuals are inspired by Henri Rousseau’s paintings.
Archipellina and the Curious Cold Children’s animation - 2016 Created by Antonia Ringbom Production Långfilm Productions Duration 28 min HD, M&E Available: Worldwide TV, VOD Pre-school
IT’S SUMMER IN THE ARCHIPELLINA ISLANDS. But Craw, a young crow with dreams of being a hero, notices that everything is not as it should be. Ice-cold mist is forming near the Klippon Island, and the sea is swirling in a very curious way. It’s Mr Sourpump and his handyman Outdump who have stolen the heat from the sea. Craw has to stop them! 12 KIDS Albi The Snowman & Albi Saves Christmas
Children’s animation - 2014, 2016, 2017 Production: Hima Light Ltd. 26 x 5 min + 15 min Christmas Special Non-verbal, HD, Pre-school
ALBI IS A JOVIAL SNOWMAN, who lives in the land of eternal snow, together with a little birdie and a worm. These two have made a nest into the empty can of tomato soup, which Albi wears as a hat. To Albi, home is where the snow is, but the lack of furniture gives the place a not-so-homely feel. Albi has a stroke of genius, and he starts to build an armchair out of snow. The idea flourishes and soon he has a cozy home. Doohickeyville
Puppet drama - 2016 Duration: 12 x 11 min HD, M&E In development: 20 x 11 min 2017 Production: Yle Available: Worldwide TV, VOD Pre-school
HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED, where everything you ever lost ends up? All the socks, keys, penguins, mustaches, umbrellas that get left behind in trains, buses and bus- stops? All the lonesome mittens, elephants, scrunchies, underpants and spectacle cases. They end up at the Doohickeyville Lost & Found!
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 SD, M/E Ages 4-10 Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
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 school-age pups Adi and Jessica and their friends. 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. Boris the Rat
Animation - 2014, 2017 Production: Kaiho Republic Duration 26 x 5 min, HD, M&E Available: Worldwide TV, VOD Pre-school BORIS IS A RAT WITH ISSUES. He lives in Helsinki, Finland, where his antics have got him in over his head. Luckily, he runs into a whole different kettle of fish in demure Anneli the Baltic Herring who is a lady of refined taste. The encounter changes both their lives. Boris decides to turn his life around. His madness attracts the attention of the authorities. Anneli is deeply embarrassed. Will Boris and Anneli’s life-long friendship withstand the Rat’s regular trips to jail? Boris is soon to learn the lesson of his life. 13 KIDS
Rolli and the Secret of All Time
Fantasy feature film - 2016 80 min, HD Producuction: MRP Matila Röhr Productions Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
Rolli and little girl Juniper decide to find out the way to The Beginning of All Time. They are in for the greatest adventure of their lives. This demands resourcefulness, defiance, courage and open minds.
Rolli and the Golden Key Fantasy feature film - 2013 86 min, HD Producuction: MRP Matila Röhr Productions Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
A flock of storks fly in the misty sky, all carrying white bundles. One of the bundles falls down, and with it a little girl called Juniper ends up in a strange world. She meets an old troll called Rolli who tells the girl his own, eventful story. The girl and the troll become friends, and together they encounter a dangerous threat against the fairytale woods.
Crazy - Crazier - Junior High
Animation - 2015, 2017 Season 1: 8 x 5 min NEW: Season 2/ 4 x 5 min Creator: Tuomas Toivainen HD, M&E Schoolchildren
Schoolboys with their zits and hormones are the heroes in this satiric animation series. Antti, the main character is 13 years old, and together with his best pals Kalle and Keijo they meet all sorts of puzzling characters both at school and in their free time. This series became vastly popular among the target audience in Finland, no wonder since the creator himself is 17 years of age. Santa Claus And The Magic Drum
Animation – 1996 Christmas preparations are well on the Created by Mauri Kunnas way, but all is not okay. Who put pepper in Production Yle, the Finnish the ginger snaps? Who put out the Northern Broadcasting Company Lights? Why does a virus mess up Santa’s Duration 50 min computer, just when he is about to solve a HD, M/E tricky Christmas mystery? Who is teasing Available: Worldwide TV, VOD Santa and why? Rescuing Santa
Drama Series, Scripted Format and Turnkey Production all in one - 2014 Duration: 6 x 28 min HD, M/E Available: Worldwide TV RESCUING SANTA is a six-episode family holiday musical. It’s a timeless story filled with hope, friendship and courage. Santa has disappeared and four children, invited as special guests to Christmas Wonderland, might be the only hope of saving Christmas! Created by Aito Media, Small World IFT and Yle. Produced by Aito Media and Yle. Ready-made distributed by Yle Sales. 14 Format distributed by Small World IFT. MUSIC & DANCE
Opera - 2017 Autumn Sonata Production: Yle, Finnish National Opera Duration: 125 min HD Composer: Sebastian Fagerlund TV-director: Hannu Kamppila Conductor: John Storgards Main actor: Anne Sofie von Otter Orchestra: FNO Orchestra Available: Worldwide TV
Autumn Sonata is a multilayered and powerful relationship drama. It is also the meeting of a story by cinema legend Ingmar Bergman and the music of Sebas- tian Fagerlund, one of the most highly acclaimed Finnish composers of his generation.
Sebastian Fagerlund Music documentary - 2017 Production: Pekka Hako Productions Ltd. Duration: 58 min / 75 min HD Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
For two years, the documentary follows Sebastian Fagerlund, the internationally famed Finnish composer. We see the opera Autumn Sonata in the making, from the first drafts to the first rehearsals. The opera is based on the movie script by Ingmar Bergman. Finland 100 - RSO 90
Tero Saarinen - Concert - 2017 Duration: Total 180 min, Jean Sibelius: concert 120 min Production: Yle Kullervo Conductor: Hannu Lintu Orchestra: The Finnish Radio Dance and Opera - 2015 Symphony Orchestra Duration: 90 min, HD Available: Worldwide TV, VOD Co-production: Finnish National Opera, Yle and ARTE Lotta Wennäkoski: Uniin asti, fp Available: Worldwide TV (Yle and Polytech Choir commission) Magnus Lindberg: Tempus fugit, fp THE INTERNATIONALLY ACCLAIMED (Yle commission) Finnish choreographer Tero Saarinen Jean Sibelius: Kullervo directs a chef d’œuvre of Finnish music, KULLERVO, a symphonic poem by Jean Sibelius. Saarinen’s compelling Niina Keitel, mezzo-soprano interpretation forges together the Tuomas Pursio, baritone dancers of the Finnish National Polytech Choir, coach Saara Aittakumpu Ballet and Tero Saarinen Company Eesti Rahvusmeeskoor with music performed by the FNO orchestra, choir and soloists as well as the Helsinki Philharmonic Chorus.
15 MUSIC Seven Symphonies by Sibelius
Documentaries and symphonies: 7 x 60 min Documentary: 1 x 50 min HD, M/E Production: Yle 2015 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, samples of symphonies and an introduction, filmed in e.g. Berlin, Stockholm and Vienna, all ending with the live recording of the symphony in question. All the symphonies are performed by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Hannu Lintu, in the new Helsinki Music Centre. The documentary sections of the programs, hosted and narrated by Hannu Lintu, can also been seen as a 50-minute- long separate program.
Sort of Sibelius! Short films - 2015 Duration: 8 x 10 min HD, M/E Production: Yle Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
8 FICTIONAL SHORT DOCUMENTARIES, Jean Sibelius updated. Eight expert views on the composer’s personality.
Sort of Sibelius! gives you a different perspective on Sibelius. The focus is not on the music, but on the person. The genre is fictional short documentary, with both acted drama and animation tricks. The commentator is Kaija Saariaho, a composer herself. Other interviewees are experts from various fields of life; a doctor, a couples therapist, a wine connoisseur and a wilderness guide to name a few. Sibelius left various diaries, letters, notes and receipts behind. They paint a picture of a merry and interesting personality. How accurate this impression is remains a mystery. Notes on Saariaho
Documentary - 2016 30 min, HD Production: Yle Available: Worldwide TV
KAIJA SAARIAHO is the most internationally recognized Finnish modern composer. Her compositions are performed worldwide all the time. During the filming of this portrait Saariaho is in her early sixties, and she ponders upon her life on the couches of her Paris and Helsinki homes. How did the sound sensitive and shy child grow up to be a successful composer? Notes on Saariaho shows us an honest and straight-forward woman, who needs light to compose and thinks listening to her own works is awkward.
16 MUSIC Inside Quartet Lab – Birth Of A Quartet
Documentary - 2013 Director Elina Heiskanen Four brilliant musicians Wispelwey, cello, are Production Yle, the Finnish searching for each other and conducting a unique Broadcasting Company for music, over seven intensive experiment during a week- Duration 58 min days. Pekka Kuusisto & Patricia long residency – will the HD Kopatchinskaja, violin, Lilli outcome be their first or their M/E Maijala, viola and Pieter last concert? Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
Quartet Lab: In Concert Concert - 2013 Director Elina Heiskanen After seven days of fierce Production Yle, the Finnish rehearsals the music is there: With Pekka Kuusisto & Broadcasting Company W. A. Mozart: Divertimento in D Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Duration 55 min Major, Benjamin Britten: String violin; Lilli Maijala, viola and HD Quartet No. 2, George Crumb: Pieter Wispelwey, cello. M/E Black Angels. Available: Worldwide TV, VOD 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. 17 DANCE Dreams of Replay
THE DANCE WORK DREAMS OF REPLAY combines virtuosic movement language with minimalistic stage design and a host of idiosyncratic characters. Susanna Leinonen, one of Finland’s leading contemporary choreographers, has Dance film - 2017 built the piece by looking back and Choreography: exploring the movement language from her previous choreographies. Susanna Leinonen Rather than re-use old material, she Direction: has created a new, unique world Thomas Freundlich inspired by the journey to her past. Duration: 57 min HD, UHD 4K Production: Lumikinos Production Ltd. Available: Worldwide TV, VOD Cold Storage COLD STORAGE IS A SHORT DANCE film that pays homage to the virtuosic physical performanes and melancholy comedy of the classic silent screen. With its engaging blend of Nordic humour and virtuosic storytelling in movement, Cold Storage is one of Finland’s most internationally Short film - 2016 acclaimed short films of recent Direction: Thomas Freundlich years, with over 150 film festival Duration: 9 min HD selections and 20+ awards to Production: date. Lumikinos Production Ltd. Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
Short film - 2015 Direction & cinematography: Subsurface Thomas Freundlich Duration: 7 min HD A DANCE SHORT FILM to the Production: Lumikinos music of the internationally Production Ltd. renowned avant-garde Available: Worldwide TV, VOD accordionist Kimmo Pohjonen. Subsurface uses archaic elements of nature as metaphors for the multiple levels of a relationship.
Noste - An Underwater Dance THE DANCE-THEMED SHORT FILM Noste is an aesthetic journey to the world of underwater dance. The dancing, the impressive Short film - 2014 underwater environments Director Marko Röhr and the touching music will Production: MRP Matila Röhr create an ethereal and thought Productions provoking visual work together. Duration 4 min, HD, DCP 2k Noste is a short film by dancer- Available: Worldwide TV, VOD choreographer Etel Röhr.
18 TRAVEL
In the Footsteps of the Normans
Travel & History - 2018 7 x 28 min HD, M&E Production: Filmaattiset Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
Ella Kanninen is a Finnish tv-journalist and writer, who has lived in Tuscany for years. In this tv-series she follows in the footsteps of the Norman conquerors from Campania to Sicily, through the beautiful parts of southern Italy, rich in Norman history.
Sound Tracker Music Program Series Season 1 2014 - 8 x 48 min Season 2 2015 - 6 x 48 min Season 3 2018 - 6 x 48 min HD, M/E Production: GIMMEYAWALLET Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
Photo: Meeri Koutaniemi
Finnish Emmy Winner 2014: Best Music TV Series
Finnish Emmy Winner 2015: Best Current Affair and Documentary Series
Sound Tracker Season 3 hit the screens again in early 2018. After 2 seasons its time to travel again to far flung places for some new sounds and experiences! 6 brand new episodes from 6 countries. Colombia, Israel and Palestine, Japan, Russia and Ireland opened their musical and cultural doors to us, to hear, see and experience the vibrancy of our world. In these times of division and anger, let’s focus on what unites us and what makes our world so special. Mind blowing music, culture, opinions and outlooks on life from all around the world is about to explode on your tv and computer screens again.
19 FACTUAL ENTERTAINMENT
The Norden
Episode 1 Prison episode 2 Work episode 3 religion episode 4 gender Breaking the Cycle episode 5 family episode 6 police
Factual entertainment – 2016 Production Yle Factual entertainment – 2014 Production Yle Duration 58 min HD Available: Worldwide TV, VOD Duration 6 x 28 min HD Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
THE DEPUTY WARDEN from the world’s most humane maximum What happens when an experienced warden from Attica State security prison, Halden Prison in Norway, goes on a mission to Prison, New York, visits the almost luxurious Norwegian prison Halden? change one of the most notorious prisons in the world – Attica How does a pastor from a congregation in Alabama feel when he’s Correctional Facility in New York State. Breaking the Cycle is a almost alone in the church during a Sunday service in Copenhagen? documentary that raises a moral dilemma for the viewer – what In the series we look at the Nordic welfare model from an outsider’s should a prison environment be like, what should be the goal of perspective. incarceration – and what type of treatment would you, as a citizen, Co-production with DR, NRK, RUV, SVT be ok with?
The Ivory Dog Jarkko and Deaf America
Factual Entertainment Factual Entertainment - 2016 - 2016 Production: Duration: Arkhimedeen Piste Ltd. 5 x 30 min HD Duration: 7 x 28 min Production: Aito Media HD, M&E Available: Worldwide TV, Available: VOD Worldwide TV, VOD
THE IVORY DOG TELLS THE UNIQUE STORY of one man’s dream to IN THE SERIES WE TRAVEL WITH JARKKO KERÄNEN from the save the African elephant from extinction. city of Rochester, NY to Washington, Atlanta, Austin, Huntsville, The former police detective Toni Lahtinen has trained his labrador and finally to San Francisco. In Finland, deaf people often hit a thick dog Rokka to sniff out ivory. Ivory is one of the hardest substances to glass ceiling. On his journey, Jarkko meets many successful deaf detect, and Rokka displays superior aptitude for the job. professionals who speak sign language, including an airplane pilot, a For the first time a foreigner is working side by side with Tanzania’s physician, a NASA engineer, and a rodeo cowboy, highest security forces trying to stop the ivory smugglers. 20 CURRENT AFFAIRS
WHAT WILL HAPPEN TO THE BORDER between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland when Britain leaves the European Union?
A free and open border has proved vital to the economies of both Northern and Southern Ireland. Will Brexit prompt an economic downturn and trigger a return to sectarian tensions and smuggling? We travel the length of the border from Warrenpoint in the east to Derry in the north west to ask the people for their hopes and fears concerning the border after Brexit.
Current affairs - 2018 Duration: 55 min HD On the Irish Border Production: Yle Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
Catalonia - War of the Flags
Current affairs - 2018 Duration: 59 min HD Production: Yle Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
THE CATALAN DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE ended up in the loss of the local government and the capture of the whole of the Catalan regional administration. 21 CURRENT AFFAIRS
Current affairs - 2018 Duration: 55 min HD Production: Yle Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
IN THIS DOCUMENTARY we go to Isis for- mer capital Raqqa in Syria as people return to their destroyed city. How was it to live almost four years under Isis rule? We meet the victims of Isis, but also members of the terror organization: a child fighter, a wife of an Isis fighter and an European Isis prisoner. In a touching scene a father has to explain to his 4 year old daughter how and why Isis cut off his hand and foot. The documentary team also managed to find unique locations in Raqqa: The office of an Isis judge and a media center where execu- tions were possibly filmed. The city was more or less leveled in a military operation that pushed Isis out. For the salafi jihadists Raqqa is a strong propaganda symbol. Now is the Isis - the Nightmare of Raqqa moment to decide what will be the legacy of the city.
Current affairs - 2018 Duration: 55 min HD Production: Yle Escaping the Venezuelan Available: Worldwide TV, VOD Nightmare THOUSANDS, TENS OF THOUSANDS of people escape the Venezuelan revolution turned deadly to its own citizens. Daily. Exhausted people cross the border to Colombia, just to find out the money they carry in Vene- zuelan bolivars is worthless. People end up sleeping in roundabouts and sports fields. Hungry and desperate. In Caracas people are suffering. Every sixth child is severely malnourished. Hospitals and public health have collapsed. More and more people are eating garbage to survive. A mother has just received his terminally ill son from hospital. They told there’s no medicine to help him so they send him home. The son has diabetes. That wouldn’t be a problem in any normal country. But Venezuela is not a normal country. The Bloody Peace in Colombia
Current affairs - 2017 Duration: 50 min HD Production: Yle Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
THE PEACE TREATY that was signed in Colombia a year ago did not end the violence in the country. Even more village leaders, peace activists and guerilla who have put down their weapons are being murdered than before the peace treaty.
22 CURRENT AFFAIRS Two Steps to Death
Documentary - 2016 Duration: 28 min HD, M&E Production: Yle Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
THE ISIS ORGANIZATION is losing ground in Iraq. The mines left behind are causing serious problems to both soldiers and civilians. The photographer Niklas Meltio was in the front-line with the Kurdish soldiers, and he witnessed how a valued soldier disassembled his last mine.
Venezuela Crumbling Documentary - 2016 Duration: 53 min, HD Production: Yle Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
VENEZUELA IS RAPIDLY HEADED towards a total humanitarian catastrophy while the president blaims a non-existent economic war. Violence is growing, and there is a severe shortage of food and medications. Venezuela Crumbling is a current documentary with rare footage of what is going on right now in Venezuela.
Colombia - No Graves for Grieving
Documentary - 2016 Duration: 50 min HD, M&E Production: Yle Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
OVER 220 000 PEOPLE have been murdered in the Co- lombian civil war, and tens of thousands are missing. The pain of the people who have lost their nearest and dearest is inconsolable, there are even no graves to grieve by.
23 CURRENT AFFAIRS #trumpland
Documentary - 2017 55 min, HD, M&E Production: Yle Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
MCDOWELL COUNTY in West Virginia has faced the structural changes in the American economy in a large scale. In the ‘60s there were 100.000 inhabit- ants in the county. There are only 18.000 left. It is also one of the most impoverished counties in the United States. It has also always been one of the major areas for the Democrats. But the situation has changed: in the last Presidential Elections, 3 out of 4 voted for Donald Trump.
Russia - 100 Years Later
Documentary - 2017 55 min, HD, M&E Production: Yle Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
THE BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION of 1917 created the first ever communist superpower and the Soviet Union played a major role in world politics throughout the 20th century. 26 years ago the USSR disappeared from world stage. What do we have today? A 100 years later, Russia is an aggressive, autocratic, anti-Western country where military rhetorics play a key role in everyday politics. Russia’s legacy today is created with a strong accent to the Soviet past, especially to WWII and the victory over Nazi Germany. Today, Stalin is no longer remembered as a paranoid tyrant who killed millions of innocent Soviet citizens, but as a clever warlord and leader. There is one episode in the Soviet history though, which is largely ignored in the Kremlin propaganda: The October Revolution. Revolution is by definition a bad word to Vladimir Putin.
The Greek Conscience
Documentary - 2016 Duration: 53 min, HD Production: Yle Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
INSPITE OF THEIR OWN ECONOMIC DIFFICULTIES, the Greek have been generously helping the hundreds of thousands of refugees that pass through their country. The volunteers on the island of Lesbos are nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
24 CURRENT AFFAIRS Izmir - a Human Bazar
Documentary - 2016 Duration: 56 min, HD M&E Production: Yle Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
THE TOWN OF IZMIR on the coast of the Aegean Sea is the meeting point of people running away from war, and the human traffickers.Thousands of refugees come to Izmir every day searching for a pas- sage to Europe.
Death in the Philippines
Documentary - 2017 Duration: 54 min HD, M&E Production: Yle Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
IN THE PHILIPPINES, the president Rodrigo Duterte has given the police licence to kill drug users. In a six- month period, over 7000 people, suspected or proven drug users, have been killed.
A Mexican Murder Story
Documentary - 2016 Duration: 52 min, HD Production: Yle Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
A FINNISH HUMAN RIGHTS DEFENDER Jyri Jaakkola was killed in 2010 by paramilitary troops in the state of Oaxaca in Southwestern Mexico. His mother Eve Jaakkola has since then been trying bring the murderers of her son to trial. The documentary evolves from a story of an individual’s fight for justice into a more general narrative about a struggle against a culture of impunity which prevails in Mexico. It shows bluntly why Mexico has such a dismal human rights record.
For Kibera!
Documentary - 2015 Duration: 56 min, HD M&E Production: Yle Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
FOR KIBERA! is a story of the life of a slum-dweller turned to radio personality, journalist and self-made cameraman: Boy Dallas of Kibera. The film looks for answers to the complicated question: Why is it so hard to beat poverty? We learn the tough rules of slum life with Dallas as our guide. He notes the large amount of aid projects in his slum, Kibera, and he starts learning about the complicated mechanisms of aid.
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I’m Somewhere
Documentary – 2017 58 min, HD Production: Yle Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
WHAT‘S EVERYDAY LIFE like with no short-term memory? For years, the journalist Tuula Rajavaara recorded her mother Aili Rajavaara suffering from a memory disorder. Aili lived at home and on a respite ward. Together, mother and daughter tackle the evermore surreal everyday life. I’m Somewhere is an insight into the unique world of memory disorder. The focus is on Aili and her endless joy of life. With her example, Aili wants to remove the stigma on memory disorders and show that life won’t end with the diagnosis. Managing life with her is the frustrated daughter. Bubbly humour makes anxious moments easier.
Documentary - 2017 Duration: 75 min HD, M&E Metamorphoses Production: Yle Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
METAMORPHOSES CENTERS around four young, ambitious women living a highly disciplined and structured life to achieve the desired Bikini Fitness competition body. For these women their body is a subject of constant observation and re- flection. It is to be controlled, changed, modified and constructed. And finally, the gaze of an external observer – that of a coach and a judge – will determine when that well-crafted figure is complete and whose is the best.
Documentary - 2017 Life in Four Elements Duration: 73 min HD, M&E Production: MRP Matila Röhr Productions Avalaible: Worldwide TV, VOD
FOUR ELEMENTS tells about the four classical elements - Earth, Water, Air, Fire - via four unique characters. The unforgettable life sto- ries of our protagonists tell about friendship and dreams, birth and death. About people behind extreme experiences.
Winner of BEST FILM MOUNTAINS, SPORTS AND ADVENTURE 2018 at the Slovenian Mountain Film Festival 26 DOCUMENTARY
To Nightwish With Love
Documentary - 2016 Duration: 58 min, HD Production: Yle Available: Worldwide TV, VOD, Format
WHAT ARE NIGHTWISH FANS LIKE, where do they live, and what do they dream about? Filmed by the fans themselves, the documentary relates their passion, devotion and admiration for Nightwish. To Nightwish with Love is an international project that portrays Nightwish fans around the world. Nightwish is one of most succesful metal bands in Europe: the band’s videos have had 680 million views on YouTube during the last fifteen months. The band has sold 8 million records, and its Facebook page has 4.4 million likes. The music of Nightwish connects people across countries and continents. Project Rockin’ High -The real-life Spinal Tap
Music documentary - 2016 70 min or 52 min, HD Production: Production House Ltd. Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
THE FINNISH HARD ROCK BAND ANCARA decides to play the world highest rock gig in the Mount Everest Base Camp. They hope to get their name to the Guinness World Record and break through worldwide at the same time. Sponsors are urgently needed because the musicians are out of money, but it turns out to be really hard to convince them. Record compa- nies find AncarA guys over-aged for the music market. Is there an expiry date for dreaming? And why does everything get messed up? The Grosser Mercedes
Documentary - 2017 45 min, HD, M&E Production: Videoverkko Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
C. G. E. MANNERHEIM, the former president of Finland, received as a gift an armoured Mercedes-Benz 770 Offener Tourenwagen from Hitler in 1941. It was the most expensive car in the world at that time. The car was soon sold, first to Sweden and from there to the United States. From the year 1984 it has been in the possession of William Lyon, a re- tired U.S. Air Force Major General in his private car museum. 27 NATURE
Nature documentary - 2018 The Sea That Disappeared Duration: 53 min HD, M&E Production: Tuotantoyhtiö Aranu Oy THE KVARKEN ARCHIPELAGO and its unique Available: Worldwide TV, VOD nature were shaped by the ice age. The rich environment offers ample opportunities for various bird species for nesting, as well as the migrant birds that stop there to rest.
Forest Survivors
Nature documentay - 2018 Duration: 48 min HD, M&E Production: NaturPro Films Oy Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
THE NORDIC WINTER is a severe challenge to the forest animals. But not everyone is intim- idated by the meters of snow and the biting frost and freeze. Many species survive in the forest. Forest Survivors shows the wisdom of these animals, during the four seasons. Tiny cameras hidden in the moss reveal how for example the squirrel prepares for winter. The beautiful Finnish nature shows all its glory!
28 NATURE The Urban Jungle Nature & Travel Documentary - 2017 6 x 30 min, HD, M&E Production: DocArt Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
IN THIS 6-EPISODE SERIES we take a closer look at the nature that surrounds us in the city, the wild animals, the urban agriculture, the parks, the various natural playgrounds, and the healing power that nature has, even in the city. Our relationship with nature is changing, and the people in the city play a role in solving the environmental problems, and creating a sustainable future.
The Magic of the Enclosed by Water Wilderness Nature documentary – 2013 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 Nature Travel - 2015 is harsh but breathtakingly beautiful, and the island Duration: 6 x 28 min, HD, M&E inhabitants are as tough as the junipers fighting Production: DocArt against the wind on the outmost islets. Available: Worldwide TV, VOD Matsalu Nature Film Festival 2014: Best Photography THE MAGIC OF THE WILDERNESS PORTRAYS the untouched nature of the Finnish wilderness, packed with immaterial natural resources such as silence, darkness and the intact scenery. The series tells us a story of our increasingly fragile relationship with nature, and our innermost longing to live in harmony with the nature.
Barents Ecology Film Festival 2016: Best Documentary Lakes of Finland Nature documentary – 2012 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.
29 NATURE Love of the Wild
Nature series Season 1: 12 x 28 min 2016 Season 2: 12 x 28 min 2017 Season 3: 12 x 28 min In Production Production: NTRNZ media Ltd. Available: Worldwide TV, VOD HD, M&E
LOVE OF THE WILD follows the lives of five people who all breathe and live through nature. The programme provides a fresh and youthful per- spective to a natural way of life of which hunting and fishing are an integral part. The series introduces the most fascinating Nordic hunting and fishing locations, diving deep into the lives of true wilderness enthusiasts. We see Finnish and Nordic wildlife action more closely and genuinely than ever before.
Back to Nature
Nature Travel - 2016 9 x 30 min, HD, M&E Season 2 In Production Production: Power Animals United, Retkipaikka, Flatlight Creative House Available: Worldwide TV, VOD
BACK TO NATURE IS A TRAVEL SERIES combining outdoor adventure with mythology and storytelling. Extraordinary cinematography bring a relaxed magic to messages about the value of connecting with our natural world. Two hosts, a professional explorer and a modern mythologist take audiences to some of the most astounding and accessible locations in Nordic nature. Season one travels cover 8 regions and 24 locations in Finland. We experience natural beauty, explore mythology and ancient wisdom, and meet people, who by sharing their own journeys back to nature deepen our relationship with Mother Earth.
30 NATURE Saving the Nordic
Nature
Nature Series - 2016 Duration: 6 x 45 min, HD, M/E Production: Yle Available: Worldwide TV, VOD Co-production with Arte, DR
WILDLIFE JOURNALIST Kimmo Ohtonen looks into the conflict between man and Arctic wildlife The reporting takes him on an incredible journey to the remotest corners of the Nordic region, glaciers,northern mountains, virgin forests and the shores of the Arctic Ocean. The series shows how the future of wolves, wolverines, whales, polar bears, ringed seals and musk oxen looks increasingly gloomy while humans defend their conflicting viewpoints. The Untouchable Bothnian Sea
Nature Travel - 2015 Duration: 3 x 48 min, HD, M&E Production: Yle Available: Worldwide TV, VOD English language version
THE WEST COAST OF FINLAND borders on a vast sea area that is still in its natural state, the Bothnian Sea. The outer islands feel like a true wilderness. This magnificent, rocky archipelago is one of Eu- rope’s hidden treasures. Modern cameras will come within touching distance of the summer events from the perspective of the animals living there. The images will reveal sights never seen before. Summer in the Bothnian Sea is an unforgettable experience!
Landlocked Seals
Documentary - 2016 Production: Norppa Taskinen Ky Duration: 70 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 31 Contact:
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Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting Company Radiokatu 5, Helsinki Box 62 00024 Yleisradio, Finland
Trailers: www.vimeo.com/ylesales
Photos: Yle Photo Service Production Companies
Cover photos: Filmaattiset / In the Footsteps of the Normans NaturPro Films / Forest Survivors yle.fi/sales