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Eco-thriller 2014 03 Tellus 16 A Frozen War Director J-P Siili Ukraine In Pieces 04 The Stalker Production Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting Company Raid 17 Syria - Faces Of War 6 x 50min The Stars Will Tell, Inspector Palmu Kurdistan - Bridge Over Troubled Water HD, M&E Trapped Between Syria And Europe 05 Second Chance Available: Worldwide TV, VOD Distribution: Yle Sales, ZDFE The Limit 18 World’s Strongest Victim Larger Than Life One Man Peace OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS, a group of Eight Deadly Shots activists have executed a series of eco-mo- 19 Drug Diaries tivated sabotages, carefully planned not to 06 The Everlast Return Of The Baby Hatches harm people. They have not made a single Middle Of The Road Arvo error and the police are totally without Almost There Angel With A Broken Wing leads. Their first mistake accidentally kills

someone and the hunt is on. The group 07 Left And Right 20 Cruel Palm Oil needs to make a decision – to stop, to Red Ribbon Congo Of The Arctic Circle Snowflake Formation continue – or to take it to the next level. That would mean deliberate kills. 21 Emissionary Men Co-production with SVT KIDS & YOUTH A Sunny Experiment A 100 000 Year’s Problem 08 Whatever 22 Women On The Border #lovemilla Karen And Grigori 09 Rescuing Santa 23 Sofi Oksanen - Born To Write My Friend The Horse Soul Food The Adventures Of Reetta And Ronja The Truth About Sauna

24 Spanish Nurses 10 Albi The Snowman The Road To Silverstone Dibidogs Free Miles Balloon Swallower 11 Doghill Santa Claus And The Magic Drum

Mr Clay And His Magic Hat Pipalina FACTUAL ENTERTAINMENT Viivi And Leevi 25 The Norden Me & My Mom MUSIC & DANCE

12 Seven Symphonies By Sibelius NATURE 26 Enclosed By Water 13 Sort Of Sibelius! Lakes Of Sir Colin In The World Of Sibelius 27 Frontier Life 14 Birth Of A Quartet - Inside Quartet Lab The Finest Rivers Of Finland Quartet Lab: In Concert The Pearls Of The

15 Noste - An Underwater Dance 28 Children Of The Forest Vigilia Landlocked Seals Värttinä In Concert Crane Whisperer Stories From A Bear’s Lair

3 DRAMA NORDIC CRIME DRAMA The Limit The Stalker Mini series – 2014 Director Hanna Maylett Drama – 2012 Production Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting Co. Director Juha Rosma Duration 3 x 50 min HD, M/E Production Yle, the Finnish Available: Worldwide TV, VOD Broadcasting Company ANJA IS A LITERATURE PROFESSOR. When her Duration 2 x 55 min or 1 x 97 min husband was diagnosed with Alzheimer, she HD promised to end his sufferings in time. Her young Available: Worldwide TV, VOD niece Mari, 16, falls in love with her handsome teacher Julian, who has a loving wife at home. THE STALKER is a psychological Their sweet and wise daughter Anni, 6, studies thriller of a nightmare that invades daddy’s sudden change secretly. The three stories a young suburban mother’s life, in are elegantly woven together, as the three female the form of a jealous and possessive characters struggle with their lives and sometimes new boyfriend. When closeness flirt with death. turns into threat and love into fear, Co-production with SVT, RUV and your life is no longer yours, you have to take charge. If you still can... Second Chance Dramedy series – 2014 Co-production with SVT 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.

Raid The Stars Will Tell, Classic crime drama series – 2000 Inspector Palmu Director Tapio Piirainen Production Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting Company Classic feature film – 1962 Duration 12 x 38 – 46 min SD Director Matti Kassila Available: Worldwide TV, VOD Production Fennada-Filmi SD, B/W Larger Than Life Eight Deadly Shots A POLICE OFFICER who has been investigating white-collar Duration 100 min Drama series – 2012 Classic mini series – 1972 crimes is shot dead in a TV studio. Another policeman Available: Worldwide TV, VOD Director Matti Kinnunen Director Mikko Niskanen takes his own life at his summer home. A young woman, Production Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting Company Production Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting Company an executive with a powerful electronics concern, also INSPECTOR PALMU INVESTIGATES the murder of an avid Duration 6 x 50 min, HD Available: Worldwide TV Duration 4 x 72 – 85 min SD, B/W commits suicide. Her embittered father suspects foul astrologist and philatelist. Turns out that his home has Available: Worldwide TV, VOD play and he invites Raid, the woman’s former boyfriend to been burgled, and a large amount of money is missing. ANSSI MÄKI, A TALENTED YOUNG BANKER, predicts the fall of ”make inquiries”. The telescope in the victim’s apartment has been aimed the American banks, and gets fired because of his pessimism. EIGHT FATAL SHOTS pictures life on a small farm in Central to a certain window in the city, and this clue leads He decides to take revenge on the banking world. The revenge Finland. The small-farmer and his family cannot make a inspector Palmu to the right track. jeopardizes the love of his life. This drama series is set in the living on their cow and plot of land. But there is no work, year 2007-2008, the time of the banking crisis. except moonshining. How long can a person last in hopeless The characters are deepened by the Chekhov novel that the circumstances? Eight Fatal Shots emphasizes the individual’s script is based upon. helplessness in an unjust society. 4 Co-production with RUV 5 DRAMA THREE TV-MOVIES BY MATTI IJÄS THREE TV-MOVIES BY TAPIO PIIRAINEN DRAMA

Left And Right The Everlast - a backstage comedy TV-movie - 2015 TV-movie - 2015 - Director Matti Ijäs Director Tapio Piirainen Production Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting Company Production Yle, the Finnish Duration 63 min, HD Broadcasting Company Available: Worldwide TV Duration 67 min, HD Available: Worldwide TV, VOD LONG AGO THE BAND WAS A BIG NAME. Today, The Everlast plays at weddings. The guys are past 40, but still dreaming of the big break. SOMETIMES THE NEED TO TALK is greater Could charming vocalist SIMONE be their key to success? than the need to be in the right, and This smooth and smart backstage comedy takes place during one alone. long summer day. The Everlast is a society in small scale. No one Left And Right is a tv-movie about two manages alone, but is “solidarity” turning into an empty word, a real-life Finnish politicians from the mantle under which we only stifle our selfish aspirations? opposite sides of the political field, Esko Seppänen from the left and Iiro Viinanen from the right. But they have a common enemy, one Mr. Parkinson, an incurable disease, which unites these two men into a life-long friendship.

Red Ribbon

TV-movie- 2012 Director Tapio Piirainen Middle Of The Road Production Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting Company Duration 75 min, HD TV-movie - 2013 - Director Matti Ijäs Available: Worldwide TV Production Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting Company Duration 85 min HD, M/E MARTTI TURUNEN IS IN HIS FIFTIES and has never made Available: Worldwide TV, VOD love. But the longing has become too much to bear. Suddenly his grey life becomes colorful when a woman AN ASPHALT CONTRACTOR, who has sacrificed his with a red ribbon in her hair crosses him in the corridor at life to make a profit, finds himself in a financial work. Unfortunately, Helena, the woman with a red ribbon dead-end. The ever gentle-minded road engineer in her hair, is not an ordinary woman. And the stars of Rauno Kannisto is hired to the construction site, to romance don’t seem to line up for him. But the feelings build a road that cuts through the vast forests by are genuine, and the warmth of another person flickers in the Russian border. Soon, Rauno finds himself in a the life of a lonely man. situation where he doesn’t know which way to turn. A romantic comedy about a bachelor’s last chance. 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 Snowflake Formation Venla Awards 2013. - a workplace tragicomedy Almost There TV-movie - 2012 Director Tapio Piirainen TV-movie - 2003 - Director Matti Ijäs Production Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting Company Production Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting Company Duration 55 min, HD Duration 71 min SD Available: Worldwide TV, VOD Available: Worldwide TV SNOWFLAKE FORMATION IS A TRAGICOMEDY about a ALMOST THERE IS SET IN NORTHERN FINLAND, in the remotest modern workplace. corners of Lapland. It is a gripping story of Kauko, who is What happens, when the company is being so physically a man but mentally a child, and his quest to find the streamlined, that streamlining is the only function left? woman of his dreams. ”Three people have cried, two have raged and one Kauko’s journey is long and tricky. The sincere boy runs into con just doesn’t fucking understand”. And the day in an men and perverts before he accepts his fate and returns home idyllic retreat, meant for recuperation for the unwell work to his brother. community, is only half way down. Golden Chest Grand Prix, Things only get worse during the day, and in the Bulgaria, 2004. evening, the police is knocking at the door.

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Whatever WHATEVER TELLS ABOUT FRIENDSHIP between two seemingly opposites, a boy confined in an elite school and an abandoned Drama – 2014 girl. Kasper, 12, is the star pupil of an nationally recognized elite Director Jarmo Lampela school and spends his days in training and evenings on stage. Production Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting Ida, 13, has been taken into care and lives in a foster family. She’s Company anxious and rebellious, not used to getting anything for free. Duration 6 x 28 min Whatever is an action-packed adventure series, dealing with in- HD, M/E depth themes, such as the acceptance of diversity, forgiveness and Available: Worldwide TV, VOD the price of success. It is a series for children from seven years up, as well as for wider audiences.

Rescuing Santa RESCUING SANTA is a six-episode family holiday musical. Drama Series, Scripted Format and It’s a timeless story filled with hope, friendship and courage. Santa has Turnkey Production all in one disappeared and four children, invited as special guests to Christmas 2014 Wonderland, might be the only hope of saving Christmas! 6 x 28 min Created by Aito Media, Small World IFT and Yle. Produced by Aito HD, M/E Media and Yle. Finished programme distributed by Yle Sales. Format Available: Worldwide TV distributed by Small World IFT.

My Friend The Horse The Adventures Of Reetta And Ronja Infotainment series for children - 2013 #lovemilla Production Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting Company Drama series for children – 2009 Duration 14 x 5 min SD Director Hanna Bergholm #LOVEMILLA IS A CONTENT SERIES FOR TEENAGERS, where cross media Multiplatform Dramedy – 2013 – 2014 Production Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting Company is thought from the side of audience, not from broadcaster’s Available: Worldwide TV, VOD Director Teemu Nikki Duration 10 x 10 min, HD, M/E perspective. It tells a story of 17-year old Milla and her friends, who Production It’s Alive Productions Available: Worldwide TV, VOD Duration 72 x 3-6 min or spend their days in a cafeteria of an unnamed small town – a very A HORSE IS A FRIEND and a companion. But how can familiar setting for the target audience in Finland. The story is told a person learn how to understand a horse? In this Seasons 1 and 2: 105 min, REETTA, 8 AND RONJA, 6 are two sisters who fill their days through content pieces that are scattered along social media and series we meet many people dedicated to them, from Season 3: 3x28 min with plays, little adventures, and exciting events. The TV. HD horse whisperers to vets and jockeys. contemplative, resourceful Reetta and the brave, energetic Winner of the EUROVISION Creative Fiction Formats in 2014 M/E And naturally, horses, horses, horses. And ponies. Ronja always know how to brighten up a boring day. Available: Worldwide TV, VOD Wonderful things can happen when you start playing. 8 9 KIDS & YOUTH KIDS & YOUTH

Albi Doghill Animation – 2004/2007 Mauri Kunnas’ beloved ‘Doghill’ The Snowman Script Mauri Kunnas books have taught the children Animation Mikko Kunnas of today of the life in 19th Production Yle, the Finnish century rural Scandinavia with Broadcasting Company a warmhearted touch for over Duration 13 x 5 min twenty years now. We can join the SD main character, Kille, and follow M/E the goings-on at Doghill house in Age group pre-schoolers an animated television series. Available: Worldwide TV, VOD

Santa Claus And The Magic Drum Animation – 1996 Christmas preparations are Created by Mauri Kunnas well on the way, but all is not Production Yle, the Finnish okay. Who put pepper in the Broadcasting Company ginger snaps? Who put out the Duration 50 min Northern Lights? Why does a HD virus mess up Santa’s computer, M/E just when he is about to solve a Available: Worldwide TV, VOD tricky Christmas mystery? Who is ALBI IS A JOVIAL SNOWMAN, who lives in the land of eternal snow, teasing Santa and why? Children’s animation - 2014 together with a little birdie and a worm. These two have made Created by Mikko Kunnas, Markus Majaluoma a nest into the empty can of tomato soup, which Albi wears Production Hima Light Ltd. as a hat. To Albi, home is where the snow is, but the lack of Mr Clay And His Magic Hat Duration 13 x 5 min furniture gives the place a not-so-homely feel. Albi has a stroke Non-verbal, HD of genius, and he starts to build an armchair out of snow. The Animation – 2006 Mr Clay, the magician, Available: Worldwide TV, VOD idea flourishes and soon he has a cozy home. Script and animation | Tuula conjures colours and shapes out Production Yle, the Finnish of his hat. He also makes the Broadcasting Company wish of his friend, the bunny, Duration 10 x 6 min come true by modelling him the Age group pre-schoolers animal figure he wishes to see. No dialogue Co-production SVT, NRK DR SD Available: Worldwide TV, VOD

Viivi And Leevi Animation – 1998, 2000, 2003 Leevi is keen to bake, paint, Script and animation Tuula Pukkila and try his hand at almost Production Yle, the Finnish anything. But whenever he does, Broadcasting Company he always winds up in trouble, Duration 19 x 4 min and the only way out is to call for Age group pre-schoolers the help of his big sister Viivi. No dialogue Co-production NRK, RUV, SVT SD Available: Worldwide TV, VOD Dibidogs Pipalina Pipalina is a brave and kind- 3D Animation – 2013 hearted mouse living in an exciting Director Tommy Wang Animation – 2005 and colorful world. She is a very Artwork Children around the world, Animation Bettina Björnberg- lucky mouse, firstly, because she Blue Arc Ltd., Futurecode Ltd. has are not of the noisy or violent age pups Adi and Jessica and Aminoff Production Futurecode Ltd, Blue Arc kind. They are filled with humour, a their friends. And what are those Script Gunilla Hemming Ltd Welcome to Bone City! great appetite for life and enormous mysterious Shadows up to? A Production Yle, The Finnish Duration 26 x 23 min Dibidogs sweeps us into the curiosity. surprising event on this planet Broadcasting Company SD enchanting planet of the These small animated films in outer space kicks off the first Duration 7 x 5 – 6 min M/E Dibidogs, home to more or less are aimed at an audience just like Dibidogs adventure. There’s No dialogue Ages 4-10 regular dogs and a royal family. Pipalina herself - curious, brave and plenty of action, twists in the SD Available: Worldwide TV, VOD The main characters are school- Available: Worldwide TV kind-hearted, that is: children from plot and chuckles along the way. age 2 and up!

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CELEBRATING THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY OF JEAN SIBELIUS

Seven Symphonies By Sibelius

2015 Directors Laura Joutsi and Hannu Kamppila Production Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting Company Documentaries and symphonies: 7 x 60 min Documentary: 1 x 50 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, samples of symphonies and an introduction, filmed in e.g. Berlin, Stockholm and Vienna, all ending with the live recording of the JEAN SIBELIUS COMPOSED seven symphonies. His symphony in question. Sort Of Sibelius! struggle with the eighth symphony lasted for All the symphonies are performed by the Finnish Radio Symphony years and ended with burning the scores. Orchestra, conducted by Hannu Lintu, in the new Helsinki Music Short films - 2015 It´s time to demolish the myth of Jean Si- Centre. Director Piia Hirvensalo belius. These stories are about Sibelius, not Production Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting Company about his music. The commentator is one of Duration: 8 x 10 min the most famous Finnish composers of our HD time: Kaija Saariaho. Each short story uses in M/E its expression codes of different film genres. Available: Worldwide TV, VOD Animation replenishes the narration.

Sir Colin In The World Of Sibelius Music Documentary – 2006 Director Jukka Konttori Production Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting Company Duration 57 min SD Available: Worldwide TV

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 The documentary sections of the programs, hosted and narrated by Hannu Lintu, the conductor of the Tapio Räihälä stopped to ponder over what Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, can also been seen in an hour-long separate program. kind of man Sibelius was and why his music is still appealing and meaningful today.

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Inside Quartet Lab – Birth Of A Quartet Noste - An Underwater Dance

Documentary - 2013 Four brilliant musicians week-long residency – will Short film - 2014 Director Elina Heiskanen searching for each other and the outcome be their first or Director Marko Röhr Production Yle, the Finnish for music, over seven intensive their last concert? Production MRP Matila Röhr Productions Broadcasting Company days. Pekka Kuusisto & Duration 4 min Duration 58 min Patricia Kopatchinskaja, violin, HD HD Lilli Maijala, viola and Pieter DCP 2k M/E Wispelwey, cello, are conducting Available: Worldwide TV, VOD Available: Worldwide TV, VOD a unique experiment during a THE DANCE-THEMED SHORT FILM Noste is an aesthetic journey to the world of underwater dance. The dancing, the impressive underwater environments and the touching music will create an ethereal and thought provoking visual work together. Noste is a short film by dancer-choreographer Etel Röhr.

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 Quartet Lab: In Concert Concert - 2013 Concert - 2013 After seven days of fierce Director Rami Lindholm Director Elina Heiskanen rehearsals the music is there: Production Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting Company Production Yle, the Finnish W. A. Mozart: Divertimento Duration 72 min Broadcasting Company in D Major, Benjamin Britten: HD Duration 55 min String Quartet No. 2, George Available: Worldwide TV, VOD HD Crumb: Black Angels. With M/E Pekka Kuusisto & Patricia The Finnish modern folk music group Värttinä performs Available: Worldwide TV, VOD Kopatchinskaja, violin; Lilli many of their highly popular songs in this tv-production, to Maijala, viola and Pieter celebrate their 30-year-old career. Wispelwey, cello.

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THE CIVIL WAR IN SYRIA Syria - Faces Of War 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 Documentary - 2014 to Aleppo and other Directors Vesa Toijonen and areas in Syria with Ari Lehikoinen his camera, in order Production Yle, the Finnish to give the war a real Broadcasting Company face – of brutality, Duration 55 min pain and tears. HD Prix Europa Winner of M/E Best European Current Available: Worldwide TV, VOD Affair Program 2014

Documentary – 2013 Kurdistan - Director Vesa Toijonen Production Yle, the Finnish Bridge Over Troubled Water Broadcasting Company A Frozen War Duration 55 min Documentary - 2015 HAS THE WAR IN UKRAINE frozen SD Director Vesa Toijonen for the winter, or forever? In M/E Production Yle, the Finnish Nagorno-Karabakh, the war Available: Worldwide TV, VOD Broadcasting Company between the Azerbaijani and the HD Armenians has been frozen solid IN THE SOUTH-EASTERN PART OF TURKEY the Turkish army and the Available: Worldwide TV, VOD for 20 years. Every year the war , Kurdish partisans have been in war claims new victims. for 30 years. 50 000 dead, hundreds of villages burnt to the ground, over a million refugees. Now, suddenly, peace is closer than ever.

Ukraine In Pieces Documentary -2014 Trapped Between Syria Director Pertti Pesonen Documentary - 2014 Production Yle, the Finnish Production Yle, the Finnish And Europe Broadcasting Company Broadcasting Company Duration 50 min Duration 28 min HD HD Available: Worldwide TV, VOD Available: Worldwide TV SYRIAN REFUGEES on the Bulgarian refugee camps say, TOWNS, NEIGHBOR RELATIONS, THE FUTURE – all in pieces. Has the war broken Ukraine that they never wanted to leave their homes. But they do permanently? Ukraine In Pieces is an not want to stay in Bulgaria eyewitness story, shot in September 2014 either – unfortunately, the EU in Ukraine, during a theoretical ceasefire. regulations regarding refuge It does not offer any solutions, it shows prevent them from going how people live in the middle of the war. forward. Can the people ever forgive?

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Documentary - 2014 Director Marja Kurikka Production Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting Company Duration 55 min, HD Available: Worldwide TV, VOD

FOR PINJA, SUBSTANCE ABUSE has been a way to connect with her mother. What will be the new base for their lives, when they both Drug Diaries struggle to get clean?

Documentary - 2014 Director Hannele Valkeeniemi Production Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting Company 2014 Duration 28 min, SD Available: Worldwide TV, VOD

”EVEN IF ONLY ONE BABY GETS SAVED, the hatch has been a success.” Baby hatches, a hatch in the wall where you can leave your newborn, but for Return Of The some reason unwanted baby, were first intro- World’s Strongest Victim duced in the middle ages. So why have they now returned to the most affluent parts of Europe? Documentary - 2014 Baby Hatches Director Pertti Pesonen Production Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting Company Duration 50 min, HD Documentary – 2012 Available: Worldwide TV, VOD Director Ari Lehikoinen Arvo Production Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting Co. ISRAEL KILLED 2140 PEOPLE in the war in Gaza, most of them civilians, women and children. Those who have spoken Duration 46 min, HD out about the civilian victims in Israel, have become the target of abuse and attacks. The growing nationalism Available: Worldwide TV, VOD and fanaticism are a real threat to the state of Israel, and its existence. This is the opinion of professor Avraham ARVO IS A 12-YEAR-OLD BOY with a heart disease. Burg, the former speaker of the parliament. He thinks that Israel should step into the present time, and see that His mother has had to fight to get his son it is no longer the victim. treated, in order to keep him alive. The boy has survived various difficult operations, and he dreams of some day becoming a doctor of One Man Peace physics. This documentary forces you to think of the value of human life, who in this world is Documentary – 2012 worth treatment and care? Best Documentary , Director Kati Juurus Kultainen Venla TV Awards 2012 Production Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting Company Duration 59 min Documentary – 2014 HD Angel With A Broken Wing Director Erkki Määttänen M/E Production Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting Available: Worldwide TV, VOD Company Duration 59 min, HD, M/E Abdullahi Farah is a Somali-born cornershopkeeper Available: Worldwide TV, VOD from Espoo, Finland. His unlikely mission is to bring peace to his former home country. Because of his past A fascinating story of a beautiful girl, in Somalia, he knows ministers as well as leaders in the whose dreams of becoming a model and an most important insurgencies, such as Hizbul Islam or actress are cut short when she is diagnosed Al Shabaab. with scoliosis. During her life, she not only goes Because of his contacts, Mr. Farah becomes a through difficult surgery, but also marries her vital middleman between UN diplomats and Somali dream man, a successful German businessman, insurgents, many listed as terrorists. raises a family in , to finally return to Finland and start a new career as an artist and a songwriter. 18 19 DOCUMENTARY ENVIRONMENT DOCUMENTARY ENVIRONMENT

Emissionary Men Documentary – 2014 as expected. The documentary Cruel Palm Oil Director Kati Juurus is a tragicomic story of how we Production Yle, the Finnish are trying to save the world by Broadcasting Company shifting the emissions from one Duration 56 min place to another. It’s like we’ve HD forgotten that we should also M/E cut down, not just buy and sell. Available: Worldwide TV The story begins in Kenya, where two businessmen, a Finnish the purpose of emissions and an American, are trying to trade is to cut down carbon make business out of emissions dioxide emissions, and direct trade. As the carbon market the industries to invest in collapses, the shock waves are low-carbon production. The felt everywhere: in Finland, in outcome, however, has not been Brussels as well as in Kenya.

A Sunny Experiment Documentary - 2014 Director Simo Sipola Production Yle, the Finnish Documentary - 2014 Broadcasting Company Director Ari Lehikoinen Duration 50 min Production Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting Company HD Duration 53 min, HD Available: EU/ETA TV Available: EU/ETA TV A GROUP OF FINNISH SCHOOL CHILDREN travel THE FINNISH COMPANY NESTE OIL is one of the biggest manu- to Ethiopia to present their school pro- facturers of bio fuel, and therefore also one of the biggest ject, an experiment they have carried out buyers of palm oil. What is the company’s responsibility, when successfully. They have built a solar cooker it comes to the subcontractors in Southeast Asia, that often out of wood, tinfoil and glass, and now cut down the rain forests and use child labor? The company they want to teach the local school kids assures that it only buys palm oil that has been harvested how to make this ecological stove. See responsibly, but many of the palm tree farmers disagree. what happens, when the two very different cultures meet.

The Congo Of The Arctic Circle

Documentary – 2013 from the natural resources. Director Ari Lehikoinen “I do not understand why A 100 000 Year’s Problem Production Yle, the Finnish the Finns don’t charge royalties Documentary – 2011 to bury 250 000 tons deadly Broadcasting Company or tax the foreign mining Directors Ari Lehikoinen, Vesa poisonous spent nuclear fuel? Duration 53 min companies. That is the way the Toijonen Scientists in Finland and HD developing countries treat them”, Production Yle, the Finnish believe they have the solution: M/E says Andreas Missbach, a mining Broadcasting Company to store spent fuel and other Available: Worldwide TV, VOD industry taxation specialist from Duration 56 min nuclear waste deep down into the Swiss Berne Declaration HD Northern granite. Could it be a in finland, foreign mining organization. M/E solution for the whole European companies receive generous Lapland is gradually turning Available: Worldwide TV, VOD nuclear industry – to store their subsidies from the government, into a reservation for the nuclear waste in Finnish or but in return they pay minimal exploitation of natural resources, the World is full of problems, Swedish ground? fees for the profi t they make the Congo of the Arctic Circle. but only one problem requires a Co-produCtion: ArtE solution for 100 000 years: where

20 21 DOCUMENTARY HUMAN INTEREST DOCUMENTARY HUMAN INTEREST Women On The Border Sofi Oksanen – Born to Write Documentary - 2015 Director Kati Juurus Documentary – 2013 The most successful current Production Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting Director Marko Gustafsson Finnish author began her career Company Production Yle, the Finnish writing a diary as a six-year- Duration 57 min Broadcasting Company old. This documentary takes us, HD, M/E Duration 58 min along with Sofi, to the Paris Book Available: Worldwide TV, VOD HD Fair, the opening night of her M/E play in London, her childhood WOMEN ON THE BORDER takes you to the Available: Worldwide TV, VOD surroundings in , and small villages on the Finnish-Russian the former KGB headquarters in border. Local women have left the Tallinn. communities and moved to bigger cities. They have been replaced by wives from . Two Irinas, Margareta and Svetlana came to Finland, because they wanted to change the course of their lives. Soul Food They came to seek for a better future Documentary – 2013 for themselves and their children – Director Tonislav Hristov through marrying a Finn. What kind of Production Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting Company choices did they have to make? What Duration 55 min kind of sacrifices? HD Women on the Border views the world M/E – and men – from the perspective of Available: Worldwide TV the Russian migrant women. It is a film In Soul Food we follow the Finnish family Luotola about borderlands, perseverance and on their journey to the Bulgarian countryside, love. 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 Documentary - 2014 possesses, the power to bring people together, not Karen And Grigori Director Arvo Tuominen only for the purpose of eating, but for the purpose Production Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting of feeding your soul. Company Duration 52 min HD Available: EU/ETA TV, VOD

The Truth about Sauna Documentary – 2008 the heat and nakedness may be Director Nina Stenros and Anu Valve too much for the inexperienced. Production Yle, the Finnish That is why they have to be told Broadcasting Company the truth about the sauna. This Duration 53 min documentary gives any non-Finn SD instructions on how to manage Available: Worldwide TV a hot sauna in an honorable (Finnish) way. How the benches A ROMANTIC DOCUMENTARY which portrays the warm relationship between a CIA agent and a KGB officer The Finnish sauna is the are to sit on, the stones in the stationed in Helsinki in the 50’s and the 60’s, when the closeness of the Soviet Union and the need for hottest place in the world stove are meant to be hot and intelligence made Helsinki the hot spot of the Cold War. where people go voluntarily. water is to be thrown on them. The couple, a Fullbright scholar and CIA operative Karen Erickson and the KGB officer Grigori Golub, who For beginners a true and And that you may get out of had an under-cover post as the Soviet consul, meet half a century later and they immediately find a original Finnish sauna may be the sauna when you feel like common language. a challenging experience. The doing so. mixture of fire, wood, aromas, Co-production ARTE

22 23 DOCUMENTARY HUMAN INTEREST FACTUAL ENTERTAINMENT DOCUMENTARY HUMAN INTEREST Spanish Nurses

Production Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting Company 2014 Duration 58 min HD Available: Worldwide TV

Spain suffers from a severe unemployment situation, and Fin- land has a shortage of skilled nurses. This sounds like a match made in heaven. What is the reality, when two young Spanish nurses, Itziar and Celia, arrive in the snowy town of in the eastern part of Finland. Will the job possibility be enough after they settle into the drudgery of everyday life?

The Road To Silverstone Documentary – 2013 Director Johan Eriksson Production UNWRA/Johan Eriksson Duration 58 min SD The Norden Available: Worldwide TV, VOD Factual entertainment – 2014 Production Yle, the Finnish Students of engineering are building a Broadcasting Company formula race car in the Gaza Strip. Their goal Duration 6 x 28 min is to take part in the Formula Student race HD in Silverstone, not a mission for the faint- M/E hearted. The voyage to England is dramatic, Available: Worldwide TV, VOD and the thought of meeting the fellow racers is thrilling. What happens when an experienced warden from Attica State Prison, New York, visits the almost luxurious Norwegian prison Free Miles Halden? How does a pastor from a congregation in Alabama feel Documentary – 2013 when he’s almost alone in the Episode 1 Prison Director Ken Saan church during a Sunday service in episode 2 Work Production Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting Company Copenhagen? In the series we look episode 3 religion Duration 46 min at the Nordic welfare model from episode 4 gender HD, M/E an outsider’s perspective. episode 5 family Available: Worldwide TV, VOD Co-production with DR, NRK, episode 6 police RUV, SVT 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 Me and My Mom constant traveling also a way to escape your own Reality series – 2012 self? is in some way significant in Director Anna-Kaisa Brenner, Raili their common history. A car was Löyttyniemi chosen as the filming location Production Yle Finnish Broadcasting because it enables intimate The Balloon Swallower Company conversation. Documentary – 2012 Duration 8 x 28 min The great majority, some 95% of Director Juha Portaankorva SD the conversations take place in Production Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting Company Available: Worldwide TV, VOD the car. Duration 29 min The program concept was SD A mother and daughter developed in co-operation with M/E drive together to a place that DR and IKON, Netherlands 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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Frontier Life Nature documentary – 2013 deepest social divide in which Enclosed By Water Director Petteri Saario Nature documentary – 2009 Production DocArt Ky Director Petteri Saario the expected lifespan of men on Duration 6 x 29 min Production DocArt Ky one side of the border can be a HD Duration 6 x 28 min quarter less than those on the M/E HD other side. Available: WorldwideTV, VOD M/E A documentarian needs Available: Worldwide TV, VOD stories and Russian is full Life on an , enclosed of them. Life is in many ways by water, requires ingenuity and The adventure begins beyond more varied and colourful than all sorts of skills. The northern the border. in the dull, combed back and four seasons bring their own The border between Finland pressed west. The adventure challenges, such as the frost and Russia is a border between begins beyond the border. heave and the harsh stormy a small country and the largest Grand Prix, Matsalu International winter. country in the world. It is a Nature Film Festival 2010, Estonia In Finland there are about language frontier, a cultural Best film in the Baltic Region, 179 000 , manifold the borderline and a religious divide. Green Vision Festival 2011, St. amount of the famous Greek Today it is perhaps the world’s Petersburg islands. The northern archipelago and its nature is harsh but breathtakingly beautiful, and the island inhabitants are as tough as the junipers fighting The Finest Rivers Of Finland against the wind on the Nature documentary – 2006 outmost islets. The river currents carry them Director Petteri Saario from the magnificent fells of Production DocArt Ky Lapland to the rugged wilderness Duration 6 x 29 min country between Finland and HD Russia, from crystal clear source M/E streams on to bird paradise river Available: Worldwide TV, VOD deltas and picturesque villages along the river banks. With his 11-year-old son 1st Prize in Category “Man and Antti, the TV documentarian Nature”. Matsalu Wildlife Film Petteri Saario sets out to film Festival 2005, Estonia the gems of the Finnish rivers. Nature documentary – 2012 Director Petteri Saario Lakes Of Finland Production DocArt Ky Duration 6 x 28 min HD The Pearls Of The Baltic Sea M/E Available: Worldwide TV, VOD Nature documentary – 2004 Kotlin, Åland, , , Director Petteri Saario and Hailuoto – the If Finns were asked, what best Production DocArt Ky Pearls of the Baltic Sea are symbolizes their home country, the Duration 6 x 45 min or 1 x 59 min rediscovered. At the same time it answer would most likely be the holy SD is a strong expression of opinion triangle: sauna, birch – and lake. A M/E for the survival of the nature lake, if any, is the symbol of Finland. Available: Worldwide TV, VOD of our home sea and also the Six Finnish lakes portray history, people’s habits, the culture of the culture, landscape and nature, politics The Pearls of the Baltic archipelago. and beliefs. Suitable for the whole Sea is a story about a sailing family, these documentaries are a trip, during which the islands 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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Children Of The Forest

Documentary - 2015 Director Natalie Halla Production Creative Movies Duration 75 min, HD Available: Worldwide TV, VOD

IN CHILDREN OF THE FOREST six-year-old Andreas recounts his unusual and fascinating childhood in an Austrian forest-Kindergarten. The idyllic experience is darkened by the gradual destruction of their forest. Contact:

Maria Kivinen Sales Executive Landlocked Seals IN PRODUCTION Documentary - 2016 [email protected] Director Juha Taskinen +358 40 544 2404 Production Norppa Taskinen Ky Duration 55 min, HD, M/E Jonna Kälviä Available: Worldwide TV, VOD Sales Executive [email protected] A unique documentary presenting the world’s +358 50 535 0785 freshwater seals, found only in Alaska, Canada, Finland and Russia. We take a look at different freshwater Katriina Mattila seals, through their ecology and habitat. We visit the Content Specialist lakes and meet native people, fishermen, hunters [email protected] and seal researchers, and dive among the seals, using +358 40 733 7066 impressive underwater cinematography. The project received the WWF Panda Award 2012 Tuija Snellman Head of Sales [email protected] Crane Whisperer +358 40 830 7022

Documentary - 2012 [email protected] Director Riikka Poulsen Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting Company Production Spiraling Ltd. Radiokatu 5, Helsinki Duration 28 min, HD Box 97 Available: Worldwide TV, VOD 00024 Yleisradio, Finland

Jouko Alhainen is a nature activist and an Trailers: internationally renowned researcher of cranes. He has www.yle.fi/sales ringed hundreds of them, and he runs a hospice for injured or orphaned birds at his home. He also dances Photos: like a crane, with the cranes. Yle Photo Service & Production Companies Stories From A Bear’s Lair Cover photo: Tellus Documentary - 2011 Director Mika Hotakainen Production Oktober Ltd. Duration 28 min, HD Available: Worldwide TV, VOD yle.fi/sales

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 documentary tells a unique story of a friendship between a man and these beasts.

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