Once Upon a Time in a Forest
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Cinematic film about radical young people who are defending one of the last coniferous forest areas in Europe. It is also an unusual love story of a younger generation whose object of love is the Finnish forest.
The three main protagonists come face to face with a deeply rooted national ideology of the forest as a foundation for the nation's economic well-being.
The documentary follows the charismatic young environmentalists for over a year as they take part in the new dynamic Forest Movement.
DIRECTOR: Virpi Suutari
SCRIPTWRITER: Virpi Suutari
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Teemu Liakka F.S.C.
SOUND: Pirkko Tiitinen
EDITING: Jussi Rautaniemi F.C.E.
MUSIC: Sanna Salmenkallio
PRODUCER: Virpi Suutari
PRODUCTION COMPANY: Euphoria Film
SALES: Autlook
Director
Virpi Suutari
Virpi Suutari is an acclaimed director and producer known for films such as Once Upon a Time in a Forest (CPH:DOX 2024 premiere, IDFA Signed program), AALTO (2020), Entrepreneur (2018, IDFA Masters), and Garden Lovers (Visions du Réel 2014). Her work has earned four Finnish National Film Awards and three Best Nordic Documentary Awards at Nordisk Panorama. She was also nominated for the EFA Best European Documentary for The Idle Ones (2001). In 2025, Suutari received the Apollo Lifetime Achievement Award at the Helsinki Documentary Film Festival DocPoint.
Contact
Suvi Railo
Advisor / International Promotion and Cultural Export of Documentary Films
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