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.