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Year of Production 2024

Once Upon a Time in a Forest

English title: Once Upon a Time in a Forest
Original title: Once Upon a Time in a Forest
German title: Once Upon a Time in a Forest
Finland, 2024

Director: Suutari, Virpi
Production company: Euphoria Film Oy
Age recommendation: 14 years and up
Length: 93 min.
Film genre: Documentary

Synopsis:
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.

Festivals:
IDFA Amsterdam 2024, Chicago IFF 2024, Millennium Docs Against Gravity FF Poland 2024, Hot Docs Toronto 2024, Visions du Réel Nyon 2024, Buster CFF Copenhagen 2024, Discovery CFF Dundee 2024, DOK Leipzig 2024 (awarded), Nordic Filmdays Luebeck 2024

Study guide: English

Study guide: Finnish

World sales address/es:
Autlook (AT)