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803 articles available in total starting from 29/05/2002. Last article published on 30/10/2025.

Karoliina Dwyer • Sales agent, The Yellow Affair

Interview: Karoliina Dwyer • Sales agent, The Yellow Affair

“I feel like we need to get on board and start working on the strategy earlier so that we can help bring the information from the market to the films”

During our conversation, we spoke about how the Scandinavian-owned sales outfit is managing its film and TV businesses, and how its work has changed over the last two years  

10/01/2023 | /Finland/UK/USA

J-P Valkeapää • Director of Hit Big

Interview: J-P Valkeapää • Director of Hit Big

"While writing this script during lockdown, in this atmosphere where you were scared of dying, I realised that this film was about the end of the world"

We met up with the Finnish director and talked about his inspirations when writing and creating his new film  

24/11/2022 | Black Nights 2022 | Competition

Mika Kaurismäki • Director of The Grump: In Search of an Escort

Interview: Mika Kaurismäki • Director of The Grump: In Search of an Escort

“I like tragicomedies where something that you look at closely may seem very sad, and when you look from farther away, it can be very funny”

The Finnish director told us how he proceeded when adapting the story of a grumpy old man with a passion for old cars  

24/11/2022 | /Finland

Review: Sisu

Review: Sisu

Finnish director Jalmari Helander offers an alternate reality in his new project, awarded with the main prize at Sitges, creating a film as enthralling as it is bizarre  

25/10/2022 | Sitges 2022

Samppa Batal, Tuomas Kohtamäki • Director and producer of Timeman

Interview: Samppa Batal, Tuomas Kohtamäki • Director and producer of Timeman

“You are not sure if you are allowed to laugh”

Time travel’s a bitch in this melancholic Finnish production, named Best Film in the Warsaw Film Festival’s Free Spirit Competition  

24/10/2022 | Warsaw 2022

Twelve films receive production support from the Finnish Film Foundation

Twelve films receive production support from the Finnish Film Foundation

The institution’s board has granted a total of €3,352,500 to six fiction features and six documentaries; three of the films are international minority co-productions  

18/10/2022 | Production | Funding | Finland

Gabriela Pichler’s first TV series, Painkiller, filming in Sweden

Gabriela Pichler’s first TV series, Painkiller, filming in Sweden

The six-episode show follows a mother and daughter who try, in their own different ways, to make life better for one another but keep failing, time and again  

06/10/2022 | Production | Funding | Sweden/Finland

The Finnish Film Affair announces its award winners

The Finnish Film Affair announces its award winners

Katja Gauriloff’s Je'vida, Helena Stefáns Magneudóttir’s Natatorium and Mohamed El Aboudi’s doc The Last Chapter have been crowned as the victors at Finland’s biggest industry event  

23/09/2022 | Finnish Film Affair 2022 | Awards

Isabella Eklöf’s sophomore feature, Kalak, now in production in Copenhagen

Isabella Eklöf’s sophomore feature, Kalak, now in production in Copenhagen

The picture follows a male nurse who ends up working in Nuuk, Greenland, and who tries to connect with the local culture through sex  

21/09/2022 | Production | Funding | Denmark/Sweden/Norway/Greenland/Netherlands/Finland

Focus on Finland Docs all set to take place on the island of Lonna

Focus on Finland Docs all set to take place on the island of Lonna

The first joint export venture for key players in the Finnish audiovisual industry aims to strengthen the promotion of Finnish content on the international level  

19/09/2022 | Industry | Market | Finland

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