Once Upon a Time in the Forest

Virpi Suutari

Documentary,

93'

2025

Tickets

07/04

Mon.

19:00

Calàbria 66, BCN

Synopsis

Once Upon a Time in the Forest unfolds as a modern fairy tale in the enchanting embrace of the Finnish forest. We witness young people seamlessly woven into the fabric of nature, swimming in crystalline lakes and reveling in the calm presence of the ancient trees.

Environmentalism and Sustainability

Festivals

– Audience Award at Dok Leipzig 2024, Germany
– CPH:DOX 2025, Denmark
– Visions du Réel 2024, Switzerland
– Hot Docs 2024, Canada
– Chicago IFF 2024, USA

Festivals

– Audience Award at Dok Leipzig 2024, Germany
– CPH:DOX 2025, Denmark
– Visions du Réel 2024, Switzerland
– Hot Docs 2024, Canada
– Chicago IFF 2024, USA

Environmentalism and Sustainability

Credits

Original title

Once Upon a Time in a Forest

Genre

Documentary

Director

Virpi Suutari

Country

Finland

Year

2024

Runtime

93'

Production

Euphoria Film

Idioma

Finnish, English

Subtitles

Catalan

Virpi Suutari

Filmography

– The Idle Ones (2001)
– Aalto (2020)

Virpi Suutari, born in 1967, is an award-winning filmmaker known for her personal cinematic style challenging the boundaries between fact and fiction. Her films have been shown in the major festivals such as IDFA, Locarno, Leipzig, Vision du Réel and Gothenburg Film festival. She has won several awards as the Best Nordic Documentary in Nordisk Panorama. Suutari has received the Finnish national Academy Award, the Jussi-Award, three times. She is also the member of the European Film Academy. The previous feature documentary she directed and produced about architect Alvar Aalto (AALTO, 2020) received world-wide distribution.

Filmography

– The Idle Ones (2001)
– Aalto (2020)

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