Documentary Screening: Once Upon a Time in a Forest

Discover this Virpi Suutari’s moving documentary, a powerful reflection on the beauty and distress of the vanishing forest nature, as part of the Night of Ideas.

The award-winning documentary Once Upon a Time in a Forest by Virpi Suutari offers a fresh and thought-provoking take on the relationship with forests and their protection. 

Its young protagonists—Ida, Minka, Otto, Ville, and Otso—are determined to save Finland’s forests. Facing them are the forest industry and a deeply rooted national ideology that sees forests as the foundation of economic prosperity. 

Are these young people heroes—or traitors—for defending lichens and vanishing willow tits?

Once Upon a Time in a Forest will be screened as part of the French Institute’s Night of Ideas. The screening will be followed by a discussion led by one of the film’s main characters, Otto Snellman.

Cinema Orion

4.6.2025

19.45-21.45

Tickets 9,50/12€

Performed in Finnish with English subtitles