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A People’s Radio – Ballads from a Wooded Country

Kansanradio – Runonlaulajien maa
Virpi Suutari
Finland
2021
27 min
Dutch Premiere
Festival history

What fires the soul of a Finn? An array of scenes of summery Finnish landscapes, in the city as well as the countryside, accompanies messages from listeners to the popular radio program Kansanradio, meaning “People’s radio.” They speak their minds, to no one in particular, on a broad spectrum of subjects, ranging from a plan to stop using shampoo to airing political views, and from the grief over a lost partner to struggles with religious faith and rage about a neighbor’s noisy drilling.

Alongside the rural beauty familiar to tourists—of midsummer-night lakes, cabins, and birch forests—we also see scenes of a more everyday Finnish reality. They, too, have their rained-out amusement parks and drab housing projects, although here you’re a lot more likely to see a reindeer ambling through the shot. These images combine with the amusing, melancholic, and sometimes defiant radio voices to form a quiet declaration of love to Finland and its inhabitants.

Credits
Director
Production
    Virpi Suutari,
    Martti Suosalo for Euphoria Film Oy
Cinematography
Editing
    Teresa Sadik-Ogli
    Teresa Sadik-Ogli
Sound Design
    Tuomas Skopa
    Tuomas Skopa
Music
    Iiro Rantala
    Iiro Rantala
World Sales
    Euphoria Film Oy
    Euphoria Film Oy
Screening copy
    The Finnish Film Foundation
    The Finnish Film Foundation

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