Lonesome Land

Original Title: Raakkukuningas

Runtime: 100'

Expected Release: January 2027

Production Stage: Post-Production

1st Feature: No

Looking for: Sales Agents, Festivals

Synopsis:

One day, everything went to shits.
A forestry machine driver crossed a river and, without realizing, crushed thousands of highly endangered freshwater pearl mussels. A philosophical crime film with an absurd twist. Lonesome Land paints a cinematic portrait of forestry loggers and other living creatures in a remote area of eastern Finland.

Director/Producer’s Profile:

Virpi Suutari is an acclaimed director and producer in Euphoria Film. She is known for films Once Upon a Time in a Forest (CPH:DOX 2024 premiere, IDFA Signed program), AALTO (2020), Entrepreneur (2018, IDFA Masters), Garden Lovers (Visions du Réel 2014) and the short documentaries A People’s Radio – Ballads from a Wooded Country (2021, IDFA Masters) and Elegance (2016, Oberhausen short film festival).
Her work has earned four national Film Academy Awards and three Best Nordic Documentary Awards at Nordisk Panorama. Her film The Idle Ones (2001) was also nominated for Best European Documentary. In 2025, Suutari received the Lifetime Achievement Apollo Award at the Helsinki Documentary Film Festival.

Euphoria Film Oy is a production company founded in 2012 by documentary film director/producer Virpi Suutari and actor Martti Suosalo. The company produces projects that expand existing genres and have high artistic ambitions. The company and the director/producer Virpi Suutari have produced such acclaimed films as Once Upon a Time in a Forest (premiered at CPH:Dox 2024, IDFA Signed-program), AALTO ( 2020, sold worldwide) and shorts A People´s radio – Ballads from a wooded country (2021, IDFA Masters) and Elegance (2016). Recently Virpi Suutari / Euphoria Film was a minority co-producer for the film Homesick (dir. Tanja In Wol SØrensen, 2026) produced by Tambo film.