Salla - Selling the Silence (2011)

Selling the Silence is a creative documentary film. It witnesses the rise and fall of one family of entrepreneurs, the Kuukkanen family from Salla, Lapland, side-by-side with the current changes in the values of our society. In combining private and personal family memories with ongoing changes in the scenery, the documentary asks: How to avoid irreversible changes in the nature when earning your living? Selling the Silence is a journey to the North, past and present. Sometimes the journey can be surprising, sometimes sad, sometimes absurd in a black Finnish way. When the film asks: ”What is the price of the wilderness?”, it is also a question of identity: Who you really are? What is your real nature?

Released March 11, 2011 70 min 7+

Genres: Documentary

Keywords: imdb.disappointment, imdb.bankruptcy, imdb.periphery, imdb.local-politics, imdb.reindeer-herding, imdb.mining-industry, imdb.livelihood + 18 more, imdb.lapland-finland, imdb.rural-setting, imdb.politics, imdb.russia, imdb.economy, imdb.alpine-skiing, imdb.christmas, imdb.businessman, imdb.business, imdb.nature, imdb.winter, imdb.mining, imdb.unemployment, imdb.tourist, imdb.tourism, imdb.reindeer, imdb.santa-claus, tmdb.lapland