MAKING MOVIES TURNS 30 – 30 YEARS OF INTERNATIONAL FILMMAKING

The company’s productions include Black Ice (Musta jää, 2007), The Fencer (Miekkailija, 2015) and Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Look of Silence (2014). The Fencer was nominated for a Golden Globe and The Look of Silence for an Academy Award, while Making Movies’ films have screened at major festivals including Berlin, Toronto, Venice and Sundance.

International co-production has been at the heart of Making Movies from the beginning, enabling the company to build ambitious projects with partners across Europe and beyond.

“A production company’s international success is the result of long-term work. At the heart of our films is always an essential observation about life that audiences can recognize regardless of their cultural background,” says CEO Kai Nordberg.

Now Making Movies is taking its storytelling beyond film. The company is developing games based on its own productions and exploring how the stories, characters and worlds created for film can live on in new forms.

“A film’s IP can have a much longer life cycle than the film itself. I believe that film characters, visual worlds and storytelling can also bring something new to the games industry,” Nordberg says.

Over its three decades, Making Movies has received numerous Jussi Awards and the Nordic Council Film Prize. Most recently, the company secured European development funding for five international co-productions, while Klaus Härö’s Blue Baby (Hetki ennen valoa) will premiere in September 2026.