Snowline

Snowline directed by Sanni Priha.

Original title: Jäähyväiset lumelle – Lumiraja
Genre: Documentary
Duration: 30’
Script: Sanni Priha & Jarkko Kela 
Directing & Editing: Sanni Priha 
Cinematography: Sanni Priha, Mauri Lähdesmäki / Fount Films, Jaakko Ruuska
Additional Drone Images: 
Merja Paakkanen / Luontosuhde
Sound Design & Recording: Jarkko Kela
Studio Recording: Oskari Manninen
Music: Olavi Louhivuori
Mixing: Ville Katajala
3D Animation:
Pekka Veikkolainen
Information Design:
Jonatan Hildén / Koponen+Hildén
Online, Colour Grading and DCP:
Mauri Lähdesmäki
Recording Equipment: Arttu Hokkanen
Consultation:
Anna Kontu, Leena Leppänen, Pekka Niittynen, Sirpa Rasmus, Leena Valkeapää
Translation English: Verbionox
Translation Swedish: Janne Staffans
Graphic Design: Anne Virta
Supported by:
AVEK / Oskar Forstén, Mikko Peltonen
AVEK – Mediarata
Finnish Cultural Foudation
Finnish Film Foundation / Iris Olsson
Kone Foundation
University of Lapland
Thank You for The Collaboration:
Audiovisual Producers Finland APFI
Ars Bioarctica Residency / Bioart Society
Chappe / Pia Hovi
University of Helsinki, Kilpisjärvi Biological Station
Finnish Meteorological Institute, Arctic Space Center
Finnish Environmental Institute
Filmed: 100 %
Forums & Markets: Doc Lisboa Nebulae 2023, CPH:MARKET 2025
Gallery Exhibition: Chappe Art House
2 Oct. 2026 – 28th Feb. 2027
Festival Premiere: 2027
Producer: Tuuli Penttinen-Lampisuo /
Poike Productio

Premiere link by request:
t u u l i @ p o i k e . f i

What would snow say if it could talk? Snow crystals and snow cover can tell the distance traveled by snow, and the weather conditions it experienced. The film follows snow researchers at the Arctic Space Centre, observing the continuous, invisible micro-motion of snow as crystals transform, layers merge, and masses move.

The optical properties of snow change and as it ages, its albedo decreases. Snow is an irreplaceable companion of life, as the reflectivity of snow protects the Earth from heating.

In Snowline, the intimate examination of snow expands to over a century of measurement history: Julia skis on the fells in Iittovuoma, taking monthly snowline measurements. In Helsinki, Yrjö from the Finnish Environment Institute receives and checks observation series stored in a database. The film moves between different perspectives, embodying satellite technology, human bodies and geophysical experience with snow.

The film was shot in 2023–2024 in Kilpisjärvi, Sodankylä, Ridnitšohkka and Helsinki. The project is related to Sanni Priha’s doctoral research at the University of Lapland, where she is studying film as a means of identifying and evoking environmental grief.

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