Snowball Effect

Oct 6, 2023

1h 30m

★ 6.0

A very Finnish scandal

Overview

Director Pauliina Punkki wants to find out what happened in Kittilä, home to 6,500 people and 12,000 reindeer? How a young, green feminist from Kauniainen, first hired and then fired by the municipality as its third mayor, created a snowball effect with no end in sight. A media circus, lawsuits and the new state law Lex Kittilä are just some of the consequences of the snowball effect.

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Documentary

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Ida Productions

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