Finland: Music travels with Yle

Among the main titles, the company highlights the three seasons of Sound Tracker (Gimmeyawallet), where the rock star and music aficionado Sami Yaffa travels the world and explores the musical treasures of our beautiful blue planet. It's a universal language that unites us all, cuts thru the color barriers, religions and social standings. Music is for everyone, it makes us one.

While the music documentary Project Rockin' High (70’ or 52’), where the Finnish hard rock band AncarA decides to play the world highest rock gig in the Mount Everest Base Camp. They hope to get their name to the Guinness World Record and break through worldwide at the same time.

Other top titles are To Nightwish with Love (58’) about one of most successful metal bands in Europe, with 8 million records sold and 4.4 million fans in Facebook; Tero Saarinen - Jean Sibelius: Kullervo (90’), produced by Finnish National Opera, Yle and ARTE, and centered on the internationally acclaimed Finnish choreographer Tero Saarinen, and Seven Symphonies by Sibelius (7x60’), a program that will give a new and modern perspective to Sibelius and his symphonies. Each episode has three parts: a documentary, samples of symphonies and an introduction, filmed in e.g. Berlin, Stockholm and Vienna, all ending with the live recording of the symphony in question. Lastly are Sort of Sibelius! (8x10’), fictional short documentaries, and Notes on Saariaho (30’).

Project Rockin’ High trailer