The Happiest Man on Earth

The ironically titled film offers a remarkably honest confession of the filmmaker himself and several of his countrymen, men who share a common trait: everyone is openly unhappy. In a country whose population is one of the happiest in the world, according to data from the World Happiness Report, and which is now run by a government full of self-confident women, there is also a large group of existentially subjugated men. Some die in the military, others suffer from burnout, loneliness, ancestral alcoholism or loss of paternal role and contact with children. But the call to sympathise with the Finnish men that the film gently makes is utterly guileless, forgoing nostalgia for the past patriarchal times, strong government or "traditional values". (One World)