Arctic Football Heart: docuseries about Santa’s soccer team in Rovaniemi, Lapland

Arctic Football Heart is a documentary series about Santa Claus’s hometown Rovaniemi’s (Lapland, Finland) RoPS football community and supporters in stormy times. This series is the international version of Sinivalkoisella sinnikkyydellä, which was released on Finland’s leading SVOD service RUUTU in June 2022. The series filmed in 2020-2021 and focuses on the 70th anniversary of RoPS in 2020. The last filming of the series, made by a team Lapland professionals was done in November 2021. Arctic Football Heart / Sinivalkoisella sinnikkyydellä is above all a timeless story of people and community in extraordinary times. It’s also a series about the true values and meaning of football and sports to communities.

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