The Other VoicE

2022, documentary, 88 min
Production & Cinema distribution: Tarasow Films | Broadcast distribution: Yle (Finland) | Festivals: Helsinki Documentary Film Festival 2022

There Will Be Spring

2020, fiction drama, 74 min
Production & Cinema distribution: Tarasow Films | Vod Distribution: Elisa Viihde & Viaplay | Awards: Jussi 2021 nomination: Best Cinematography (Finnish national film awards) | Festivals: Espoo Ciné International Film Festival 2020, Midnight Sun Film Festival 2021

Within Limits

2009, documentary, 90 min
Production: Illume Ltd | Cinema Distribution: Pirkanmaan elokuvakeskus | Broadcast Distribution: Yle (Finland) | Awards: Jussi 2010 nomination: Best Documentary Film, Best Music (Finnish national film awards); Tampere Film Festival 2009: The Main Prize of the Finnish Competition in the over 30 minutes cathegory, Audience Award for the best Finnish film; EuroMedia Award 2010: Special Award for Discourse and Politics; State Quality Support 2009 | Festivals: Camerimage 2010, Arctic & Fabulous 2009, Tampere Film Festival 2009, DocPoint Helsinki Documentary Film Festival 2009, M:DOX 2009, Kettupäivät 2009, Oulu International Children’s and Youth Film Festival 2009

Out of Frame

2009, documentary, 26 min
Production: J.W. Documentaries Ltd | Broadcast distribution: Yle (Finland)

Alone, Together

2007, documentary, 52 min
Production: UIAH | Awards: Nordisk Panorama Film Festival 2008: New Nordic Talent

Truckdriver, My Father

2005, documentary, 18 min
Production: UIAH

End of Innocence

2002, documentary, 18 min
Production: UIAH

K.A. Nieminen

2000, documentary, 11 min
Production: UIAH

Photo by Samuel Grof @ Billnäsin Ruukki

Annika Grof is a Swedish-born Finnish screenwriter and film director.

She graduated from University of Industrial Design and Art Helsinki, department of Film in 2009. Annika has been working as a director, scriptwriter, developer, dramatist and funding expert in film, tv and commercial productions since 2006. Award-winning author has created and conseptualised successful series for the Finnish audience and has also directed three theatrical films in addition to other artistic work. As a filmmaker, Annika has the power to show even the strangest nuances of the human mind and combine them into natural narration.

As a director, Annika works with fiction and non-fiction films. Her first feature was a documentary Within Limits (2009) that has become one of the classics of Finnish documentaries. Her latest feature fiction is timeless epoch drama There Will Be Spring (2020), that got its international premiere in Midnight Sun Film Festival in June during the Covid years in 2021.