Why has Sweden produced a number of good films but not finlan?

Finland gained independence only in the last century, give us time.

 

To be able to get funding here you pretty much need to get money from Elokuvasäätiö (Finnish Film Foundation). It is responsible for something like 42,4% of funds for new movies. and to please them the movie needs to please the decision makers there. It is hard for new faces to get in, and risks are avoided. The Finnish Film Foundation again gets its own funding from tax payer money from the Ministry of Education and Culture.

So in the end a bunch of old bureucrats sit deciding what type of film to fund, there seems to be little room for artistic freedom.

Sweden has also done everything correctly with their economy, even their Social Democrat party has driven through politics that increase wealth and reduce debts - in Finland it has been the opposite.

In America musicians, artists, movie makers get big budgets without tax payer money. Here it's not like that, musicians can barely make a living even if they are famous here.

Castle in the Sky is my favourite watch of 2020.

Does Sweden produce good movies these days? I've only really watches classic bergman movies and then Offret. I'd imagine the current ones are pretty terrible quasipropaganda films like most hollywood stuff