Anima Vitae

30/04/2026

Hyvää Vappua, Glada Vappen!!! Happy Mayday! We've promised ourselves to be more active in social media from now on 😅🥳😱🍾 These lil fellas are from our new show Minifauna

29/09/2025

Moominvalley Season 4 has been nominated for an International Emmy Award!

This marks the third International Emmy nomination for the series, with the latest season nominated in the ”Kids: Animation” category - proof the series continues from strength to strength and the world loves the Moomins!

The series is produced by Gutsy Animations for Yle and Sky, with our Helsinki and Kuala Lumpur studios proud to provide animation services.

Congratulations to the entire Gutsy Animations and Anima Vitae teams on this prestigious nomination! We are keeping our fingers crossed for you Marika Makaroff and the Gutsy Team! 🤞🏆

18/09/2025

We had the pleasure of talking to Marta Balaga at Variety about two of our upcoming projects that we are excited about - ’Eek! Ghosts!’ based on Mauri Kunnas’ beloved books and the eco-adventure ’Trash Monsters.’

Stay tuned for monsters and ghosts in Anima’s future! 👻 🤖

Article:
https://variety.com/2025/film/global/anima-vitae-niko-eek-ghosts-trash-monsters-1236521614/

10/09/2025

Kiitos Audiovisual Producers Finland - APFI kunnianosoituksesta!

Thank you Audiovisual Producers Finland - APFI for granting Anima this year’s Hulda - Finnish Audiovisual Export Award. This is the result of years of work by our studio and its artists.

”Niko - Beyond the Northern Lights” territories are practically sold out internationally with 3 million tickets sold at the box office by now. ”Fleak” has already sold to 40 countries and counting.

It is great to see Finnish animation travel so well internationally. This is thanks to the great work by the artists of our studio and all of our partners in Finland and abroad! 💐 🏆

03/09/2025

Today, we had a special crew and friends & families premiere screening in Helsinki!

It was great to have so many of the Anima team behind creating our beloved pink furry Fleak in the same room. After all the hard work, it was great to celebrate our movie and watch it on the big screen together with our friends and families! Many other guests also attended, and we’re grateful that so many people accepted our invitation and came. Thank you!

Fleak will premiere in Finland this Friday, on September 5th! We hope you will go see the movie with your whole family and have a great time!

A huge thank you to everyone who made this possible. But for now, we’ll continue celebrating here! 🥂

02/09/2025

Subject of the day: Fleak!

The premiere of Fleak is fast approaching, and today an article about Fleak was published on the Suomen Kuvalehti website! The article also covers the history of Anima Vitae, which has been operating for 25 years. The article is in Finnish, but I recommend checking it out, even with the help of a translation program.

And was that all of today’s Fleak news? Of course not! Today, the Finnish TV channel MTV3 aired a program called ”Viiden jälkeen” (lit. ’After Five’), which discusses current events and news. Fleak was also featured on this program. If you missed the TV broadcast, don’t worry! You can watch it on the MTV-katsomo streaming service.

Link to the article:
https://suomenkuvalehti.fi/kulttuuri/mielikuvitusta-markkinoille/

Viiden jälkeen, Season 13, Episode 129
https://www.mtv.fi/ohjelma/4014d1259badf9d35c2a/viiden-jalkeen?tab=episodes

28/08/2025

This week, the enchanting world of Fleak took center stage as the opening film for Junior Ciné, part of Finland’s largest film festival, ! 🥳

The film’s creator, Antti Haikala, shared the amazing story behind the character. Fleak was born many years ago as a special imaginary friend for his own sons. Whenever arguments or tricky situations arose, Fleak, a small creature from another dimension, would magically appear to calm things down.

But as Haikala’s sons grew up, he couldn’t let go of his beloved character and a new thought entered his mind: ”What if something were to happen now? Could Fleak still help them?” That powerful question sparked an idea that would transform his family’s imaginary friend into the hero of a full-length feature film.

27/08/2025

Fleak is finally ready to go out into the world on his own! 💫

Our amazing team has been working on the movie for many years. Now the moment is
arriving to let cinema audiences see our pink, cookie-loving friend, Fleak! 🍪

The story was originally created by our producer and CEO, Antti Haikala, who used to
tell his own children stories about the creature Fleak. It has been Antti’s long-time
dream to bring Fleak to life, and it’s incredible that we were able to release another film
so soon after Niko - Beyond the Northern Lights. Our studio has certainly never been as
busy as it was when we were producing two films at the same time!

Thanks to our friends at SF Studios who are distributing the film in the Nordics,
Fleak is having his own mini tour of shopping malls in Finland. Maybe some of you will
get to spot him in person and play some Fleak games!

13/08/2025

Today's the day! Our animated feature Fleak is premiering in over 300 cinema halls across France 🇫🇷. In France Fleak is called Wishy🤩

Le Monde de Wishy c'est à partir de demain dans les salles !
Réseaux UGC, Pathé, CGR etc... plus de 300 salles en France.

Notre premier long métrage en coproduction avec les créateurs de Niko le Petit Renne, Anima Vitae, sort enfin et nous sommes fiers et émus!
Réalisé par Jens Møller (c'est son troisième long métrage après de nombreuses séries et spéciaux de Lego Starwars et Lego Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu).
Teaser : https://lnkd.in/edQ9p7Uv

Public familial (à partir de 6 ans) pour ce long métrage qui faisait partie de la sélection officielle du festival d'ANNECY 2025 "Annecy Présente".

Quand Thomas rencontre Wishy, une petite boule de poils venue d’un univers magique, sa vie bascule. Dans ce royaume merveilleux peuplé de créatures fantastiques, il peut remarcher, et même voler ! Mais lorsque le portail entre les mondes libère un monstre, Thomas et son nouvel ami vont devoir partir à l’aventure pour sauver leurs deux univers.

21/07/2025

Siistiiiii!!!! 🤩🤩🤩🤩🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳