Rare Exports Inc.

Rare Exports Inc. (2003) — watch online on iFILM: an eight-minute Finnish mockumentary directed by Jalmari Helander, framed as a corporate pitch video for a business that captures and trains wild Santa Clauses to order.

Three hunters head into a snowbound forest to bag a rare seasonal specimen. The voiceover is businesslike, the camerawork is documentary-serious, and the absurdity only lands because nobody on screen acknowledges it. The short went cult on the festival circuit and seeded Helander's 2010 feature of the same premise. Stream Rare Exports Inc. (2003) online on iFILM.