Animated films and series
Fleak
- Category
- Animated films and series
- Screenwriters
- Antti Haikala, Melli Maikkula, Teemu Auersalo, Ilja Rautsi
- Producers
- Antti Haikala
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 1 000 000 €
- Budget
- 4 000 000 €
- Production companies
- Anima Vitae Ltd.
- Distribution companies
- Aurora Studios
Blush – An Extraordinary Voyage
- Category
- Animated films and series
- Directors
- Iiti Yli-Harja
- Screenwriters
- Iiti Yli-Harja
- Producers
- Valtteri Munkki, Mikko Heino
- Release year
- 2022
- SES grant
- 40 000 €
- Budget
- 86 000 €
- Production companies
- Side Stories Oy
For 18-year-old Finnish–Kosovan Fatu, a simple visit to the grocery store feels as nerve-racking as a lunar expedition: for the first time in his life, he’s wearing makeup in public. Luckily his best friend Rai, a young woman on the spectrum of autism, is there to ferociously support him through the voyage.
Parting
- Category
- Animated films and series
- Directors
- Seppo Renvall
- Screenwriters
- Seppo Renvall
- Producers
- Satu Alhojärvi
- Release year
- 2022
- SES grant
- 17 000 €
- Budget
- 32 000 €
- Production companies
- Ex-Professo Arts Management Oy
Composer Kimmo Kuitunen was influenced 15 years ago by the famous Finnish poet Eino Leino and his old poem “Erotessa”. He began composing a choral work for the poem, but the composition turned into a wordless version. Artist Seppo Renvall discovered this piece of music called “LeinoMeetsOrc” and set out to visualize it. The result is a mathematically closely related symmetry of image and sound. Kuitinen’s contemporary classical orchestral work and Renvall’s impressionistic experimental worlds of everyday life leads to a dreamlike harmony for eyes and ears.
Gravitating
- Category
- Animated films and series
- Directors
- Heta Okkonen
- Screenwriters
- Heta Okkonen
- Producers
- Mika Koskinen, Tomi Riionheimo
- Release year
- 2023
- SES grant
- 43 000 €
- Budget
- 75 000 €
- Production companies
- Indie Films Oy
Two worlds collide in gravity altering love. The darkness of the mind enters.
The Piano Lesson
- Category
- Animated films and series
- Directors
- Nils-Erik Ekblom, Tom Norrgrann
- Screenwriters
- Nils-Erik Ekblom, Tom Norrgrann
- Producers
- Nils-Erik Ekblom, Tom Norrgrann
- Release year
- 2023
- SES grant
- 30 000 €
- Budget
- 117 000 €
- Production companies
- Ten Thousand Hearts Oy
Two young lives intertwine by the melody of a piano as the world goes mad around them during WW2. The Piano Lesson shows children’s perspective on the chaotic events of June 25th, 1941, when the Soviet Union bombed Helsinki.
Mirages
- Category
- Animated films and series
- Directors
- Marikki Hakola
- Screenwriters
- Marikki Hakola
- Producers
- Marikki Hakola
- Release year
- 2021
- SES grant
- 120 000 €
- Budget
- 900 000 €
- Production companies
- Kroma Productions Oy
- Distribution companies
- Yle
Mirages is a story about finding resources of human power, told with a strong female voice. The protagonist contemplates a close relationship, the different faces of love, the sensation of senses and the end of a relationship. Her mind broadens slowly from individual remembrances towards the community and recognition of her own powers. She shifts her energies towards a greater, communal purpose.
Ro
- International co-production PL-FI
- Category
- Animated films and series
- Directors
- Magda Osińska
- Screenwriters
- Magda Osińska, Bartosz Wierzbięta
- Producers
- Grzegorz Wacławek, Piotr Szczepanowicz, Tom Carpelan, Ira Carpelan
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 150 000 €
- Budget
- 2 950 000 €
- Production companies
- Filmkompaniet Alpha
Ro – a young flamingo leaves his bay and goes to the city where he discovers music, and true friendship through which he succeeds to build up the broken bond between flamingos and humans.
Archipellina and the Chalk Chrystal
- Category
- Animated films and series
- Directors
- Antonia Ringbom
- Screenwriters
- Antonia Ringbom, Tuomo Leino
- Producers
- Mats Långbacka
- Release year
- 2020
- SES grant
- 60 000 €
- Budget
- 650 000 €
- Production companies
- Långfilm Productions Finland Oy
The young bird Krä knows everything that’s going on in the islands of Archipellina. Now that autumn is here, he has to part with his best friend Neppa who is leaving south with her family on the house boat Casafloat. She gives him a set of small presents he can open when the longing becomes too strong. They bring back memories and take Krä around the islands to meet their strange inhabitants, whose problems he boldly tries to solve.
There are ecological adventures on land and under the sea. The flounder Unda is fighting Protodump’s scrap dumping; Ecolo, the Inventor, is recycling eelgrass in an effort to charm Isola from the neighboring island, who’d rather be sculpting. The potato brothers Carl and Will need to stop being so inhospitable when the French Fries Lady pays them a visit, The Hungry Wash-ups on Happyharu receive surprise guests. Even a new little Archipellite is born! Finally Neppa comes home, airborne! Krä and Neppa surprise Protodump by throwing him a birthday party.
However, there is a shadow from the past in the form of the cruel Mr Sourpuss. Is it his mark on the treasure map that Krä found in the submarine wreck? Is he after The Limestone Crystal under the sea? Is he able to make the dangerous tornadoes that ruin the Happyween party? Krä and Neppa are going to solve all these mysteries as winter is coming and it will be Christmas in Archipellina.
Archipellina and the Black Box
- Category
- Animated films and series
- Directors
- Antonia Ringbom
- Screenwriters
- Antonia Ringbom, Tuomo Leino
- Producers
- Mats Långbacka
- Release year
- 2021
- SES grant
- 20 000 €
- Budget
- 510 000 €
- Production companies
- Långfilm Productions Finland Oy
- Distribution companies
- Yle
The Last Matador
- Category
- Animated films and series
- Directors
- Katariina Lillqvist
- Screenwriters
- Katariina Lillqvist
- Producers
- Katariina Lillqvist, Tomas Rychetsky, Nils Claesson
- Release year
- 2021
- SES grant
- 26 510 €
- Budget
- 98 000 €
- Production companies
- Camera Cagliostro
When the last bullfighting arena in Catalonia is turned into a shopping mall, an old matador has to earn his living in the decadent night clubs of Barcelona. One night, the bored Russian president pops into the same bar, trying to freshen up his too long holidays. In no time he feels an urgent desire to try on his luck as a corrido hero before it is too late.