Documentaries
The Gamer
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Petri Luukkainen, Jesse Jokinen
- Screenwriters
- Jesse Jokinen, Petri Luukkainen
- Producers
- Liisa Karpo, Marianne Mäkelä
- Release year
- 2023
- SES grant
- 190 000 €
- Budget
- 484 000 €
- Production companies
- napafilms oy
The Gamer is a coming of age story set in the harsh world of esports. Young gamers are taken to the limits of their stress control, reaction speed on the pursuit professionalism. When succeeding, still in their late teens, they are faced with the realities and pressure of multi million business and professional sports. Competitive online gaming represents the life of teenagers around the world. It’s all global, all commercial and very much online.
To Teach a Bird to Fly
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Minna Rainio, Mark Roberts
- Screenwriters
- Minna Rainio, Mark Roberts
- Producers
- Maria Gullsten
- Release year
- 2020
- SES grant
- 37 000 €
- Budget
- 96 000 €
- Production companies
- Flatlight Creative Oy
A narrator from a very different future recalls how her grandmother spent 5 years of her young life as a foster parent to a critically endangered bird.
Dance of the Elderly
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Markku Heikkinen
- Screenwriters
- Markku Heikkinen
- Producers
- Miika J. Norvanto
- Release year
- 2020
- SES grant
- 22 500 €
- Budget
- 67 000 €
- Production companies
- Black Lion Pictures
How to Kill a Cloud
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Tuija Halttunen
- Screenwriters
- Tuija Halttunen
- Producers
- Niina Virtanen, Pasi Hakkio
- Premiere
- 10.9.2021
- SES grant
- 135 000 €
- Budget
- 500 000 €
- Production companies
- Wacky Tie Films
- Distribution companies
- Pirkanmaan elokuvakeskus
Scientist Hannele Korhonen has one ultimate passion: to work at the top of the atmospheric science community in the world. She wishes to be totally independent and concentrate on her science while maintaining high ethical values. Her life changes dramatically when she is awarded a 1,5 million USD research grant by the United Arab Emirates. The funder expects her to find ways to make the migratory clouds above the UAE to rain on the country suffering of drought. The opportunity to get proper funding for such a special research is perfect. Gradually she learns that the aim of the funder is to benefit one country, not science at large. Korhonen’s enthusiasm morphs into an ethical dilemma and inner conflicts.
It’s Raining Women
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Mari Soppela
- Screenwriters
- Mari Soppela
- Producers
- Julia Ton
- Release year
- 2022
- SES grant
- 113 400 €
- Budget
- 232 000 €
- Production companies
- LPMA Productions
Finnish migrant filmmaker Mari Soppela travels the world as she takes us on a five-year investigation into the complex realities of the glass ceiling. Scrutinizing the statistics and delving into the lived experiences of women battling discrimination throughout the globe she exposes the uncomfortable truths and dirty secrets of gender bias in the workplace. Simultaneously light-hearted and deadly serious, the film shines a light on a much misunderstood phenomenon and acts as a rallying cry to everyone everywhere to continue the fight for gender equality.
End of the Line: The Women of Standing Rock
- International coproduction US-FI
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Shannon Kring
- Screenwriters
- Shannon Kring
- Producers
- Shannon Kring, Sophia Ehrnrooth
- Release year
- 2021
- SES grant
- 33 000 €
- Budget
- 450 000 €
- Production companies
- Solar Films Oy
End of the Line – The Women of Standing Rock is the incredible story of a group of indigenous women willing to risk their lives to stop the Dakota Access oil pipeline construction that desecrated their ancient burial and prayer sites and threatens their land, water, and very existence. In the process, they must face the personal costs of leadership, even as their own lives and identities are transformed in the crucible of one of the great political and cultural events of the early 21st century. This compelling documentary gives a uniquely powerful view of the unfolding epic of the Standing Rock movement from the inside, illumined through deeply personal footage and interviews with the remarkable women at the heart of it all – women whose lives are forever changed in the crucible of Standing Rock.
The Beloved Daughter
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Tiina Madisson
- Screenwriters
- Tiina Madisson
- Producers
- Kirsi Mattila, Joonas Kauppinen
- Release year
- 2020
- SES grant
- 110 000 €
- Budget
- 260 000 €
- Production companies
- Osuuskunta Icebreaker Productions
Rekha loves her father, Balkumar, more than anything else in the world, and she and her father have an exceptionally close relationship, especially in a society where only sons are valuable and daughters are undesirable.
Colombia in My Arms
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Jenni Kivistö, Jussi Rastas
- Screenwriters
- Jenni Kivistö, Jussi Rastas
- Producers
- Markku Tuurna
- Release year
- 2020
- SES grant
- 135 000 €
- Budget
- 386 000 €
- Production companies
- Filmimaa Oy
Hockey Dreams
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Janne Niskala, Oskari Pastila
- Screenwriters
- Janne Niskala, Oskari Pastila
- Producers
- Janne Niskala, Oskari Pastila
- Premiere
- 9.2.2022
- SES grant
- 140 000 €
- Budget
- 706 000 €
- Production companies
- Vaski Filmi Oy
- Distribution companies
- Storyhill Oy
Host country Korea will face the world’s best hockey nation Canada in the opening match of 2018 Winter Olympics. Ethnically Korean, but mentally North American hockey coach is given a huge challenge to prevent national embarrassment.
Conductivity
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Anna-Karin Grönroos
- Screenwriters
- Anna-Karin Grönroos
- Producers
- Venla Hellstedt, Elli Toivoniemi
- Premiere
- 7.2.2020
- SES grant
- 120 000 €
- Budget
- 238 000 €
- Production companies
- Tuffi Films Oy
- Distribution companies
- Tuffi Films Oy
The documentary Conductivity follows three young conducting students at the Sibelius Academy as they struggle to find their place in the hierarchical world of classical music. The Sibelius Academy in Helsinki is one of the most prestigious European music academies and its conductor class is world famous. The main theme of the film is leadership that arises from a rocky road where tension, social anxieties and involuntary mannerisms may form overpowering barriers.