Documentaries
Tukdam
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Donagh Coleman
- Screenwriters
- Donagh Coleman
- Producers
- Kaarle Aho
- Premiere
- 30.9.2022
- SES grant
- 130 000 €
- Budget
- 500 000 €
- Production companies
- Making Movies Oy
- Distribution companies
- Cinema Mondo
In what Tibetans call tukdam, deceased meditators show no signs of death for days or weeks. Juxtaposing ground-breaking scientific research and Tibetan perspectives, this creative documentary challenges our notions of life and death, and where we draw the line between them.
Eye to Eye
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- John Webster
- Screenwriters
- John Webster
- Producers
- John Webster
- Release year
- 2020
- SES grant
- 90 000 €
- Budget
- 204 000 €
- Production companies
- JW Documentaries Oy
Restorative dialogue (Redi) is a form of trauma therapy for the family members of victims of violent crime. Under specific circumstances it can be beneficial for them to meet the perpetrator – in most cases the murderer – face to face. The most important criteria for this meeting is that the perpetrator should want to ask for forgiveness for the crime. But the benefits are not only one-sided – this face-to-face meeting can also help the perpetrator come to terms with the crime they committed.
The film follows two such cases over several months. During the film we witness the unlocking of a state of prolonged grief in the families and the beginnings of a healing process, and we see the perpetrators coming to accept responsibility for their crimes. Major themes in the film are love, loss, the power of asking for forgiveness, and the importance of mourning.
Save and Quit?
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Esa Illi
- Screenwriters
- Esa Illi
- Producers
- Klaus Heydemann
- Release year
- 2020
- SES grant
- 92 500 €
- Budget
- 205 000 €
- Production companies
- Inland Film Company Oy
A feature documentary about today’s youth, about what it is like to grow up in a constantly changing world; a world moving at rapid pace, where almost nothing seems to be certain anymore. Growing up in the era of ‘digitalisation of everything’, sometimes described as ’Liquid times’. It is also a documentary outlining for us that world. The world as it actually is for the teenagers. The world in which our children live, even if we, their parents, don’t.
Eva
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Mikko Peltonen
- Screenwriters
- Mikko Peltonen
- Producers
- Elina Pohjola, Leila Lyytikäinen
- Release year
- 2019
- SES grant
- 50 000 €
- Budget
- 257 000 €
- Production companies
- Citizen Jane Productions
Reflecting Ice
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Nina Forsman
- Screenwriters
- Nina Forsman
- Producers
- Niina Virtanen
- Release year
- 2019
- SES grant
- 55 500 €
- Budget
- 120 000 €
- Production companies
- Wacky Tie Films
- Distribution companies
- Yle
Reflecting Ice is a documentary about a Finnish ice dance couple Olesia Karmi and Max Lindholm and their journey from the top to quitting and finally finding happiness from letting go.
Writing with Fire
- International co-production: IN-FI
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Sushmit Ghosh, Rintu Thomas
- Screenwriters
- Sushmit Ghosh, Rintu Thomas
- Producers
- Sushmit Ghosh, Rintu Thomas, John Webster
- Release year
- 2021
- SES grant
- 20 000 €
- Budget
- 219 000 €
- Production companies
- JW Documentaries Oy
In one of the most socially oppressive and patriarchal states of India emerges a newspaper run entirely by rural women belonging to the Dalit or ‘untouchable’ community. Meera, its popular political reporter, decides to magnify the local paper’s impact with an audacious move – to transform from print to a digital news agency. Working in media dark villages, mocked and discouraged, this is the story of a visionary woman’s feisty spirit in building what will probably be the world’s first digital news agency run entirely by rural Dalit women.
The Other Side of Mars
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Minna Långström
- Screenwriters
- Minna Långström
- Producers
- Liisa Juntunen
- Release year
- 2019
- SES grant
- 50 000 €
- Budget
- 135 000 €
- Production companies
- napafilms oy
Dear Mother
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Paul-Anders Simma
- Screenwriters
- Paul-Anders Simma
- Producers
- Paul-Anders Simma, Margus Önapuu
- Release year
- 2020
- SES grant
- 75 000 €
- Budget
- 370 000 €
- Production companies
- Saamifilmi Oy
Dear Mother is about sixteen year old Tasha who lives at an orphanage in Kandalaksha, N.W Russia. One day an unknown woman calls her and claims that she is her mother. Tasha is shocked since the authorities had declared her mother dead by a drug overdose several years ago, but her body was never recovered.
The secret at the heart of this film is in Tasha’s forgotten hometown Lujaur. Different native tribes where relocated to this swamp on the middle of the tundra by the Soviet authorities. The objective was to create a utopian society where a new breed of socialistic humans would emerge. Instead many natives where abused in the name of progress. It’s a story about buried secrets and the search for identity, the universal need to understand why our families turn out the way they do.
Typhoon Mama
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Charlotta Lou Strömberg
- Screenwriters
- Charlotta Lou Strömberg
- Producers
- Marianne Mäkelä, Pertti Veijalainen
- Release year
- 2019
- SES grant
- 90 000 €
- Budget
- 226 000 €
- Production companies
- Illume Ltd. Oy
Director’s stepmother Yolanda, a Filipino woman married and living in Sweden, faces a balancing act for many immigrants: working a grueling job as a maid to keep up with having to pay unrealistic remittances to her three sons back home in the Philippines. When her grandson dies under suspicious circumstances, the family dynamics changes unexpectedly.
Future Remains
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Anna-Karin Grönroos
- Screenwriters
- Anna-Karin Grönroos
- Producers
- Oskar Forstén
- Release year
- 2021
- SES grant
- 80 000 €
- Budget
- 260 000 €
- Production companies
- Parad Media Oy
Future Remains is a documentary about the power of idealism through the story of Henrik Wahlforss, an industrial designer who believed design can change the future.