Documentaries
Anerca, Breath of Life
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Markku Lehmuskallio, Johannes Lehmuskallio
- Screenwriters
- Markku Lehmuskallio, Johannes Lehmuskallio
- Producers
- Markku Lehmuskallio
- Premiere
- 28.8.2020
- SES grant
- 44 000 €
- Budget
- 132 000 €
- Production companies
- Giron-filmi Oy
The film progresses though the power of music, dance, performance and depiction of everyday life. Gaining your daily subsistence, the ordinary life is the central source for music and other kinds of self-expression. It is life itself breathing. The cultures depicted in the film are the Chukchi, Alaskan and Canadian Inuit, the Sayisi Dene people of Canada, Greenlanders, Sámi, Nenets, Selkups and Nganasans.
School of Hope
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Mohamed El Aboudi
- Screenwriters
- Mohamed El Aboudi
- Producers
- Pertti Veijalainen, Jenny Timonen
- Release year
- 2021
- SES grant
- 150 000 €
- Budget
- 315 000 €
- Production companies
- Illume Ltd. Oy
- Distribution companies
- Yle
School of Hope tells about a nomad tribe struggling to get education for their children, and a young teacher trying to help them while suffering himself of the Government’s indifference toward rural regions.
Climate change and overgrazing have brought poverty to the old nomad tribes of the High Plateau of Atlas in Morocco and forced them to partial settlement. Now faced with the changing environment and the necessity to settle down, they feel more lost than when wandering with their cattle in the endless desert. They’d need wells, electricity, health care and schools, but the Government is not interested in their troubles.
When the Dehbi tribe couldn’t get a State school to their area, they decided to build it themselves, and through an association managed to get a teacher to come there. The small school can only offer the first elementary classes, after which the children should move to town to continue studying. Even if the family might be able to afford sending a child there, they don’t want to send the girls, worried of their safety. The situation is complex; the nomads know they need education but are also afraid of it, afraid of losing their children.
Gods of Molenbeek
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Reetta Huhtanen
- Screenwriters
- Reetta Huhtanen
- Producers
- Hannu-Pekka Vitikainen
- Premiere
- 9.8.2019
- SES grant
- 90 000 €
- Budget
- 200 000 €
- Production companies
- Zone2 Pictures Oy
- Distribution companies
- Pirkanmaan elokuvakeskus
“What is my God?” asks 6-years old boy, the protagonist of the film. He is hungry for knowledge of everything and abstract things have started to trouble his mind. In the film Gods of Molenbeek, the protagonist searches for outlook on life in a world which is in the middle of threat of terror. His best friends are a muslim boy and an atheist girl.
Ride of Passage
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Katri Myllyniemi, Vilja Autiokyrö
- Screenwriters
- Katri Myllyniemi, Vilja Autiokyrö
- Producers
- Mete Sasioglu
- Release year
- 2019
- SES grant
- 4 000 €
- Budget
- 11 000 €
- Production companies
- Sons of Lumière Oy
In the summer night, hundreds of mopeds and cross bikes gather in a secret square.
Nature Symphony
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Marko Röhr
- Screenwriters
- Marko Röhr
- Producers
- Hanna Järvinen, Marko Röhr
- Premiere
- 22.3.2019
- SES grant
- 50 000 €
- Budget
- 180 000 €
- Production companies
- MRP Matila Röhr Productions
- Distribution companies
- Nordisk Film
The Happiest Man on Earth
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Joonas Berghäll
- Screenwriters
- Joonas Berghäll
- Producers
- Joonas Berghäll, Satu Majava
- Premiere
- 29.3.2019
- SES grant
- 160 000 €
- Budget
- 300 000 €
- Production companies
- Oktober Oy
- Distribution companies
- Baloa Pictures Oy
A lonely 40-year-old man sits on the balcony of a Finnish apartment building. Joonas Berghäll has learned that he will die in 14 years’ time, unless he changes his way of living or attitude towards life. Joonas wants to make a film about the state of wellbeing of Finnish men, drawing from his own experiences and mirroring the society at large.
The Magic Life of V
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Tonislav Hristov
- Screenwriters
- Tonislav Hristov, Kaarle Aho
- Producers
- Kaarle Aho, Kai Nordberg
- Premiere
- 23.8.2019
- Production companies
- Making Movies Oy
- Distribution companies
- Pirkanmaan elokuvakeskus
A young woman haunted by her childhood traumas is trying to help her mentally disabled brother to become more independent through live-role-playing. As she guides the brother through the world of multiple roles and identities, witches and wizards and medieval knights, she finally finds the courage to face the demons of her own past.
A Stranger
- International coproduction SE-FI
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Mikel Cee Karlsson
- Producers
- Erik Hemmendorff, Mark Lwoff, Misha Jaari
- Release year
- 2019
- SES grant
- 22 000 €
- Budget
- 484 000 €
- Production companies
- Oy Bufo Ab
A man is soon about to die, but he doesn’t know that yet. He only knows that he needs to tell his story. Fraemling is a film about a young father’s unlikely descent into a secret dual life of criminality and violence.
Invisible Demons
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Rahul Jain
- Screenwriters
- Rahul Jain, Iikka Vehkalahti
- Producers
- Iikka Vehkalahti
- Premiere
- 26.11.2021
- SES grant
- 179 000 €
- Budget
- 1 058 000 €
- Production companies
- Toinen katse
- Distribution companies
- Pirkanmaan elokuvakeskus
A prismatic meditation on pollution in the capital of the World’s biggest free-market democracy and the most polluted and populated city, Delhi – a film about the pollution inside of the human mind.
Harmageddon Armageddon in the Livingroom
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Katja Niemi
- Screenwriters
- Katja Niemi
- Producers
- Oskar Forstén
- Release year
- 2020
- SES grant
- 55 000 €
- Budget
- 116 000 €
- Production companies
- Franckforstén Oy
The Jehovah’s Witnesses’ internal judicial committee concluded that Josefina, 11 years old, had seduced her abuser, because “an adult wouldn’t touch a child that way.” Josefina believed she was guilty and remained silent. Until now. 25 years later she relives her traumas by reconstructing scenes from her childhood with other former Jehovah’s Witnesses.