Documentaries
The Red Ring
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Joonas Berghäll
- Screenwriters
- Joonas Berghäll
- Producers
- Satu Majava, Joonas Berghäll
- Premiere
- 14.5.2021
- SES grant
- 268 480 €
- Budget
- 530 000 €
- Production companies
- Oktober Oy
- Distribution companies
- Baloa Pictures Oy
Själö – Island of Souls
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Lotta Petronella
- Screenwriters
- Lotta Petronella, Seppo Parkkinen
- Producers
- Ilona Tolmunen
- Release year
- 2020
- SES grant
- 90 000 €
- Budget
- 260 000 €
- Production companies
- Made
Island of Souls is a film about memory, of the things we want to remember or are allowed to remember and who decides what will be remembered.
Silicon Valley, Baby
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Erika Haavisto
- Screenwriters
- Heli Sirviö, Erika Haavisto
- Producers
- Wille Lehtovaara, Heli Sirviö
- Release year
- 2020
- SES grant
- 95 000 €
- Budget
- 150 000 €
- Production companies
- Taavi Vartia Film & TV Oy
Silicon Valley, Baby on dokumenttielokuva kunnianhimoisesta nuoresta miehestä, joka halusi saavuttaa kaiken, urasta joka otti kaiken, ja rakkaudesta mikä kesti kaiken.
Koho – Future from Forssa
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Sakari Suuronen
- Screenwriters
- Sakari Suuronen
- Producers
- Mika Ritalahti
- Release year
- 2022
- SES grant
- 30 000 €
- Budget
- 103 000 €
- Production companies
- Silva Mysterium Oy
Portrait of a forgotten visionary, Kari Aro, founder of the hockey stick company KOHO, in a small Finnish town, in the 60s. With the success of the company, Aro’s futuristic ideas unfolded to the astonishment of the locals. This heart-warming and humorous film recounts the untold story of KOHO and Aro’s utopian vision for a better future.
Solitaire Dance
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Antti Lempiäinen
- Screenwriters
- Antti Lempiäinen
- Producers
- Ella Ruohonen
- Release year
- 2021
- SES grant
- 90 000 €
- Budget
- 172 000 €
- Production companies
- Superreel Productions
In the ruins of communality a growing number of people are left alone. Emma-Maria tries to cope on her own with two small children. Emilia, 24, spends her time driving around the streets of a small Finnish town. Lasse, 80, divorced his wife after a long marriage, and spends his days playing cards and his nights writing poems. They all face obstacles trying to get away from the situation. However, through dance, poetry, sheer coincidence and persistence, their stories develop further from loneliness. By focusing on their everyday experience with emotional and social loneliness the film zooms out to a wider problem of a structural loneliness in western societies.
The Dinosaur
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Veikko Aaltonen
- Screenwriters
- Veikko Aaltonen
- Producers
- Mark Lwoff, Misha Jaari
- Release year
- 2021
- SES grant
- 130 000 €
- Budget
- 306 584 €
- Production companies
- Oy Bufo Ab
A documentary about director Rauni Mollbergista and Finnish film then and now.
Innocence
- International co-production: DK-IL-FI
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Guy Davidi
- Screenwriters
- Guy Davidi
- Producers
- Sigrid Dykjaer, Hilla Medailla, Kaarle Aho
- Release year
- 2022
- SES grant
- 40 000 €
- Budget
- 815 000 €
- Production companies
- Making Movies Oy
Innocence tackles the issue of militarization and its impact on the lives of young Israeli people who are forced to serve against their own identity and values. Through a narration based on the haunting diaries of soldiers who died in uniform and rare home video they left behind, the film depicts their inner turmoil. Interweaved together with first-hand training videos and unique filmed life moments, the film shows how children and young people are being tracked and pressured step by step from early childhood into military enrolment and away from their parents.
Yvonne
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Anna Blom
- Screenwriters
- Anna Blom
- Producers
- Anna Blom
- Release year
- 2020
- SES grant
- 10 000 €
- Budget
- 55 000 €
- Production companies
- Ja Media Production Ab
Yvonne is a film about a 57-year old woman with an intellectual disability who gains the respect and admiration of her critical mother. She does it through interpreting her life at the Swedish Theatre in Helsinki, despite her severe stage fright.
Best Possible Life
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Jussi Sandhu, Ville Hakonen
- Screenwriters
- Jussi Sandhu, Ville Hakonen
- Producers
- Pasi Hakkio, Niina Virtanen
- Release year
- 2020
- SES grant
- 20 000 €
- Budget
- 40 000 €
- Production companies
- Wacky Tie Films
It’s party time! Melancholic Finns in search of happiness.
Good Life
- International co-production SE-FI
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Marta Dauliūtė, Viktorija Šiaulytė
- Screenwriters
- Marta Dauliūtė, Viktorija Šiaulytė
- Producers
- Marta Dauliūtė, Viktorija Šiaulytė, Niklas Kullström, Mirjam Gelhorn, Dagnė Vildžiūnaitė
- Release year
- 2022
- SES grant
- 18 000 €
- Budget
- 318 000 €
- Production companies
- Hillstream Pictures Oy
Good Life is an absorbing case study of a co-living start-up, where corporate culture and community building make an extraordinary match. With sharp wit the film highlights the present-day loss of privacy and how corporate storytelling becomes part of one’s innermost self.