Documentaries
Broken Dreamland
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Hannu-Pekka Vitikainen, Khalid Laboudi
- Screenwriters
- Hannu-Pekka Vitikainen, Khalid Laboudi
- Producers
- Marianne Mäkelä, Hannu-Pekka Vitikainen
- Premiere
- 15.4.2022
- SES grant
- 129 500 €
- Budget
- 251 000 €
- Production companies
- Zone2 Pictures Oy
- Distribution companies
- Zone2 Pictures Oy
They were similar kind of drifters: young, restless with no direction or solid plans. Europe was their dream to live careless and free. Until one of them started to change and did a murderous attack in Turku, Finland.
By following two friends of the attacker, the film widens the world behind headlines. It looks at the feeling of emptiness and psyche of one generation of young Moroccan men.
Cross Country
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Einari Paakkanen
- Screenwriters
- Einari Paakkanen
- Producers
- Elina Pohjola
- Release year
- 2019
- SES grant
- 100 000 €
- Budget
- 200 000 €
- Production companies
- Pohjola-filmi Oy
In 2015, the International Cross-Country Skiing School was founded in Helsinki. The school helps recently arrived immigrant children to adapt to the culture of Finland and encourages the children to go outside instead of staying indoors during the winter.
The Hypnotist
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Arthur Franck
- Screenwriters
- Arthur Franck
- Producers
- Oskar Forstén
- Premiere
- 8.2.2019
- SES grant
- 120 000 €
- Budget
- 251 000 €
- Production companies
- Franckforstén Oy
- Distribution companies
- Franckforstén Oy
In 1980, Finland’s most famous hypnotist Olavi Hakasalo, a.k.a Olliver Hawk, was put on trial accused of fraud. His mission in life had been to spread the gospel of the power of suggestion, and he was willing to risk everything to become a player of political influence. But in the corridors of power, with a nation’s destiny at stake, an eccentric showman sitting on too many secrets is considered a liability.
Northern Travelogues
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Kira Jääskeläinen
- Screenwriters
- Kira Jääskeläinen
- Producers
- Jouko Aaltonen
- Release year
- 2019
- SES grant
- 83 000 €
- Budget
- 194 000 €
- Production companies
- Illume Ltd. Oy
In 1917 Finnish explorer, author and archeologist Sakari Pälsi travelled to north-eastern Siberia. The two years long expedition birthed a unique documentary film, a travelogue and correspondence with his family at home. A hundred years after Pälsi’s expedition, director Kira Jääskeläinen follows his footsteps to the Bering strait of her dreams.
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
The Arab Spring in Finland
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Matti Reinikka
- Screenwriters
- Matti Reinikka
- Producers
- Matti Reinikka
- Release year
- 2019
- SES grant
- 86 000 €
- Budget
- 194 000 €
- Production companies
- Elokuvaosuuskunta Siperia
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.