Documentaries
The Happy Worker
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- John Webster
- Screenwriters
- Eveliina Kantola, John Webster
- Producers
- Marko Talli
- Premiere
- 6.5.2022
- SES grant
- 190 500 €
- Budget
- 750 000 €
- Production companies
- Yellow Film & TV
- Distribution companies
- SF Studios Oy
The workplace is broken. The Happy Worker looks behind the sleek office facades to show the ridiculously inefficient and wasteful theatre that is the modern workplace. A silenced majority are deeply unhappy, cynical or burned out. Most affected are Millennials and Gen-z’s. What are the psychological needs that make people happy and motivated in their work, and why are so many managers terrible at their job? After Covid work will change, but do we want to go back to business as usual?
The Mission
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Tania Anderson
- Screenwriters
- Tania Anderson
- Producers
- Isabella Karhu, Juho-Pekka Tanskanen
- Premiere
- 5.8.2022
- SES grant
- 144 000 €
- Budget
- 255 000 €
- Production companies
- Danish Bear Productions Oy
After receiving a “call to serve” from God, four American teenagers undergo rigorous preparation in order to travel to the other side of the world to attempt to convert some of Europe’s most non-religious people, Finns, to the Mormon Church of Latter-Day Saints. The Mission witnesses the journey of Kai, Tyler, McKenna and Megan s they leave their homes for the first time and embark upon the most emotionally, physically and spiritually challenging period of their life.
The Kind Stranger
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Sini Hormio, Anu Silfverberg
- Screenwriters
- Sini Hormio, Ari Matikainen, Anu Silfverberg
- Producers
- Ari Matikainen
- Release year
- 2023
- SES grant
- 110 000 €
- Budget
- 334 000 €
- Production companies
- Kinocompany Oy
Manu (Finland), Emma (Britain) and Charlotte (US) are ASMR artists, part of a worldwide community of millions of people. They make popular Youtube videos that imitate human connection: gentle whispers, tender hand movements, caring role plays. For Manu, the videos are a way of finding his place in the world. Charlotte sees herself doing ”service”, and Emma looks at the camera as a mother. They all were once helped by the ASMR community, and now they want to give something back.
People We Come Across
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Mia Halme
- Screenwriters
- Mia Halme
- Producers
- Marianne Mäkelä, Liisa Karpo
- Release year
- 2021
- SES grant
- 164 270 €
- Budget
- 313 760 €
- Production companies
- napafilms oy
Year 2050 super bacteria will kill more people than cancer. The global problem is caused by reckless use of antibiotics. 800 tourists travel to Benin, Africa, to take part in special medical research aiming to find vaccination against diarrhea. A disease now treated by antibiotics and causing the super bacteria to spread in emerging speed. Head of the research is Finnish doctor, Anu Kantele, who has declared war on overuse of antibiotics, and on super bacteria.
Fragments of Humanity
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Elli Rintala
- Screenwriters
- Ari Matikainen, Elli Rintala
- Producers
- Ari Matikainen
- Release year
- 2022
- SES grant
- 130 000 €
- Budget
- 236 000 €
- Production companies
- Kinocompany Oy
Between war and peace there is a set of people applying themselves to solving the past conflicts and thereby trying to prevent the new ones ever to start. One of them was a Finnish forensic dentist Helena Ranta. Her task for the past twenty years was to recognize the victims of war in different conflict zones around the world and in that way to advocate for the thought that even in war there must be rules.
Kids Cup
- International co-production NO-FI
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Line Hatland
- Screenwriters
- Line Hatland
- Producers
- Ingvil Giske, Ari Matikainen
- Premiere
- 26.8.2022
- SES grant
- 22 000 €
- Budget
- 642 000 €
- Production companies
- Kinocompany Oy
- Distribution companies
- Kinocompany Oy
Every summer 30 000 children from about 50 countries get together to pursue their passion for football at Norway Cup. A variety of ethnicities, cultures and backgrounds are united for one huge tournament, a unique setting where young people from all over the world meet and compete on equal premises.
Kids Cup is a warm, humorous and thought-provoking feelgood documentary, involving homesickness, hormones, disappointment, victory, friendship, and most importantly; the feeling of loss and how to overcome it.
Raise the Bar
- International co-production IS-FI
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Guðjón Ragnarsson
- Screenwriters
- Guðjón Ragnarsson
- Producers
- Margrét Jónasdóttir, Outi Rousu
- Premiere
- 22.10.2021
- SES grant
- 32 000 €
- Budget
- 372 000 €
- Production companies
- Pystymetsä Oy
- Distribution companies
- Pirkanmaan elokuvakeskus
Empowering 8–12-year-old girls’ basketball team to change a culture inside the basketball movement.
The Light Snatcher
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Charlotte Airas
- Screenwriters
- Charlotte Airas, Kimmo Kohtamäki
- Producers
- Kaarle Aho
- Release year
- 2021
- SES grant
- 55 000 €
- Budget
- 115 000 €
- Production companies
- Making Movies Oy
A short documentary about light.
The Spoils of Tamminiemi
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Arthur Franck
- Screenwriters
- Arthur Franck
- Producers
- Oskar Forstén
- Release year
- 2021
- SES grant
- 150 000 €
- Budget
- 288 000 €
- Production companies
- Polygraf Oy
Finland 1981. A group of the most skilled and respected political journalists in the country decide to break the most important rule: not to tell the truth. The Spoils of Tamminiemi is a dramatic but also comical documentary about Finland in the cold war era, and about the book that changed everything.
Sorrow Tamers
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Mina Laamo
- Screenwriters
- Mina Laamo
- Producers
- Mina Laamo
- Premiere
- 25.2.2022
- SES grant
- 91 750 €
- Budget
- 190 000 €
- Production companies
- Koko Production
- Distribution companies
- Pirkanmaan elokuvakeskus
Sorrow Tamers is an art-house-documentary film about individuals, who have decided to face the sorrow as it exists to them. Sorrow always shakes up the life we used to know, and everything is changed. Changed how? You do not know, unless you fearlessly step into the world of grief and, without fearing the change, step out in due course as a new, transformed version of yourself.
Shot on film, the short episodes of individual stories form a larger story of the finite nature of life and the intrinsic need of human beings to reach out to each other, even when it is not possible. Life is learning how to let go before death, the ultimate momentum of letting go.