Documentaries
In Cod We Trust
- International co-production NO-FI
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Guro Saniola Bjerk
- Screenwriters
- Guro Saniola Bjerk
- Producers
- Benedikte Bredesen, Pasi Hakkio
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 45 000 €
- Budget
- 303 000 €
- Production companies
- Wacky Tie Films
In Cod We Trust is a meditation on home and belonging. The film portrays Båtsfjord, one of the northernmost fishing villages of the world. This self-contained world, wild fish-Klondike of the north, has gathered people from all over the world to live side by side. We dive into the village, making you feel like you are there, among the warmest people with the most outstanding humor. A mosaic of people as unpredictable as the weather and sea surrounding them.
D is for Distance
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Chris Petit
- Screenwriters
- Chris Petit
- Producers
- Mika Taanila, Jussi Eerola
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 111 500 €
- Budget
- 216 000 €
- Production companies
- Elokuvayhtiö Testifilmi Oy
D is for Distance is a montage of contemporary footage, archive and cinema history, creating an inquiry into the age of post-truth and how one young man’s illness became representative of the woes of the world and how he triumphed against adversity to produce his vision through singular paintings that are a result of his countless ‘trips’ into the other world.
All the Light That Remains
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Moona Pennanen
- Screenwriters
- Moona Pennanen
- Producers
- Ida Karoskoski
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 47 300 €
- Budget
- 100 000 €
- Production companies
- Illume Ltd. Oy
All the Light That Remains introduces the old mining village and seasonal worker Oleksandr, who arrives in Finland from Ukraine and lives in an in-between state, waiting for the end of the war. All the Light That Remains tells a poetic story about the village of Mätäsvaara, located in North Karelia, near the eastern border. It is a former mining village whose history has been forgotten. Through Oleksandr, who arrives to work in the area, the history of the village and the question hovering over the future of the mine begin to open up.
Paradise in Hel
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Mika Mattila
- Screenwriters
- Mika Mattila, Nino Poppius, Dylan Pashley
- Producers
- Axel Högström, Satu Majava
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 130 000 €
- Budget
- 541 000 €
- Production companies
- Parad Media Oy
The documentary series Paradise in Hel tells the story of mystic Ior Bock, the mythology he told, and the people who followed him. The series weaves together the three timelines: Ior’s own tragic life-story from beginning to end, the rise and fall of the Bock-Saga cult born in Goa in the 1980’s, and the rebirth of the Saga in modern times–as well as the followers’ attempts to prove its authenticity. The overarching theme of the series is new-age spiritualism and the innate human desire for connection and belief.
Perstuntuma
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Peter Lindholm
- Screenwriters
- Peter Lindholm
- Producers
- Mika Ritalahti, Niko Ritalahti
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 167 000 €
- Budget
- 250 000 €
- Production companies
- Silva Mysterium Oy
Grains of Paradise
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Jenni Kivistö, Jussi Rastas
- Screenwriters
- Jenni Kivistö, Jussi Rastas
- Producers
- Ella Ruohonen
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 147 000 €
- Budget
- 500 000 €
- Production companies
- Väki Films Oy
Riding with Death
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Nina Forsman, Sakari Suuronen
- Screenwriters
- Nina Forsman, Sakari Suuronen
- Producers
- Markku Tuurna
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 156 000 €
- Budget
- 281 000 €
- Production companies
- Filmimaa Oy
Riding with Death is a documentary film about the hidden social and emotional impacts of Tuberculosis. In this poetic film, family secrets are revealed, using unseen archives, contemporary observational cinema and dramatized expressive scenes. In order to save children from a fatal infection, they were isolated as newborn and taken into a special institution called Christmas Seal Home. That period of detachment was never talked about in the family, but left permanent scars in the children’s emotional life.
The Last Misfits by The Golden River
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Juho-Pekka Tanskanen
- Screenwriters
- Juho-Pekka Tanskanen
- Producers
- Isabella Karhu
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 53 000 €
- Budget
- 195 000 €
- Production companies
- Danish Bear Productions Oy
The Last Misftis by The Golden River follows the human fates of a 150-year-old gold prospector community in the distant Lapland wilderness, beyond telephone networks. Their peaceful life comes to an end when a new law forces them to abandon their way of living. Depicted through painting-like visual expression, this warm, bittersweet, and universal story tells about the only permanent thing there is: change.
The Helsinki Effect
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Arthur Franck
- Screenwriters
- Arthur Franck
- Producers
- Sandra Enkvist, Arthur Franck
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 160 000 €
- Budget
- 363 000 €
- Production companies
- Polygraf Oy
Alma – Life Must Be Beautiful
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Pamela Tola
- Screenwriters
- Pamela Tola
- Producers
- Oskari Huttu
- Premiere
- 15.3.2024
- Production companies
- Lucy Loves Drama
- Distribution companies
- Cinemanse