Documentaries
A House Made of Splinters
- International co-production DK-FI
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Simon Lereng Wilmont
- Screenwriters
- Simon Lereng Wilmont
- Producers
- Monica Hellström, Sami Jahnukainen, Tobias Jansson
- Release year
- 2022
- SES grant
- 32 000 €
- Budget
- 713 000 €
- Production companies
- Donkey Hotel
A documentary film about an orphanage in the war-torn Eastern Ukraine. The film is a tragic and beautiful story about the long-term consequences of the prolonged war in Eastern Ukraine.
Ultras
- International coproduction SE-FI
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Ragnhild Ekner
- Screenwriters
- Ragnhild Ekner
- Producers
- Tobias Janson, Pasi Hakkio, Niina Virtanen
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 30 000 €
- Budget
- 744 000 €
- Production companies
- Wacky Tie Films
Ultras – the heart and soul of football stadiums around the globe. The supporters that will do anything for the team and yields that extra power into the game to help their team win. Ultras is not your regular sports film. Trough epic images and a cinematic mosaic of football supporters and their societal contexts around the world, we’ll portray a subculture that is widely known but yet mysterious and inaccessible for most of us.
Shepherds of the Earth – Stories from the Cradle of Humankind
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Iiris Härmä
- Screenwriters
- Iiris Härmä
- Producers
- Visa Koiso-Kanttila
- Release year
- 2022
- SES grant
- 185 000 €
- Budget
- 391 000 €
- Production companies
- Guerillafilms Ltd.
Researchers collect ancient animal stories of the indigenous tribe in Turkana – the Cradle of Humankind. Disturbingly, they find out that the relationship between the tribe and nature is far from harmonious. Who are we to say what’s right or wrong?
A People’s Radio – Ballads from a Wooded Country
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Virpi Suutari
- Screenwriters
- Virpi Suutari
- Producers
- Virpi Suutari
- Release year
- 2021
- SES grant
- 45 000 €
- Budget
- 123 000 €
- Production companies
- Euphoria Film Oy
A short documentary based on the legendary Finnish radio program where ordinary people can open up about their worries, sorrows and joys.
Captured
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Hanna Haaslahti
- Screenwriters
- Hanna Haaslahti
- Producers
- Hanna Haaslahti, Harmke Heezen
- Release year
- 2021
- SES grant
- 90 000 €
- Budget
- 196 000 €
- Production companies
- Fantomatico Oy
Captured is a participatory installation, which captures your face and creates a new identity for you in a collective scenario taking place in virtual world.
Two Forests
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Jan Ijäs
- Screenwriters
- Jan Ijäs
- Producers
- Jan Ijäs, Alf Hemming
- Release year
- 2024
- SES grant
- 27 000 €
- Budget
- 68 000 €
- Production companies
- Atalante
In 1993, a suicide guidebook (Wataru Tsurumi: The Complete Manual of Suicide) was published in Japan presenting 198 different ways to commit suicide. More than a million books have been sold to date. The book also tells the best place to kill yourself. That place (a forest) is located on the hillside of Mount Fuji and is called Aokigahara. It is also known as the Sea of Trees. Even signs have had to be put on for people who commit suicides since their bodies are a real problem in a forest that is also a popular hiking area.
The First 54 Years – An Abbreviated Manual for Military Occupation
- International coproduction IL-FR-FI-DE
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Avi Mograbi
- Screenwriters
- Avi Mograbi
- Producers
- Elina Pohjola, Leila Lyytikäinen
- Release year
- 2021
- SES grant
- 30 000 €
- Budget
- 474 000 €
- Production companies
- Citizen Jane Productions
How to succeed in an occupation for at least 53 years? Mograbi, director and narrator, builds the handbook of the perfect occupier based on testimonies from Israeli soldiers and archive footage.
Karalahti
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Juuso Syrjä
- Screenwriters
- Mika Karttunen, Joona Louhivuori
- Producers
- Jukka Helle, Ida Kallio, Rimbo Salomaa, Markus Selin
- Premiere
- 14.5.2021