Documentaries
Unelmaa kohti
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Joonas Berghäll
- Screenwriters
- Joonas Berghäll, Hannes Vartiainen
- Producers
- Joonas Berghäll
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 139 000 €
- Budget
- 490 000 €
- Production companies
- Oktober Oy
Mother of Snow Cranes
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Iiris Härmä
- Screenwriters
- Iiris Härmä
- Producers
- Visa Koiso-Kanttila
- Premiere
- 27.9.2024
- SES grant
- 110 000 €
- Budget
- 215 000 €
- Production companies
- Guerillafilms Ltd.
- Distribution companies
- Pirkanmaan elokuvakeskus
Ellen Vuosalo is an ornithologist who has become famous for her Siberian snow crane conservation work in Iran. She was born in Canada in 1931 to a family of Finnish immigrants. Today she is known in Iran by her nickname Mother of Cranes. Mother of Snow Cranes is a film about the relationship between man and nature, the meaning of life and the role of women in Western and Iranian cultures over the last hundred years.
The Labour of Pain and Joy
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Karoliina Gröndahl
- Screenwriters
- Karoliina Gröndahl
- Producers
- Kirsi Mattila
- Premiere
- 23.8.2024
- SES grant
- 129 000 €
- Budget
- 224 000 €
- Production companies
- Osuuskunta Icebreaker Productions
The birth experience affects the whole life. Two Finnish birth experts, midwife Kirsi and doula, i.e. birth support person, Anna-Riitta, work to improve birth practices and empower birth givers. Observational yet strongly cinematic, The Labour of Pain and Joy explores the personal, social and mythic levels of birth.
Pariah
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Olavi Linna
- Screenwriters
- Olavi Linna, Oskar Forstén
- Producers
- Oskar Forstén
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 129 000 €
- Budget
- 273 000 €
- Production companies
- Polygraf Oy
Pariah is a film about power and powerlessness, about truths and myths and the stuff in between and how a stubborn and resilient housewife took on the entire world to make a point.
Regina – Queen of the Ring
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Panu Suuronen
- Screenwriters
- Panu Suuronen
- Producers
- Susanna Lasarov
- Release year
- 2024
- SES grant
- 150 000 €
- Budget
- 307 000 €
- Production companies
- Aito Media Oy
Regina is a young feminist wrestler who fights men to become an international star. However, the true battle in wrestling takes place outside the ring – in the story team meetings.
Once Upon a Time in a Forest
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Virpi Suutari
- Screenwriters
- Virpi Suutari
- Producers
- Virpi Suutari
- Premiere
- 28.3.2024
- SES grant
- 160 000 €
- Budget
- 455 000 €
- Production companies
- Euphoria Film Oy
- Distribution companies
- B-Plan Distribution
Cinematic film about radical young people who are defending one of the last coniferous forest areas in Europe. It is also an unusual love story of a younger generation whose object of love is the Finnish forest.
The three main protagonists come face to face with a deeply rooted national ideology of the forest as a foundation for the nation’s economic well-being.
The documentary follows the charismatic young environmentalists for over a year as they take part in the new dynamic Forest Movement.
Carmen!
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Pihla Viitala
- Screenwriters
- Pihla Viitala
- Producers
- Elise Pietarila, Oskar Forstén
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 185 000 €
- Budget
- 403 000 €
- Production companies
- Gimmeyawallet Productions Oy
Carmen is the coming-of-age story of a resourceful girl who is passionate about dancing. This dynamic documentary follows a fearless Finnish Romany girl for seven years on her way to adulthood.
The Arctic Circle of Lust
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Markku Heikkinen
- Screenwriters
- Markku Heikkinen
- Producers
- Hannu-Pekka Vitikainen
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 163 000 €
- Budget
- 295 000 €
- Production companies
- Zone2 Pictures Oy
The Arctic Circle of Lust is about the secret sexuality of middle-aged men living in peripheral regions and the ensuing relationship and identity crises that occur when the men are caught red-handed. How does a man who has come to terms with their bisexuality learn to be truthful and faithful to themselves and their partner? Arctic Circle of Lust is an intimate and wholesome family film about regular Finnish middle-aged men, who, in various ways, face a partially unacknowledged and invisible sexual desire – bisexuality.
Hassisen Kone 40 vuotta myöhemmin
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Mika Kaurismäki
- Screenwriters
- Mika Kaurismäki, Antti Kuivalainen
- Producers
- Mika Kaurismäki, Maria Kaurismäki
- Premiere
- 17.3.2023
- SES grant
- 55 000 €
- Budget
- 143 000 €
- Production companies
- Marianna Films Oy
- Distribution companies
- Pirkanmaan elokuvakeskus
11 Underground
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Chico Pereira
- Screenwriters
- Chico Pereira
- Producers
- Kaarle Aho
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 100 000 €
- Budget
- 367 000 €
- Production companies
- Making Movies Oy
A filmmaker asks 11 young locals to lock into an old mine for 11 days in Almaden, Spain, in order to honor their grandparents mining strike of 1984.
Outside the mine villagers start demonstrating, national media arrives and the politicians and the mining company get nervous. The nostalgic tribute turns into social movement, documentary filmmaking intervenes reality, and suddenly some of the participants threaten not to leave the mine at all.