Documentaries
Beard
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Kristiina Karsten, Otso Reunanen, Silja Salmi
- Screenwriters
- Otso Reunanen, Silja Salmi, Kristiina Karsten
- Producers
- Silja Salmi, Otso Reunanen
- Release year
- 2024
- SES grant
- 15 000 €
- Budget
- 40 000 €
- Production companies
- Tuotantoyhtiö Opetuselokuvat Oy
Middle-aged priest Late Mäntylä has realized that having a beard allows them to reflect their inner self more authentically through their outward appearance. Makeup artist Kata Launonen has offered to show Late how to create one. The afternoon spent in the beauty salon represents the culmination of Late’s life-long journey of becoming themself.
The Making of a Japanese
- International co-production US-JP-FI-FR
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Ema Ryan Yamazaki
- Screenwriters
- Ema Ryan Yamazaki
- Producers
- Eric Nyari, Outi Rousu, Luc Martin-Goussat
- Premiere
- 5.4.2024
- SES grant
- 23 000 €
- Budget
- 504 000 €
- Production companies
- Pystymetsä Oy
- Distribution companies
- Pirkanmaan elokuvakeskus
Intimately following 1st and 6th graders at a public elementary school in Tokyo, we observe kids learning the traits necessary to become part of Japanese society.
How to Please
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Elina Talvensaari
- Screenwriters
- Elina Talvensaari
- Producers
- Jussi Rantamäki, Emilia Haukka
- Release year
- 2023
- SES grant
- 40 000 €
- Budget
- 78 000 €
- Production companies
- Elokuvayhtiö Aamu
In How to Please, Iraqi Wed Al-Asadi tells the story of how he got stuck in the Finnish asylum system. He tries his best to get through the bureaucratic maze, but realizes getting out becomes even more difficult than getting in.
Magnifica: Passive Intruder
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Ville Koskinen
- Screenwriters
- Ville Koskinen
- Producers
- Sandra Enkvist
- Release year
- 2024
- SES grant
- 70 000 €
- Budget
- 142 000 €
- Production companies
- Polygraf Oy
Magnifica: Passive Intruder is a film about the coexistence of Finnish people in their summer houses and an uninvited visitor called Pectinatella Magnifica. The arrival of the green and slimy blobs among the safe and familiar environment brings uncomfortable feelings in the self-indulgent middle-class. Some react in astonishment and attempt to annihilate the strange creature, but others have a less prejudiced approach.
Jope ite
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Marko Talli
- Screenwriters
- Mika Räinä, Nikke Bagge
- Producers
- Marko Talli
- Premiere
- 10.2.2023
- Production companies
- Yellow Film & TV
- Distribution companies
- SF Studios Oy
Children of War and Peace
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Ville Suhonen
- Screenwriters
- Ville Suhonen
- Producers
- Jouko Aaltonen
- Premiere
- 22.3.2024
- SES grant
- 105 000 €
- Budget
- 173 000 €
- Production companies
- Illume Ltd. Oy
- Distribution companies
- Pirkanmaan elokuvakeskus
Children of War and Peace is an archival documentary film that looks into nationalist education and the roles assigned to children which were directly guided by the state and authorities. All activities were aimed at military readiness for when the time comes. Children and young people were expected to be obedient, loyal, and honest. Their own needs and emotions were to be suppressed.
Home and Away
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Arto Halonen
- Screenwriters
- Arto Halonen
- Producers
- Arto Halonen
- Premiere
- 1.9.2023
- SES grant
- 89 000 €
- Budget
- 297 000 €
- Production companies
- Art Films production AFP Oy
Afterwar
- International co-production DK-FI-XK-SE
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Birgitte Stærmose
- Screenwriters
- Birgitte Stærmose
- Producers
- Lise Lense-Møller, Mark Lwoff, Misha Jaari
- Release year
- 2024
- SES grant
- 35 000 €
- Budget
- 903 000 €
- Production companies
- Oy Bufo Ab
In the murky streets of postwar Pristina 2009, children sell cigarettes and whisper tales of loss and hope. Now ten years later as young adults, they still fight to survive at the bottom of a society that continues to struggle with the trauma of war. For these young people, the dream of emigrating to another country or religion alone offers purpose and escape. A collective portrait of a condition, a state of being set in a world now marked by a (pandemic and) new devastating war in Europe.
Making Art In My Dreams
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Leena Jääskeläinen
- Screenwriters
- Leena Jääskeläinen
- Producers
- Marko Tandefelt
- Release year
- 2024
- SES grant
- 60 000 €
- Budget
- 123 000 €
- Production companies
- Osuuskunta Animaatiokopla
What do artists dream about? Repressed androids, trees full of panthers, surreal cities – their work. And a lot of times their work is influenced by dreams. A theremin player, a painter, and a poet share their inner worlds in a wild virtual reality experience.
Varado
- International co-production FR-FI
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Nicos Argillet, Stèphane Correa
- Screenwriters
- Nicos Argillet, Stèphane Correa
- Producers
- Kaarle Aho, Christian Popp
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 35 000 €
- Budget
- 278 000 €
- Production companies
- Making Movies Oy
At the heart of the Amazon rainforest, at the border between French Guiana and Suriname, clandestine gold panners destroy the rainforest in the hope of a better life.