Documentaries
Dangerous Play
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Heli Sirviö
- Screenwriters
- Heli Sirviö, Erika Haavisto
- Producers
- Marko Talli, Eveliina Kantola, Erika Haavisto
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 100 000 €
- Budget
- 250 000 €
- Production companies
- Yellow Film & TV
When a young Kenyan star athlete is accused of gang rape alongside his teammate, the only person who stays by his side is his Finnish girlfriend. Together they face the destruction of their reputation and their futures, and the consequences of cancel culture, never giving up hope that their love will get them through this.
Fabulous Cow Ladies
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Mia Halme
- Screenwriters
- Mia Halme
- Producers
- Mia Halme, Mina Laamo
- Release year
- 2024
- SES grant
- 85 000 €
- Budget
- 151 000 €
- Production companies
- Sahadok Oy
Three cows – Joy, Crumb and Sweetie – live in the forest. Joy is the grandma and Crumb is its child. Sweetie is Joy’s granddaughter who was born as a surprise on the pasture. Three women take care of the cows, and the cows of the women as well. Fabulous Cow Ladies is an immersion in nature, a film about the cycle of life and importance of community. The matriarchal gang of the three veterinarians and their cows is called FCL – Fabulous Cow Ladies.
10 Letters to the Future
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- työryhmä
- Screenwriters
- Susanna Helke, Esa Illi, Anu Kuivalainen, Saara Helene Rawat, Markku Heikkinen
- Producers
- Saara Helene Rawat, Anu Kuivalainen
- Premiere
- 17.5.2024
- SES grant
- 175 000 €
- Budget
- 318 000 €
- Production companies
- Bonsaifilms
- Distribution companies
- Bonsaifilms
10 Letters to the Future is a mosaic-like documentary film, born out of a collective effort in times when everything stopped. The global reality of state of emergencies penetrated everything we had taken for granted, and many people took stock of their lives in a new light. What happened to us and what is the future we want to be heading to?
As the virus controls the world, schoolchildren start collecting letters to be encapsulated in a wooden chest built by the students, to be opened after 50 years. The documentary is a time capsule in itself.
Jasmin’s Two Homes
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Inka Achté, Hanna Karppinen
- Screenwriters
- Inka Achté, Hanna Karppinen
- Producers
- Liisa Karpo
- Release year
- 2022
- SES grant
- 30 000 €
- Budget
- 85 000 €
- Production companies
- napafilms oy
The 8-year-old Jasmin was never able to understand why people keep asking her where she is from. From Finland of course! When Jasmin’s parents finally decide to move the entire family back to their home country Somalia, Jasmin is faced with the biggest change in her life. She has to say goodbye to the familiar playgrounds in the Helsinki suburbs, as well as her best friend Maryam.
Praying for Armageddon
- International coproduction NO-FI
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Tonje Hessen Scjhei
- Screenwriters
- Tonje Hessen Scjhei
- Producers
- Christian Aune Falch, Ingrid Galadriel Aune Falch, Torstein Parelius, Kaarle Aho
- Release year
- 2023
- SES grant
- 28 000 €
- Budget
- 931 000 €
- Production companies
- Making Movies Oy
Praying for Armageddon is a political thriller that revolves around the biblical prophecy of Armageddon. The film investigates the consequences of the US Christian Zionists’ financial and political support to Israel, and features those who anticipate Doomsday and those who suffer with the results of this.
Power of the People
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Mervi Enqvist
- Screenwriters
- Mervi Enqvist
- Producers
- Essi Haukkamaa
- Release year
- 2022
- SES grant
- 122 000 €
- Budget
- 212 000 €
- Production companies
- Greenlit Productions
The film follows Laura Eklund Nhaga’s journey to find her own voice as a racialized person in Finland. Would it be through politics or art? She travels to the USA to meet Heather Booth, from Midwest Academy, and other activists to learn about organizing, and how to bring those teachings into action.
My Reality
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Milja Moilanen
- Screenwriters
- Milja Moilanen, Eveliina Pasanen
- Producers
- Elli Toivoniemi, Juha Löppönen
- Release year
- 2024
- SES grant
- 136 660 €
- Budget
- 351 000 €
- Production companies
- Tuffi Films Oy
Mira, Eevis and Meiju are reality TV stars, searching for acceptance, but become persecuted by the general public for their behaviour instead. Resurfacing is hard in the society, that aims to categorize us as either winners or losers.
African Moot
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Shameela Seedat
- Screenwriters
- Shameela Seedat
- Producers
- Francois Verster, Shameela Seedat, Don Edkins, Tiny Mungwe, Venla Hellstedt, Juha Löppönen
- Release year
- 2022
- SES grant
- 31 880 €
- Production companies
- Tuffi Films Oy
Vika!
- International coproduction PL-FI-DE-IT
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Agnieszka Zwiefka
- Screenwriters
- Agnieszka Zwiefka
- Producers
- Katarzyna Ślesicka, Anna Stylińska, Heino Deckert, Outi Rousu, Elena Filippi
- Release year
- 2023
- SES grant
- 35 000 €
- Budget
- 623 000 €
- Production companies
- Pystymetsä Oy
Vikais the oldest DJ in Poland and probably in the world. This 80-year-old grandma of four is playing in Warsaw clubs for young people and, despite increasing health problems, keeps saying that “80 is the new 40”. Before becoming a DJ, Vika worked for 30 years at a juvenile prison helping young criminals. Surviving World War II, two husbands, raising children and working double jobs at the same time, Vika was always a fighter. And today she has to win the last battle, with her aging body and family that would like to see Vika in a more traditional role of a grandma. But Vika doesn’t know how to bake cakes, and together with her colorful group of friends refuses to be closed in her apartment. She wants to dance.
The New Greatness Case
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Anna Shisova
- Screenwriters
- Anna Shisova, Iikka Vehkalahti
- Producers
- Anonymous Russian Producer
- Premiere
- 10.6.2022
- SES grant
- 20 800 €
- Budget
- 299 000 €
- Production companies
- IV Films Oy
- Distribution companies
- Pirkanmaan elokuvakeskus
Anya and Masha were ordinary teenagers who dreamed of making life in Russia better. They were arrested and incarcerated on fabricated charges of extremism and are facing a lengthy prison sentence. Their story became symbolic of the situation of the ruthless oppression of all forms of opposition in Russia today.