Documentaries
Strangers in the Dark
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Jenni Pystynen, Perttu Inkilä
- Screenwriters
- Jenni Pystynen, Perttu Inkilä
- Producers
- Oona Saari
- Release year
- 2023
- SES grant
- 67 000 €
- Budget
- 113 000 €
- Production companies
- Illume Ltd. Oy
A love-hungry glow-worm has the last week of his life to find a partner in the dark, but the task becomes impossible when man wants to illuminate the night.
Every Tom, Dick and Urpo
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Karoliina Gröndahl
- Screenwriters
- Karoliina Gröndahl
- Producers
- Marianne Mäkelä
- Release year
- 2023
- SES grant
- 54 000 €
- Budget
- 113 000 €
- Production companies
- napafilms oy
How to Fix the World?
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Jouko Aaltonen
- Screenwriters
- Jouko Aaltonen, Pontus Purokuru
- Producers
- Jouko Aaltonen
- Premiere
- 28.3.2023
- SES grant
- 120 000 €
- Budget
- 208 000 €
- Production companies
- Illume Ltd. Oy
- Distribution companies
- Pirkanmaan elokuvakeskus
A handbook of direct action where squatters, opponents of globalization and anarchists tell their stories. The world was fixed in the 1990s and 2000s, sometimes more successfully, sometimes not so much. By using a lot of archive material, the film connects earlier generations of activists to today’s climate movements. Direct action will be important in the future too. If there will be one.
JVG-elokuva: Vuodet ollu tuulisii
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Taito Kawata
- Screenwriters
- Lasse Järvi, Miika Särmäkari
- Producers
- Seppo Kerkelä, Anton Molander, Lasse Järvi
- Premiere
- 25.3.2022
- Production companies
- Cocoa Play
- Distribution companies
- SF Studios Oy
Phantoms of the Sierra Madre
- International coproduction NO-FI
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Håvard Bustnes
- Screenwriters
- Lars K. Andersen
- Producers
- Christian Aune Falch, Liisa Karpo, Marianne Mäkelä
- Release year
- 2024
- SES grant
- 53 000 €
- Budget
- 772 000 €
- Production companies
- napafilms oy
The Land of Dreams – Sweden Revisited
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Kirsi Nevanti
- Screenwriters
- Kirsi Nevanti
- Producers
- Anna J. Ljungmark, Markku Tuurna
- Release year
- 2024
- SES grant
- 35 000 €
- Budget
- 608 000 €
- Production companies
- Filmimaa Oy
We live in an era of crises – society is in crises, democracy is in crisis, and the coronavirus pandemic is yet another. Everyday we get news about the world, our country or it could even be our neighbourhood. But is this what is going on, are we the people portrayed in the news?
Hard to Break
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Anna-Maija Heinonen, Krista Moisio
- Screenwriters
- Anna-Maija Heinonen, Krista Moisio
- Producers
- Oskar Forstén
- Premiere
- 12.4.2024
- SES grant
- 165 000 €
- Budget
- 314 000 €
- Production companies
- Polygraf Oy
- Distribution companies
- Pirkanmaan elokuvakeskus
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.