Feature films
Aurora
- Category
- Feature films
- Directors
- Miia Tervo
- Screenwriters
- Miia Tervo
- Producers
- Max Malka
- Premiere
- 25.1.2019
- SES grant
- 750 000 €
- Budget
- 1 190 000 €
- Production companies
- Dionysos Films Oy
- Distribution companies
- Nordisk Film
One night at a hot-dog stand in Finnish Lapland Aurora, a party animal, meets Iranian Darian. Darian needs to marry a Finnish woman to get an asylum for himself and his daughter. Aurora turns him down, as she plans to move to Norway, away from her shit life. However, after meeting his sweet daughter, she agrees to help him. As Aurora introduces numerous women to Darian, the two of them grow close.
Teräsleidit
- Category
- Feature films
- Directors
- Pamela Tola
- Screenwriters
- Pamela Tola, Aleksi Bardy
- Producers
- Aleksi Bardy, Dome Karukoski, Sirkka Rautiainen
- Premiere
- 3.1.2020
- SES grant
- 850 000 €
- Budget
- 1 230 000 €
- Production companies
- Helsinki-filmi Oy
- Distribution companies
- SF Studios Oy
Inkeri, 75, has hit her husband on the head with a solid iron frying pan and is planning to bury him in their garden. Before facing the rest of her life in prison, there may yet be a moment left to really live. Inkeri makes her sisters Sylvi and Raili join her on a trip to the Koli National Park. Will Inkeri find in her that free young woman who desired a feminist revolution in the 70s?
Games People Play
- Category
- Feature films
- Directors
- Jenni Toivoniemi
- Screenwriters
- Jenni Toivoniemi
- Producers
- Venla Hellstedt, Elli Toivoniemi
- Premiere
- 21.8.2020
- SES grant
- 860 000 €
- Budget
- 1 361 000 €
- Production companies
- Tuffi Films Oy
- Distribution companies
- Nordisk Film
A group of old friends gathers to celebrate Mitzi’s surprise birthday party over a nostalgic weekend at an idyllic seaside villa – just like they used to do as teenagers. Familiar surroundings and the old rituals get to the core of the group and make them forget their adulthood. Revelations, not meant to harm the balance, make them reassess their past as well as their present.
Forest Giant
- Category
- Feature films
- Directors
- Ville Jankeri
- Screenwriters
- Ville Jankeri, Timo Turunen
- Producers
- Rimbo Salomaa, Jukka Helle, Markus Selin
- Premiere
- 11.9.2020
- SES grant
- 752 500 €
- Budget
- 1 415 000 €
- Production companies
- Solar Films Oy
- Distribution companies
- Nordisk Film
Pasi returns to his childhood town, asked to reconfigure the local forest factory. With a child on the way with his upper-class wife, Pasi sees an opportunity – this is his ticket to climb the professional ladder in the company. On arrival, he bumps into his childhood friend Janne, who works in the factory he is about to downsize. Pasi begins to struggle with the fact that he is supposed to care for the profits – not for the people.
Helene
- Category
- Feature films
- Directors
- Antti J. Jokinen
- Screenwriters
- Marko Leino, Antti J. Jokinen
- Producers
- Antti J. Jokinen, Mikko Tenhunen
- Premiere
- 17.1.2020
- SES grant
- 800 000 €
- Budget
- 2 090 000 €
- Production companies
- Cinematic Finland
- Distribution companies
- Nordisk Film
In 1913, Helene Schjerfbeck was a forgotten artist, living together with her elderly mother in the Finnish countryside. She had kept painting for passion only, not for glory. An art dealer decides to organise a huge solo exhibition for Helene and introduces her to Einar Reuter, a passionate admirer of Helene’s work. She falls deeply in love with him, despite their age difference. Through the tragic relationship, Helene grows more independent and becomes a stronger artist than ever before.
One Half of Me
- Category
- Feature films
- Directors
- Tuukka Temonen
- Screenwriters
- Olga Temonen, Tuukka Temonen
- Producers
- Olga Temonen, Tuukka Temonen
- Premiere
- 13.3.2020
- Production companies
- Optipari Oy
- Distribution companies
- Kuusan Kino
Eden
- Category
- Feature films
- Directors
- Ulla Heikkilä
- Screenwriters
- Ulla Heikkilä
- Producers
- Miia Haavisto
- Premiere
- 7.8.2020
- SES grant
- 765 000 €
- Budget
- 1 250 000 €
- Production companies
- Tekele Productions Oy
- Distribution companies
- Nordisk Film
Eden is a coming-of-age film about a Protestant Confirmation camp on a summer’s week, set in the archipelago of Helsinki. Aliisa is the intellectually confident non-believer, Jenna is the queen bee and Panu is the scared bird. The experience of these teenagers is affected by Tiina, a young and eager priest. Eden is a film about group identities and about conforming to the values of others.
The Wait
- Category
- Feature films
- Directors
- Aku Louhimies
- Screenwriters
- Inka Kallén, Aku Louhimies
- Producers
- Andrei Alén, Kaarina Gould, Aku Louhimies
- Premiere
- 1.4.2022
- SES grant
- 290 000 €
- Budget
- 1 093 000 €
- Production companies
- Backman & Hoderoffn Oy
- Distribution companies
- Aurora Studios
The idyllic and secluded Finnish archipelago. The pandemic soars across the world. Elli’s world trembles as her husband’s old friend arrives at the island.
The Wait is a psychological drama about friendship, passion and the art of waiting. The film is a modern interpretation of Juhani Aho’s classic novel The Priest’s Wife.
Ski Girls
- Category
- Feature films
- Directors
- Marja Pyykkö
- Screenwriters
- Misa Palander
- Producers
- Liisa Penttilä-Asikainen, Pete Eklund
- Premiere
- 10.2.2023
- SES grant
- 690 550 €
- Budget
- 1 330 000 €
- Production companies
- Kaiho Republic Oy
- Distribution companies
- Nordisk Film
Bad Women
- Category
- Feature films
- Directors
- Niklas Lindgren
- Screenwriters
- Karoliina Lindgren, Niklas Lindgren
- Producers
- Miia Haavisto
- Premiere
- 25.2.2022
- SES grant
- 858 730 €
- Budget
- 1 370 000 €
- Production companies
- Tekele Productions Oy
- Distribution companies
- SF Studios Oy