Feature films
The Grump’s Love Story
- Category
- Feature films
- Directors
- Mika Kaurismäki
- Screenwriters
- Sami Keski-Vähälä
- Producers
- Jukka Helle, Markus Selin, Hanna Virolainen
- Premiere
- 6.9.2024
- SES grant
- 500 000 €
- Budget
- 1 440 000 €
- Production companies
- Solar Films Oy
- Distribution companies
- Nordisk Film
My Name Is Dingo
- Category
- Feature films
- Directors
- Mari Rantasila
- Screenwriters
- Hanna Leivonniemi
- Producers
- Marko Talli, Anni Pänkäälä
- Premiere
- 25.12.2024
- SES grant
- 635 000 €
- Budget
- 1 750 000 €
- Production companies
- Yellow Film & TV
- Distribution companies
- Nordisk Film
Hayflower, Quiltshoe and the Chicken
- Category
- Feature films
- Directors
- Reetta Aalto
- Screenwriters
- Tiina Nopola, Sinikka Nopola, Emma Nopola, Lenka Hellstedt
- Producers
- Anni Pänkäälä
- Premiere
- 16.2.2024
- SES grant
- 600 000 €
- Budget
- 1 727 000 €
- Production companies
- Yellow Film & TV
- Distribution companies
- SF Studios Oy
Hayflower starts her summer holiday on a badminton camp which is ruined by Cynthia, a runaway chicken. Quiltshoe makes a new friend, Anita, who, to everyone’s surprise, turns out to be a chicken. Under the leadership of constables Bellybutton and Goggleclock, a big chicken hunt is launched.
Kevlar Soul
- International co-production SE-NO-FI
- Category
- Feature films
- Directors
- Maria Eriksson-Hecht
- Screenwriters
- Maria Eriksson-Hecht, Pelle Rådström
- Producers
- Misha Jaari, Mark Lwoff, Lizette Jonjic, Ronny Fritsche, Verona Meier
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 150 000 €
- Budget
- 2 040 000 €
- Production companies
- Oy Bufo Ab
- Distribution companies
- B-Plan Distribution
Teenage brothers Alex and Robin are intertwined, symbiotic, as if magnetically bound to one another. That is, until Alex falls in love with Ines. His newfound infatuation shatters their protective symbiosis, sending Robin into freefall. When Robin gets convicted for a felony, Alex blames himself for naively letting his first love distract him from his responsibility for his brother, and pours all his efforts into saving Robin. But can you save someone who doesn’t want to be saved? And is it, deep down, what Alex truly wants?
After Us, the Flood
- Category
- Feature films
- Directors
- Arto Halonen
- Screenwriters
- Ossi Hakala
- Producers
- Arto Halonen
- Premiere
- 5.12.2024
- SES grant
- 800 000 €
- Budget
- 1 600 000 €
- Production companies
- Art Films production AFP Oy
- Distribution companies
- Storyhill Oy
In 2064, the world is on the verge of destruction. The UN has developed a form of time travel: a person’s memories and personality can be transmitted to the past, to who they were at the moment of conception. Henrik, brilliant but narcissistic physicist is chosen for a mission so he can publish his blueprint of a fusion reactor that can prevent climate change from ever happening. But something goes wrong, and Henrik is born in the wrong body and has to learn humility while living his new life as a boy he used to torment as a child.
Paranoia
- Category
- Feature films
- Directors
- Kari Vidø
- Screenwriters
- Birgitte Lorentzen, Henrik Kristensen
- Producers
- Aleksi Hyvärinen, Julie Rix Bomholt, Mia Elvstrøm Myrälf
- Premiere
- 15.3.2024
- SES grant
- 165 000 €
- Budget
- 2 369 000 €
- Production companies
- Don Films Oy
- Distribution companies
- SF Studios Oy
After a near death experience Lulu ends up at the hospital and from that moment, everything changes in Lulu’s life. Lulu has a feeling that someone or something is after her. At school Lulu bumps into the infamous yet strangely captivating Mads. According to himself, Mads can see dead people including a girl attached to Lulu. A so-called bonded phantom. But does the girl really exist – and if yes, what does she want?
Butterflies
- Category
- Feature films
- Directors
- Jenni Toivoniemi
- Screenwriters
- Anna Brotkin
- Producers
- Miia Haavisto
- Premiere
- 27.9.2024
- SES grant
- 880 000 €
- Budget
- 1 562 000 €
- Production companies
- Tekele Productions Oy
- Distribution companies
- SF Studios Oy
Siiri, a hardworking millennial, wants to be successful in her job as the advisor to the Minister of Economic Affairs. She craves a promotion. Siiri’s job takes her and the hard-to-handle minister, an unpredictable eccentric boss lady, to a big tango festival in a small Finnish town. Siiri’s father Petri, a former tango artist and an overly optimistic middle-aged man, wants to make himself useful to Siiri while trying to hide the fact that he himself is homeless, bankrupt and finally at his wits end.
Over the course of one summer weekend both Siiri’s and Petri’s facade comes tumbling down but the tango keeps going on in the sweet Finnish summer night.
Butterflies is the second feature by director Jenni Toivoniemi, an award-winning director and scriptwriter, and the debut feature by scriptwriter Anna Brotkin, best known for all three seasons of Aikuiset (2019–2022), a hit comedy series.
Never Alone
- Category
- Feature films
- Directors
- Klaus Härö
- Screenwriters
- Klaus Härö, Jimmy Karlsson
- Producers
- Ilkka Matila
- Premiere
- 17.1.2025
- SES grant
- 1 000 000 €
- Budget
- 4 112 000 €
- Production companies
- MRP Matila Röhr Productions
- Distribution companies
- Nordisk Film
In the crucible of 1942, amid Finland’s uneasy alliance with Nazi Germany against the Soviet Union, an elderly Jewish man becomes the beacon of hope. His relentless quest to defy the shadows of history by shielding Jewish refugees from the tenacious grip of the Gestapo ignites a high-stakes battle against time and tyranny.
The Summer Book
- International co-production UK-FI
- Category
- Feature films
- Directors
- Charles McDowell
- Screenwriters
- Robert Jones
- Producers
- Aleksi Bardy, Helen Vinogradov
- Premiere
- 31.1.2025
- SES grant
- 200 000 €
- Budget
- 4 700 000 €
- Production companies
- Helsinki-filmi Oy
- Distribution companies
- SF Studios Oy
The Summer Book is an adaptation of Tove Jansson’s much loved novel to the big screens. In The Summer Book, Tove Jansson distills the essence of the summer—its sunlight and storms—into crystalline vignettes.
Sebastian
- International co-production UK-FI-BE
- Category
- Feature films
- Directors
- Mikko Mäkelä
- Screenwriters
- Mikko Mäkelä
- Producers
- Aleksi Bardy, James Watson, Dries Phylpo, Erik Gijlins, Rosie Crear, Ciara Barry
- Premiere
- 25.10.2024
- SES grant
- 300 000 €
- Budget
- 2 675 000 €
- Production companies
- Helsinki-filmi Oy
- Distribution companies
- Cinemanse
Max, a 25-year-old aspiring writer living in London, begins a double life as a sex worker to research his debut novel.