Feature films
Stormskerry Maja
- Category
- Feature films
- Directors
- Tiina Lymi
- Screenwriters
- Tiina Lymi
- Producers
- Jukka Helle, Markus Selin, Hanna Virolainen
- Premiere
- 19.1.2024
- SES grant
- 1 000 000 €
- Budget
- 3 829 000 €
- Production companies
- Solar Films Oy
- Distribution companies
- Nordisk Film
Maja and her husband Janne move their family to a barren and remote island of Stormskerry. Their everyday life on the island is relentless hard work for survival. Maja, who has grown in a world of old values, becomes aware of the advent of a new era: a woman can have agency instead of being a mere bystander.
Stormskerry Maja is a life story of an extraordinary woman who experiences the kind of love that every human being should have. A love that transcends the boundaries of death.
Orenda
- Category
- Feature films
- Directors
- Pirjo Honkasalo
- Screenwriters
- Pirkko Saisio
- Producers
- Mark Lwoff, Misha Jaari
- Premiere
- 17.4.2025
- SES grant
- 850 000 €
- Budget
- 1 820 000 €
- Production companies
- Oy Bufo Ab
- Distribution companies
- B-Plan Distribution
Challenging some of the most fascinating questions of our inexplicable existence, the story of Orenda unravels on a small lighthouse island in a remote archipelago, where two women and their mutual past is about to collide.
Nora, a successful opera singer, arrives on the island as her husband has committed suicide and had wished to be buried there. Natalia, a priest estranged from the church, has isolated herself on the same island and becomes overtly disrupted from Nora’s presence. Their mutual past, the deceased man, is something they need to face together, if they can only find the right words to do it.
The women offer each other both guilt and redemption, all bound by love, faith, and violence – the eternal trinity where one element cannot exist without the other.
Exploring the themes of guilt and grace, the destinies of two women intertwine into a tense emotional thriller set on a remote island. The new film by highly established director Pirjo Honkasalo stars a recent Golden Globe nominee Alma Pöysti and Pirkko Saisio.
Death Is a Problem for the Living
- Category
- Feature films
- Directors
- Teemu Nikki
- Screenwriters
- Teemu Nikki
- Producers
- Jani Pösö
- Premiere
- 22.9.2023
- SES grant
- 175 000 €
- Budget
- 955 000 €
- Production companies
- It's Alive Films
- Distribution companies
- Scandinavian Film Distribution
Häät ennen hautajaisia
- Category
- Feature films
- Directors
- Kari Ketonen
- Screenwriters
- Leo Viirret, Kari Ketonen
- Producers
- Marko Talli, Ilona Vehmas
- Premiere
- 23.9.2022
- SES grant
- 26 400 €
- Production companies
- Yellow Film & TV
- Distribution companies
- Nelonen Media
Fallen Leaves
- Category
- Feature films
- Directors
- Aki Kaurismäki
- Screenwriters
- Aki Kaurismäki
- Producers
- Aki Kaurismäki
- Premiere
- 15.9.2023
- SES grant
- 650 000 €
- Budget
- 1 398 000 €
- Production companies
- Sputnik Oy
- Distribution companies
- B-Plan Distribution
The film tells the story of Ansa, a supermarket shelf-stocker on a zero-hour contract, later a recyclable plastic sorter, and Holappa, a sandblaster, an alcoholic, later an ex-alcoholic, whose paths have accidentally crossed and who, despite adversity and misunderstandings, try to build some kind of relationship on the harsher side of the welfare state.
The Mushroom Trip
- Category
- Feature films
- Directors
- JP Siili
- Screenwriters
- JP Siili
- Producers
- Severi Koivusalo, JP Siili
- Premiere
- 30.9.2022
- Production companies
- Aurora Studios
- Distribution companies
- Aurora Studios
On Thin Ice
- Category
- Feature films
- Directors
- Aleksi Mäkelä
- Screenwriters
- Mikko Kouki, Petja Lähde
- Producers
- Rimbo Salomaa, Jukka Helle, Markus Selin
- Premiere
- 26.8.2022
- Production companies
- Solar Films Oy
- Distribution companies
- Nordisk Film
Herman the Circus Clown
- Category
- Feature films
- Directors
- Timo Koivusalo
- Screenwriters
- Simo Ojanen, Timo Koivusalo
- Producers
- Timo Koivusalo
- Premiere
- 9.9.2022
- Production companies
- Artista Filmi Oy
- Distribution companies
- Aurora Studios
There’s Something in the Barn
- International co-production NO-FI
- Category
- Feature films
- Directors
- Magnus Martens
- Screenwriters
- Aleksander Kirkwood Brown
- Producers
- Aleksi Hyvärinen, Kjetil Omberg, Jørgen Storm Rosenberg
- Premiere
- 1.12.2023
- SES grant
- 200 000 €
- Budget
- 4 690 000 €
- Production companies
- Don Films Oy
- Distribution companies
- Scandinavian Film Distribution
The Nordheims, a typical American family, are going back to their roots, having inherited a farm in the Norwegian mountains. A dream come true. Apart from the chilling surprise that awaits them.
Arnold Cautious and the Happiness Stone
- Category
- Feature films
- Directors
- Arto Halonen
- Screenwriters
- Arto Halonen, Jukka Itkonen
- Producers
- Arto Halonen
- Premiere
- 13.10.2023
- SES grant
- 800 000 €
- Budget
- 1 281 000 €
- Production companies
- Art Films production AFP Oy
- Distribution companies
- Nordisk Film
Julius has a vivid imagination, which worries his parents and his older sister. He is going to start school after the summer, and his family is a bit concerned: how will he fit into the world of school and all its boundaries? Julius’s parents themselves are in the middle of a serious crisis and considering a divorce. Together with his new friend, a “degenerated” vampire Arnold, Julius tries to make a Happiness Stone to solve the issues between his parents and within the family.