Short films
The Tyrant
- International coproduction NO-FI
- Category
- Short films
- Directors
- Eirik Svensson
- Screenwriters
- Kristin Jess Rodin, Eirik Svensson
- Producers
- Gary Cranner, Jussi Rantamäki
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 14 000 €
- Budget
- 161 000 €
- Production companies
- Elokuvayhtiö Aamu
The Tyrant has achieved phenomenal success, she has killed all of her subjects and in every way made her tiny country great again. Still there is something missing in her life: That Special Someone.
Spiral
- Category
- Short films
- Directors
- Salla Sorri, Eva-Maria Koskinen
- Screenwriters
- Eva-Maria Koskinen
- Producers
- Paria Eskandari
- Release year
- 2022
- SES grant
- 52 000 €
- Budget
- 95 000 €
- Production companies
- Elokuvayhtiö Aamu
Anna sees Jasmine, her former school bully, after years when Jasmine brings her daughter to Anna’s dance class. Anna and Jasmine try to behave in a civilized manner, but there’s something bubbling beneath the surface. Spiral is about a ballet class that gets out of hand.
Grasshopper
- Category
- Short films
- Directors
- Jussi Eerola
- Screenwriters
- Jussi Eerola
- Producers
- Jussi Eerola, Mika Taanila
- Release year
- 2023
- SES grant
- 20 000 €
- Budget
- 45 000 €
- Production companies
- Elokuvayhtiö Testifilmi Oy
What lights up the darkest hours of night?
A Planet Far Away
- Category
- Short films
- Directors
- Juho Kuosmanen
- Screenwriters
- Juho Kuosmanen
- Producers
- Jussi Rantamäki, Emilia Haukka, Otto Kylmälä
- Release year
- 2023
- SES grant
- 92 000 €
- Budget
- 155 000 €
- Production companies
- Elokuvayhtiö Aamu
A Planet Far Away is an accompanied silent film about Marlanda and her little brother Maximilian. The film tells a story about the world ending and the peculiar ways of trying to cope with it.
The Blanket
- Category
- Short films
- Directors
- Teppo Airaksinen
- Screenwriters
- Leo Viirret
- Producers
- John Lundsten, Melli Maikkula
- Release year
- 2021
- SES grant
- 140 000 €
- Budget
- 240 000 €
- Production companies
- TACK Films Oy
10-year old Marja is sent to fetch milk for her baby brother. On the way, there are things even more dangerous than the thin ice.
A Wish Upon a Satellite
- International co-production: EE-FI
- Category
- Short films
- Directors
- Leeni Linna
- Screenwriters
- Leeni Linna, Leana Jalukse
- Producers
- Merja Ritola
- Release year
- 2021
- SES grant
- 14 000 €
- Budget
- 87 000 €
- Production companies
- Greenlit Productions
- Distribution companies
- Koulukino
10-year-old Otto, who has lost his parents, receives an unexpected gift at the night of his birthday, when a little dog Laika lands on earth in Sputnik 2.
No Dot on the I
- Category
- Short films
- Directors
- Jani Ruscica
- Screenwriters
- Jani Ruscica
- Producers
- Jani Ruscica
- Release year
- 2021
- SES grant
- 10 000 €
- Budget
- 45 000 €
- Production companies
- Askel tuotannot
In its eight acts, No Dot on the I, focuses its lense of a wide array of “symbols.” Their expressive potential and very being as visual representations is sewn into a complex web of meaning relationships.
Moskova Forever
- Category
- Short films
- Directors
- Vuokko Kunttu, Virva Kunttu
- Screenwriters
- Virva Kunttu
- Producers
- Ville Sivonen
- Release year
- 2021
- SES grant
- 30 000 €
- Budget
- 49 000 €
- Production companies
- Takauma osk
- Distribution companies
- Yle
Timo is a nostalgia fan who uncharacteristically uses dating applications in search of romance. However, the woman he serendipitously meets in Bar Moskova is perfect except for one small detail.
Kill Anneli
- Category
- Short films
- Directors
- Antti Holma
- Screenwriters
- Antti Holma
- Producers
- Sirkka Rautiainen
- Release year
- 2020
- SES grant
- 35 600 €
- Budget
- 71 000 €
- Production companies
- Delta Stories Scandinavia
Kaisa is a relentless overachiever and it’s beginning to affect her job as an elementary school teacher. To make everything worse Kaisa has to work with the best teacher in the world, Anneli, whose perfection is as effortless and relaxed as a summer breeze. Whatever Kaisa chooses to do, Anneli does it better, at least in the race that Kaisa is orchestrating mostly inside her head.
Together with her class Kaisa has produced a magnificent Christmas show for the school holiday celebrations, but Anneli has an ace up her sleeve. Things get bloody when the results of the teachers’ lounge gingerbread house competition are announced. Add to this the lengthy history that the ladies share that reaches far beyond their careers together.
Kristal
- Category
- Short films
- Directors
- Zaida Bergroth
- Screenwriters
- Zaida Bergroth
- Producers
- Daniel Kuitunen
- Release year
- 2020
- SES grant
- 40 000 €
- Budget
- 69 000 €
- Production companies
- Elokuvayhtiö Komeetta Oy
Kristal is a weird saint, who takes to bear all the hate, despare, lust and confusion around her and through that gives people a momentary relief.