Short films
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.
Expectancy
- Category
- Short films
- Directors
- Juho Fossi
- Screenwriters
- Avi Heikkinen, Juho Fossi
- Producers
- Juho Fossi, Antti Fossi
- Release year
- 2020
- SES grant
- 57 000 €
- Budget
- 35 000 €
- Production companies
- Fossi Films Ltd
Alex, a father-to-be, gets lost in the sounds of a baby monitor and his own fears of becoming a parent.
Bunny
- Category
- Short films
- Directors
- Jani Ilomäki
- Screenwriters
- Reeta Ruotsalainen
- Producers
- Julia Elomäki
- Release year
- 2020
- SES grant
- 35 600 €
- Budget
- 65 000 €
- Production companies
- Tekele Productions Oy
Bunny is a short film about the 15-year-old Tuukka and his 10-year-old sister Lili. One night Tuukka breaks into Lili’s foster family home. He wants to take Lili to their summer cabin to live there with him. Tuukka realizes that his plan isn’t flawless and he needs to make a big decision: should he leave her sister to her new family even though that would mean that they couldn’t be together?
Knock Knock
- Category
- Short films
- Directors
- Anssi Määttä
- Screenwriters
- Antti Tuominen
- Producers
- Kaarle Aho
- Release year
- 2020
- SES grant
- 75 000 €
- Budget
- 130 000 €
- Production companies
- Making Movies Oy
Leila has just been divorced. Her ex-husband has moved out. Their apartment has been sold. Leila stares at the empty walls and does not believe that this is her life. The night before moving out she hears a sound form inside the wall. A man, James, tells that he’s a time traveler from future trying to get to pre-historic times to see dinosaurs. He’s stuck inside a wrong time and a wrong wall. So is Leila, she feels, and refuses to move out.
Canary
- Category
- Short films
- Directors
- Risto-Pekka Blom
- Screenwriters
- Risto-Pekka Blom
- Producers
- Pasi Hakkio, Niina Virtanen
- Release year
- 2020
- SES grant
- 15 000 €
- Budget
- 43 000 €
- Production companies
- Wacky Tie Films
Canary deals with the chain of harassment and the way we all are broken in our own ways. The film combines brutal poetry with one long shot of a school environment, concealing ages of bullying in their dim toilet corners.
Mad from the Sun
- Category
- Short films
- Directors
- Anna Äärelä
- Screenwriters
- Anna Äärelä
- Producers
- Pilvi Kuusrainen
- Release year
- 2021
- SES grant
- 65 000 €
- Budget
- 125 000 €
- Production companies
- Oy Bufo Ab
A middle-aged woman, Miina, wakes up early on a Saturday morning. She finds a small plastic bag taped to the window, inside it a faintly bloody human ear. The ear sends Miina back in time to relive her first teenage love affair with Lukas.
Allas
- Category
- Short films
- Directors
- PV Lehtinen
- Screenwriters
- PV Lehtinen
- Producers
- PV Lehtinen
- Release year
- 2023
- SES grant
- 77 000 €
- Budget
- 120 000 €
- Production companies
- CineParadiso
A speechless story of a young boy in a skeleton costume and his father’s swimming trip to a lido. It seems like an ordinary trip until a strange woman with sunglasses joins the father at the pool.
Night of the Living Dicks
- Category
- Short films
- Directors
- Ilja Rautsi
- Screenwriters
- Ilja Rautsi
- Producers
- Mark Lwoff, Misha Jaari
- Release year
- 2021
- SES grant
- 110 000 €
- Budget
- 200 400 €
- Production companies
- Oy Bufo Ab
A horror comedy about Venla who’s tired of having gender and sex always rubbed against her face everywhere. She ends up with a pair of glasses that show all the men who are real dicks, their heads literally giant penises with faces. The dickhead monsters notice that she now recognizes them and chase Venla and her friend Kata, who’s the opposite of Venla when it comes to men and sex. They not only need to survive the Night of the Living Dicks, but also find out what the dicks want.
Reconstruction
- Category
- Short films
- Directors
- Pia Andell
- Screenwriters
- Pia Andell
- Release year
- 2021
- SES grant
- 94 300 €
- Budget
- 177 000 €
- Production companies
- Of Course My Films
A dance film based on true events depicts the year 1982 and tells the story of two 17 year olds Lassi and Pia who venture in a party at a hotel like Hansel and Gretel and find their way to witch’s room, room 332.
Turbulent Waters
- Category
- Short films
- Directors
- Elena Näsänen
- Screenwriters
- Elena Näsänen
- Producers
- Danai Anagnostou
- Release year
- 2022
- SES grant
- 69 000 €
- Budget
- 11 500 €
- Production companies
- Kenno Filmi
Turbulent Waters follows three lookalike young women in different parts of Europe ruined by rains, drought and storm. Their lives are surprisingly intertwined. It is a contemporary ghost story that deals with global environmental destabilisation through the intersection of three stories.