Animated films and series
Niko – Beyond the Northern Lights
- Category
- Animated films and series
- Directors
- Kari Juusonen, Jørgen Lerdam
- Screenwriters
- Kari Juusonen, Hannu Tuomainen, Marteinn Thorisson
- Producers
- Antti Haikala, Hannu Tuomainen
- Premiere
- 11.10.2024
- SES grant
- 1 000 000 €
- Budget
- 7 277 000 €
- Production companies
- Animaker Oy
- Distribution companies
- Nordisk Film
When two young flying reindeers Niko and Stella compete to become a member of Santa’s Flying Forces they soon realise the race is not their only test. They must join forces to meet their biggest challenge – to find Santa’s stolen sleigh on the night before Christmas!
Momolu and Friends
- Category
- Animated films and series
- Directors
- Kari Juusonen
- Screenwriters
- Anne-Marie Perrotta
- Producers
- Ulla Junell-Pulkkinen, Joonas Rissanen
- Release year
- 2023
- SES grant
- 100 000 €
- Budget
- 7 171 000 €
- Production companies
- Ferly Oy
The Paddle Boat
- Category
- Animated films and series
- Directors
- Samppa Kukkonen
- Screenwriters
- Samppa Kukkonen
- Producers
- Inari Halme, Terhi Väänänen
- Release year
- 2024
- SES grant
- 89 000 €
- Budget
- 149 000 €
- Production companies
- Pyjama Films Oy
A father whose foolish choices have lost him his family drifts through humanity’s mistakes on a rickety paddle boat.
Fleak
- Category
- Animated films and series
- Directors
- Jens Møller
- Screenwriters
- Antti Haikala, Melli Maikkula, Teemu Auersalo, Ilja Rautsi
- Producers
- Antti Haikala
- Premiere
- 5.9.2025
- SES grant
- 1 000 000 €
- Budget
- 4 000 000 €
- Production companies
- Anima Vitae Ltd.
- Distribution companies
- SF Studios Oy
Blush – An Extraordinary Voyage
- Category
- Animated films and series
- Directors
- Iiti Yli-Harja
- Screenwriters
- Iiti Yli-Harja
- Producers
- Valtteri Munkki, Mikko Heino
- Release year
- 2022
- SES grant
- 40 000 €
- Budget
- 86 000 €
- Production companies
- Side Stories Oy
For 18-year-old Finnish–Kosovan Fatu, a simple visit to the grocery store feels as nerve-racking as a lunar expedition: for the first time in his life, he’s wearing makeup in public. Luckily his best friend Rai, a young woman on the spectrum of autism, is there to ferociously support him through the voyage.
Parting
- Category
- Animated films and series
- Directors
- Seppo Renvall
- Screenwriters
- Seppo Renvall
- Producers
- Satu Alhojärvi
- Release year
- 2022
- SES grant
- 17 000 €
- Budget
- 32 000 €
- Production companies
- Ex-Professo Arts Management Oy
Composer Kimmo Kuitunen was influenced 15 years ago by the famous Finnish poet Eino Leino and his old poem “Erotessa”. He began composing a choral work for the poem, but the composition turned into a wordless version. Artist Seppo Renvall discovered this piece of music called “LeinoMeetsOrc” and set out to visualize it. The result is a mathematically closely related symmetry of image and sound. Kuitinen’s contemporary classical orchestral work and Renvall’s impressionistic experimental worlds of everyday life leads to a dreamlike harmony for eyes and ears.
Gravitating
- Category
- Animated films and series
- Directors
- Heta Okkonen
- Screenwriters
- Heta Okkonen
- Producers
- Mika Koskinen, Tomi Riionheimo
- Release year
- 2023
- SES grant
- 43 000 €
- Budget
- 75 000 €
- Production companies
- Indie Films Oy
Two worlds collide in gravity altering love. The darkness of the mind enters.
The Piano Lesson
- Category
- Animated films and series
- Directors
- Nils-Erik Ekblom, Tom Norrgrann
- Screenwriters
- Nils-Erik Ekblom, Tom Norrgrann
- Producers
- Nils-Erik Ekblom, Tom Norrgrann
- Release year
- 2023
- SES grant
- 30 000 €
- Budget
- 117 000 €
- Production companies
- Ten Thousand Hearts Oy
Two young lives intertwine by the melody of a piano as the world goes mad around them during WW2. The Piano Lesson shows children’s perspective on the chaotic events of June 25th, 1941, when the Soviet Union bombed Helsinki.
Mirages
- Category
- Animated films and series
- Directors
- Marikki Hakola
- Screenwriters
- Marikki Hakola
- Producers
- Marikki Hakola
- Release year
- 2021
- SES grant
- 120 000 €
- Budget
- 900 000 €
- Production companies
- Kroma Productions Oy
- Distribution companies
- Yle
Mirages is a story about finding resources of human power, told with a strong female voice. The protagonist contemplates a close relationship, the different faces of love, the sensation of senses and the end of a relationship. Her mind broadens slowly from individual remembrances towards the community and recognition of her own powers. She shifts her energies towards a greater, communal purpose.
Ro
- International co-production PL-FI
- Category
- Animated films and series
- Directors
- Magda Osińska
- Screenwriters
- Magda Osińska, Bartosz Wierzbięta
- Producers
- Grzegorz Wacławek, Piotr Szczepanowicz, Tom Carpelan, Ira Carpelan
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 150 000 €
- Budget
- 2 950 000 €
- Production companies
- Filmkompaniet Alpha
Ro – a young flamingo leaves his bay and goes to the city where he discovers music, and true friendship through which he succeeds to build up the broken bond between flamingos and humans.