Animated films and series
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.
Baby with a Playlist
- Category
- Animated films and series
- Directors
- Juho Luukkainen
- Screenwriters
- Juho Luukkainen
- Producers
- Patrik Sigmundt
- Release year
- 2019
- SES grant
- 63 000 €
- Budget
- 90 000 €
- Production companies
- Kaiho Republic Oy
Young men want to achieve contact with their unborn children. As it is not possible to achieve visual contact, the only tools left are based on audibility. Young fathers share their views on the subject on voice over. The surreal, animated visuals are based on their experiences when searching for contact with their baby.
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.
Archipellina and the Chalk Chrystal
- Category
- Animated films and series
- Directors
- Antonia Ringbom
- Screenwriters
- Antonia Ringbom, Tuomo Leino
- Producers
- Mats Långbacka
- Release year
- 2020
- SES grant
- 60 000 €
- Budget
- 650 000 €
- Production companies
- Långfilm Productions Finland Oy
The young bird Krä knows everything that’s going on in the islands of Archipellina. Now that autumn is here, he has to part with his best friend Neppa who is leaving south with her family on the house boat Casafloat. She gives him a set of small presents he can open when the longing becomes too strong. They bring back memories and take Krä around the islands to meet their strange inhabitants, whose problems he boldly tries to solve.
There are ecological adventures on land and under the sea. The flounder Unda is fighting Protodump’s scrap dumping; Ecolo, the Inventor, is recycling eelgrass in an effort to charm Isola from the neighboring island, who’d rather be sculpting. The potato brothers Carl and Will need to stop being so inhospitable when the French Fries Lady pays them a visit, The Hungry Wash-ups on Happyharu receive surprise guests. Even a new little Archipellite is born! Finally Neppa comes home, airborne! Krä and Neppa surprise Protodump by throwing him a birthday party.
However, there is a shadow from the past in the form of the cruel Mr Sourpuss. Is it his mark on the treasure map that Krä found in the submarine wreck? Is he after The Limestone Crystal under the sea? Is he able to make the dangerous tornadoes that ruin the Happyween party? Krä and Neppa are going to solve all these mysteries as winter is coming and it will be Christmas in Archipellina.
Mother and Milk
- Category
- Animated films and series
- Directors
- Ami Lindholm
- Screenwriters
- Ami Lindholm
- Producers
- Ami Lindholm
- Release year
- 2018
- SES grant
- 42 000 €
- Budget
- 67 000 €
- Production companies
- Osuuskunta Paperihattu
A baby is born but the breast milk is not rising. After a lot of sweat and tears, the fresh mother manages to produce the first drop of milk. Since then, the milk just keeps coming and a flood of breast milk covers the mother’s and father’s former life: home, work, friends, relationship, all sink into the ocean of milk.
Divine Consultants – The Beginning
- Category
- Animated films and series
- Directors
- Juha Fiilin
- Producers
- Juha Fiilin
- Release year
- 2019
- SES grant
- 45 000 €
- Budget
- 262 000 €
- Production companies
- Fiilin Good Films Oy
Joy Amicable (16) is our young protagonist. She lives in a safe and well organised society, where the majority of the people are happy. So happy that they just can’t stop smiling. Strangely, they also keep filming and posting their every move.
The Web Series is a prequel to the animated TV Series where Joy has dive into a corrupt afterlife.
Archipellina and the Black Box
- Category
- Animated films and series
- Directors
- Antonia Ringbom
- Screenwriters
- Antonia Ringbom, Tuomo Leino
- Producers
- Mats Långbacka
- Release year
- 2021
- SES grant
- 20 000 €
- Budget
- 510 000 €
- Production companies
- Långfilm Productions Finland Oy
- Distribution companies
- Yle
Still Lives
- Category
- Animated films and series
- Directors
- Elli Vuorinen
- Screenwriters
- Elli Vuorinen
- Producers
- Terhi Väänänen
- Release year
- 2019
- SES grant
- 25 000 €
- Budget
- 53 000 €
- Production companies
- Pyjama Films Oy
The films’ main characters are ancient or traditional folk art statues. Their age-old solidity and subtle movement are contrasted by the lively voice track where several busy narrators fret over modern live’s problems. The statues live through the voice tracks’ events in seven separate episodes that all contemplate, from different points of views, the theme of busy stillness.
The Last Matador
- Category
- Animated films and series
- Directors
- Katariina Lillqvist
- Screenwriters
- Katariina Lillqvist
- Producers
- Katariina Lillqvist, Tomas Rychetsky, Nils Claesson
- Release year
- 2021
- SES grant
- 26 510 €
- Budget
- 98 000 €
- Production companies
- Camera Cagliostro
When the last bullfighting arena in Catalonia is turned into a shopping mall, an old matador has to earn his living in the decadent night clubs of Barcelona. One night, the bored Russian president pops into the same bar, trying to freshen up his too long holidays. In no time he feels an urgent desire to try on his luck as a corrido hero before it is too late.
The Exploits of Moominpappa – Adventures of a Young Moomin
- Category
- Animated films and series
- Directors
- Ira Carpelan
- Screenwriters
- Ira Carpelan, Małgorzata Więckowicz-Żyła, Piotr Szczepanowicz
- Producers
- Tom Carpelan, Ira Carpelan, Grzegorz Wacławek, Piotr Szczepanowicz, Zofia Jaroszuk
- Premiere
- 25.3.2022
- SES grant
- 234 000 €
- Budget
- 1 059 000 €
- Production companies
- Filmkompaniet Alpha
- Distribution companies
- Black Lion Pictures
Moominpappa tells about his misunderstood childhood, his shattering flee from the foundling hospital, and the momentous meeting with Hodgkins.