Documentaries
The New Greatness
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Anna Shishova-Bogolubova
- Screenwriters
- Anna Shishova-Bogolubova, Iikka Vehkalahti
- Producers
- Vlad Ketkovich, Iikka Vehkalahti, Sinisa Jurasic, German Boelens
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 18 000 €
- Budget
- 299 000 €
- Production companies
- IV Films Oy
Anya and Masha were ordinary teenagers who dreamed of making life in Russia better. They were arrested and incarcerated on fabricated charges of extremism and are facing a lengthy prison sentence. Their story became symbolic of the situation of the ruthless oppression of all forms of opposition in Russia today.
Silenced Family Stories
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Catarina Diehl
- Screenwriters
- Catarina Diehl
- Producers
- Tommi Seitajoki
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 54 000 €
- Budget
- 140 000 €
- Production companies
- Impressio Films Oy
The traditional family is in crisis. The animated documentary series ‘Silenced Family Stories’ challenges the viewer to think about their own family. Why do we start families and have children? How do we love each other and teach others about feelings?
Nasrin’s Voice
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Kaisa Rastimo
- Screenwriters
- Kaisa Rastimo
- Producers
- Kaisa Rastimo
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 160 000 €
- Budget
- 314 000 €
- Production companies
- Image Club
Wind Blow Me Away
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Sunna Nousuniemi
- Screenwriters
- Sunna Nousuniemi
- Producers
- Joonas Berghäll, Satu Majava
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 18 000 €
- Budget
- 70 000 €
- Production companies
- Oktober Oy
The Last of The Seagulls
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Tonislav Hristov
- Screenwriters
- Tonislav Hristov, Kaarle Aho
- Producers
- Kaarle Aho
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 138 000 €
- Budget
- 400 000 €
- Production companies
- Making Movies Oy
During Ivan’s lifetime Sunny Beach has turned upside down. In the 1970s Bulgarian men wanted to marry East German and Soviet ladies in order to get away. Now Russians and Ukrainians come to Sunny Beach and want to find Bulgarian men in order to get married and stay in the EU.
Rap and Reindeer
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Petteri Saario
- Screenwriters
- Petteri Saario
- Producers
- Petteri Saario, Tiina Saario
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 124 000 €
- Budget
- 295 000 €
- Production companies
- DocArt Ky
The documentary feature Rap and Reindeer follows the life of 18-year-old Sámi rapper Mihkku Laiti for a year and a half.
Knockout
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Lauri Anssi Moilanen, Olli Vuokko
- Screenwriters
- Lauri Anssi Moilanen, Olli Vuokko
- Producers
- Juho-Pekka Tanskanen, Isabella Karhu
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 150 000 €
- Budget
- 291 000 €
- Production companies
- Danish Bear Productions Oy
Resistant
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Ville Suhonen
- Screenwriters
- Ville Suhonen
- Producers
- Satu Majava, Joonas Berghäll
- Premiere
- 9.7.2021
- SES grant
- 165 000 €
- Budget
- 310 000 €
- Production companies
- Oktober Oy
- Distribution companies
- Pirkanmaan elokuvakeskus
A documentary about Arndt Pekurinen and the peace movement in the early 20th century
The Night My Brother Disappeared
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Anna Blom
- Producers
- Tommi Seitajoki
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 8 000 €
- Budget
- 33 000 €
- Production companies
- Impressio Films Oy
One early morning the Eritrean nurse and human-rights activist Adal Neguse woke up in his home in Stockholm with an uncanny feeling. He listened to the news and heard about a disaster on the Mediterranean. A boat with 369 Eritrean refugees had caught fire and sank outside Lampedusa. Adal knew his brother was waiting for smugglers to bring him over to Europe. He got a strong feeling his brother was onboard this particular boat and went to Lampedusa to look for him.
In the film, four survivors tell about the disaster from their individual perspective, they have four separate stories about what happened.
Claes Andersson – When You Least Expect Happens What Happens
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Pentti Kasurinen
- Screenwriters
- Pentti Kasurinen, Kari Elovuori
- Producers
- Pentti Kasurinen, Tuuli Vuorinen-Oras
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 20 000 €
- Budget
- 100 000 €
- Production companies
- BenCine
A documentary about a man called Claes Andersson. Big themes of the film are living through your life without father and same time competing with your father. It also film about fear of death, fear of becoming crazy and also how you survive with your fears.
Claes Andersson was a poet, jazz-musician, former minister of culture, presidential candidate, doctor and psychiatrist, who worked in mental hospital. Somehow he regarded himself being mentally ill, too.