Documentaries
1 Holy Land
- International co-production SE-FI
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Göran Olsson
- Screenwriters
- Göran Olsson
- Producers
- Tobias Jansson, Miia Haavisto, Marja Pihlaja
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 40 000 €
- Budget
- 999 000 €
- Production companies
- Tekele Productions Oy
Fat Dance
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Kirsikka Saari
- Screenwriters
- Kirsikka Saari
- Producers
- Marianne Mäkelä
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 45 000 €
- Budget
- 78 000 €
- Production companies
- napafilms oy
Burn the Ginger
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Oskari Pastila
- Screenwriters
- Oskari Pastila
- Producers
- Oskari Pastila
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 90 000 €
- Budget
- 257 000 €
- Production companies
- Emerald Gate Industries Oy
Burn the Ginger is a story about the rise and fall of an Australian immigrant in the “World’s Happiest Country”. After becoming the golden boy of the academic, political and business elites sent to promote the Brand Finland abroad, he is thrown away like a wet rag in time of adversity and gets to experience the praised safety networks of the mythical Nordic welfare state firsthand.
Unelmaa kohti
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Joonas Berghäll
- Screenwriters
- Joonas Berghäll, Hannes Vartiainen
- Producers
- Joonas Berghäll
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 139 000 €
- Budget
- 490 000 €
- Production companies
- Oktober Oy
Omid – Hope
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Iiris Härmä
- Screenwriters
- Iiris Härmä
- Producers
- Visa Koiso-Kanttila
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 110 000 €
- Budget
- 215 000 €
- Production companies
- Guerillafilms Ltd.
The 90-year-old nature conservationist wants to see her object of the protection one more time: the last crane of Iran, Omid. Omid – Hope is a film about the relationship between man and nature, the joy of life and the position of women in Western and Iranian culture over the last hundred years.
My Choice
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Karoliina Gröndahl
- Screenwriters
- Karoliina Gröndahl
- Producers
- Kirsi Mattila
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 129 000 €
- Budget
- 224 000 €
- Production companies
- Osuuskunta Icebreaker Productions
Pariah
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Olavi Linna
- Screenwriters
- Olavi Linna, Oskar Forstén
- Producers
- Oskar Forstén
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 129 000 €
- Budget
- 273 000 €
- Production companies
- Polygraf Oy
Pariah is a film about power and powerlessness, about truths and myths and the stuff in between and how a stubborn and resilient housewife took on the entire world to make a point.
Regina
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Panu Suuronen
- Screenwriters
- Panu Suuronen
- Producers
- Susanna Lasarov
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 150 000 €
- Budget
- 307 000 €
- Production companies
- Aito Media Oy
The Sparrow
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Virpi Suutari
- Screenwriters
- Virpi Suutari
- Producers
- Virpi Suutari
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 160 000 €
- Budget
- 455 000 €
- Production companies
- Euphoria Film Oy
A documentary about young people who are defending one of the last coniferous forest areas in Europe. It´s a morality play and a love story of a younger generation whose main location and object of love is the Finnish forest. The protagonists come face to face with the Finnish forest industry and a deeply rooted national ideology of the forest as a foundation for the nation´s economic well-being. As a protest against the deforesting, a new forest movement called Forest Rebellion was born 2021.
Carmen!
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Pihla Viitala
- Screenwriters
- Pihla Viitala
- Producers
- Elise Pietarila, Oskar Forstén
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 185 000 €
- Budget
- 403 000 €
- Production companies
- Gimmeyawallet Productions Oy
Carmen is the coming-of-age story of a resourceful girl who is passionate about dancing. This dynamic documentary follows a fearless Finnish Romany girl for seven years on her way to adulthood.