Documentaries
State of Emergency
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- työryhmä
- Screenwriters
- Susanna Helke, Esa Illi, Anu Kuivalainen, Saara Helene Rawat
- Producers
- Saara Helene Rawat
- Release year
- i produktion
- SES grant
- 175 000 €
- Budget
- 318 000 €
- Production companies
- Bonsaifilms
State of Emergency is a collectively made documentary film about how Finland faces the Corona Epidemic. It paints a picture of an exceptional moment in history, the chaos of everyday life, in the tones of existential reflection, but also by showing the mercilessness of the crisis. What kind of reality is ahead? What is the new normal?
Kahden kodin tyttö
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Inka Achté, Hanna Karppinen
- Screenwriters
- Inka Achté, Hanna Karppinen
- Producers
- Liisa Karpo
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 30 000 €
- Budget
- 85 000 €
- Production companies
- napafilms oy
Jasmin is looking for her home while her father is looking for gold.
Hallelujah
- International coproduction NO-FI
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Tonje Hessen Scjhei
- Screenwriters
- Tonje Hessen Scjhei
- Producers
- Christian Aune Falch, Ingrid Galadriel Aune Falch, Torstein Parelius, Kaarle Aho
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 28 000 €
- Budget
- 931 000 €
- Production companies
- Making Movies Oy
Hallelujah is a political thriller that revolves around the biblical prophecy of Armageddon. The film investigates the consequences of the US Christian Zionists’ financial and political support to Israel, and features those who anticipate Doomsday and those who suffer with the results of this.
Power of the People
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Mervi Enqvist
- Screenwriters
- Mervi Enqvist
- Producers
- Essi Haukkamaa
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 122 000 €
- Budget
- 212 000 €
- Production companies
- Greenlit Productions
Respect
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Milja Moilanen, Eveliina Pasanen
- Screenwriters
- Milja Moilanen, Eveliina Pasanen
- Producers
- Elli Toivoniemi
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 134 000 €
- Budget
- 351 000 €
- Production companies
- Tuffi Films Oy
Respect is a documentary film that follows the self-transformation and overcoming process of two women that, after taking part of a reality show, they suffer objectification on mass media and lose their privacy and the respect of the whole nation.
African Moot
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Shameela Seedat
- Screenwriters
- Shameela Seedat
- Producers
- Francois Verster, Shameela Seedat, Don Edkins, Tiny Mungwe, Venla Hellstedt, Juha Löppönen
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 30 000 €
- Production companies
- Tuffi Films Oy
Wika!
- International coproduction PL-FI-DE-IT
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Agnieszka Zwiefka
- Screenwriters
- Agnieszka Zwiefka
- Producers
- Katarzyna Ślesicka, Anna Stylińska, Heino Deckert, Outi Rousu, Elena Filippi
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 35 000 €
- Budget
- 623 000 €
- Production companies
- Pystymetsä Oy
Wika is the oldest DJ in Poland and probably in the world. This 80-year-old grandma of four is playing in Warsaw clubs for young people and, despite increasing health problems, keeps saying that “80 is the new 40”. Before becoming a DJ, Wika worked for 30 years at a juvenile prison helping young criminals. Surviving World War II, two husbands, raising children and working double jobs at the same time, Wika was always a fighter. And today she has to win the last battle, with her aging body and family that would like to see Wika in a more traditional role of a grandma. But Wika doesn’t know how to bake cakes, and together with her colorful group of friends refuses to be closed in her apartment. She wants to dance.
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?
The first films in the series are Confessions of an Angry Mother (2018) and Cheating Is Good for You (2021).
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