Documentaries
Resistant
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Ville Suhonen
- Screenwriters
- Ville Suhonen
- Producers
- Satu Majava, Joonas Berghäll
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 165 000 €
- Budget
- 310 000 €
- Production companies
- Oktober Oy
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.
Boiling Point
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Elina Hirvonen
- Screenwriters
- Elina Hirvonen
- Producers
- Timo Vierimaa, Sami Jahnukainen
- Release year
- 2017
- SES grant
- 80 000 €
- Budget
- 215 000 €
- Production companies
- Mouka Filmi Oy
Forest of the Soul
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Anu Kuivalainen
- Screenwriters
- Anu Kuivalainen
- Producers
- Markku Tuurna
- Release year
- 2017
- SES grant
- 135 000 €
- Budget
- 226 000 €
- Production companies
- Filmimaa Oy
Grace
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Eri Mizutani
- Screenwriters
- Eri Mizutani, Paulina Lewicka
- Producers
- Anna Fam, Niklas Kullström
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 19 000 €
- Budget
- 125 000 €
- Production companies
- Hillstream Pictures Oy
Keiko, a modern Antigone, struggles to reinvent the tradition she has devoted her life to. There is no way out, but she decides to fight and find a golden mean, so that she can save herself and her loved ones.
Grace
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Eri Mizutani
- Screenwriters
- Eri Mizutani, Paulina Lewicka
- Producers
- Anna Fam, Niklas Kullström
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 19 000 €
- Budget
- 125 000 €
- Production companies
- Hillstream Pictures Oy
Keiko, a modern Antigone, struggles to reinvent the tradition she has devoted her life to. There is no way out, but she decides to fight and find a golden mean, so that she can save herself and her loved ones.
Silas, My Silas
- International coproduction DK-FI
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Julie Madsen Bezerra
- Screenwriters
- Julie Madsen Bezerra
- Producers
- Katrine Sahlström, Sonja Lindén
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 30 000 €
- Budget
- 394 000 €
- Production companies
- Avanton Productions Oy
Gaialand
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Hannu Kontturi, Yvonne Debeaumarché
- Screenwriters
- Hannu Kontturi, Yvonne Debeaumarché
- Producers
- Vera Olsson, Elodie Polo-Ackerman
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 80 000 €
- Budget
- 1 432 000 €
- Production companies
- Aito Media Oy
Gaialand is a documentary series packed with unbelievable twists, an ecological undertone and unsolved mystery. This 4 x 52’ series is about Europe’s most mysterious sect: Ecoovie.
Monica in the South Seas
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Sami van Ingen, Mika Taanila
- Screenwriters
- Sami van Ingen, Mika Taanila
- Producers
- Jussi Eerola
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 81 000 €
- Budget
- 151 000 €
- Production companies
- Elokuvayhtiö Testifilmi Oy
A film about Monica Flaherty’s (1920-2008) ambitious quest to create a perfect sound version of the silent feature film Moana, directed by Robert and Frances Flaherty in 1926. The protagonist Monica is the youngest of the three Flaherty daughters.