Documentaries
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
- Screenwriters
- Anna Blom, Tommi Seitajoki
- Producers
- Tommi Seitajoki
- Release year
- 2022
- SES grant
- 8 000 €
- Budget
- 33 000 €
- Production companies
- Impressio Films Oy
An overcrowded boat carrying Eritrean refugees sinks near the Italian coast. The human rights activist Adal Neguse learns that his brother was one of the victims. Adal decides to contact the survivors in order to find out what really happened. The encounters give birth to a collective testimony, marked by sorrow, guilt and hope.
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
- 2022
- 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.
All That Remains to Be Seen
- International coproduction DK-FI
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Julie Madsen Bezerra
- Screenwriters
- Julie Madsen Bezerra
- Producers
- Katrine Sahlström, Sonja Lindén
- Release year
- 2022
- 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
- 2022
- 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-part 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
- Premiere
- 17.11.2023
- SES grant
- 81 000 €
- Budget
- 151 000 €
- Production companies
- Elokuvayhtiö Testifilmi Oy
When a daughter of a famous American film director returns to her childhood paradise in Samoa and attempts to create a perfect sound version of the silent feature film made by her father fifty years earlier, she finds herself tangling between complex cultural practices, haphazard field work and her childhood memories.
Snowball Effect
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Pauliina Punkki
- Screenwriters
- Pauliina Punkki
- Producers
- Kaisa Astikainen, Pauliina Punkki
- Premiere
- 6.10.2023
- SES grant
- 157 120 €
- Budget
- 334 000 €
- Production companies
- Ida Productions Oy
Director Pauliina Punkki sets out to find what happened in the small town of 6,500 people and 12,000 reindeers in Finnish Lapland. How a decision to elect and then dismiss a young feminist female Town Manager from Southern Finland led to a democratic crisis and why they end up with a Town Manager with a conditional jail conviction from the Finnish Supreme Court. This kind of Snowball Effect can happen anywhere, even in this arctic wonderland, known for its international tourism, winter sports and Northern lights.
Just Animals
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Saila Kivelä, Vesa Kuosmanen
- Screenwriters
- Saila Kivelä, Vesa Kuosmanen
- Producers
- Elli Toivoniemi, Venla Hellstedt
- Premiere
- 4.3.2022
- SES grant
- 157 300 €
- Budget
- 400 000 €
- Production companies
- Tuffi Films Oy
- Distribution companies
- Aurora Studios
More than ten years ago Saila confessed openly that she was one of the activists who had secretly filmed animal farms. Saila spent three years of her youth in a legal battle where the prosecutor sought a jail sentence for her and the farmers wanted extreme compensation.
Saila’s sister Mai chose a different path, politics, and Saila fears that her biggest activist idol might become part of the machinery they had been fighting against.
The leading activist, Kristo, saw Saila as the next hope for the movement, but Saila doesn’t want to witness the animals’ suffering anymore. She needs to save herself, and find out what kind of an activist and person she really is.
The Gamer
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Petri Luukkainen, Jesse Jokinen
- Screenwriters
- Jesse Jokinen, Petri Luukkainen
- Producers
- Liisa Karpo, Marianne Mäkelä
- Release year
- 2023
- SES grant
- 190 000 €
- Budget
- 484 000 €
- Production companies
- napafilms oy
The Gamer is a coming of age story set in the harsh world of esports. Young gamers are taken to the limits of their stress control, reaction speed on the pursuit professionalism. When succeeding, still in their late teens, they are faced with the realities and pressure of multi million business and professional sports. Competitive online gaming represents the life of teenagers around the world. It’s all global, all commercial and very much online.
To Teach a Bird to Fly
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Minna Rainio, Mark Roberts
- Screenwriters
- Minna Rainio, Mark Roberts
- Producers
- Maria Gullsten
- Release year
- 2020
- SES grant
- 37 000 €
- Budget
- 96 000 €
- Production companies
- Flatlight Creative Oy
A narrator from a very different future recalls how her grandmother spent 5 years of her young life as a foster parent to a critically endangered bird.