Documentaries
Aalto
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Virpi Suutari
- Screenwriters
- Virpi Suutari
- Producers
- Timo Vierimaa
- Premiere
- 4.9.2020
- SES grant
- 160 000 €
- Budget
- 580 000 €
- Production companies
- Euphoria Film Oy
- Distribution companies
- Storyhill Oy
Aalto tells the story of Alvar and Aino Aalto, Finnish masters of modern architecture and design. This enchanting couple shared their lives and great passion for organic human-scale architecture. Together they were creating a better and more democratic modern world. In their philosophy, the “little human” was always at the center of the work.
Photographer of War
- International coproduction DK-FI
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Boris B. Bertram
- Screenwriters
- Boris B. Bertram
- Producers
- Katrine Sahlström, Sonja Lindén
- Release year
- 2019
- SES grant
- 24 000 €
- Budget
- 345 000 €
- Production companies
- Avanton Productions Oy
Love Child
- International coproduction DK-FI
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Eva Mulvad
- Screenwriters
- Eva Mulvad
- Producers
- Sigrid Dyekjaer
- Release year
- 2019
- SES grant
- 15 000 €
- Budget
- 601 000 €
- Production companies
- Made
Love Child is a film about one of the most relevant political topics at the moment: refugees. But it is also a love story describing a small family’s fight for a life together – told in strong and complex cinematic scenes filmed over a span of six years.
Golden Land
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Inka Achté
- Screenwriters
- Inka Achté, Hanna Karppinen
- Producers
- Liisa Karpo
- Premiere
- 11.2.2022
- SES grant
- 155 000 €
- Budget
- 275 000 €
- Production companies
- napafilms oy
- Distribution companies
- napafilms oy
Golden Land is a documentary film about Somalian family who assimilated to Finland a long time ago and now decide to move back to Somaliland in the hope of a better future.
Still Into You
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Anu Kuivalainen
- Screenwriters
- Anu Kuivalainen
- Producers
- Marianne Mäkelä
- Premiere
- 7.8.2020
- SES grant
- 153 000 €
- Budget
- 382 000 €
- Production companies
- Bonsaifilms
- Distribution companies
- Bonsaifilms
Still into You is a documentary film about love, relationships and sexuality of elderly men and women. Five couples show how intimacy is still strong even though age and body has changed.
Tukdam
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Donagh Coleman
- Screenwriters
- Donagh Coleman
- Producers
- Kaarle Aho
- Premiere
- 30.9.2022
- SES grant
- 130 000 €
- Budget
- 500 000 €
- Production companies
- Making Movies Oy
- Distribution companies
- Cinema Mondo
In what Tibetans call tukdam, deceased meditators show no signs of death for days or weeks. Juxtaposing ground-breaking scientific research and Tibetan perspectives, this creative documentary challenges our notions of life and death, and where we draw the line between them.
Eye to Eye
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- John Webster
- Screenwriters
- John Webster
- Producers
- John Webster
- Release year
- 2020
- SES grant
- 90 000 €
- Budget
- 204 000 €
- Production companies
- JW Documentaries Oy
Restorative dialogue (Redi) is a form of trauma therapy for the family members of victims of violent crime. Under specific circumstances it can be beneficial for them to meet the perpetrator – in most cases the murderer – face to face. The most important criteria for this meeting is that the perpetrator should want to ask for forgiveness for the crime. But the benefits are not only one-sided – this face-to-face meeting can also help the perpetrator come to terms with the crime they committed.
The film follows two such cases over several months. During the film we witness the unlocking of a state of prolonged grief in the families and the beginnings of a healing process, and we see the perpetrators coming to accept responsibility for their crimes. Major themes in the film are love, loss, the power of asking for forgiveness, and the importance of mourning.
Save and Quit?
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Esa Illi
- Screenwriters
- Esa Illi
- Producers
- Klaus Heydemann
- Release year
- 2020
- SES grant
- 92 500 €
- Budget
- 205 000 €
- Production companies
- Inland Film Company Oy
A feature documentary about today’s youth, about what it is like to grow up in a constantly changing world; a world moving at rapid pace, where almost nothing seems to be certain anymore. Growing up in the era of ‘digitalisation of everything’, sometimes described as ’Liquid times’. It is also a documentary outlining for us that world. The world as it actually is for the teenagers. The world in which our children live, even if we, their parents, don’t.
Eva
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Mikko Peltonen
- Screenwriters
- Mikko Peltonen
- Producers
- Elina Pohjola, Leila Lyytikäinen
- Release year
- 2019
- SES grant
- 50 000 €
- Budget
- 257 000 €
- Production companies
- Citizen Jane Productions
Reflecting Ice
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Nina Forsman
- Screenwriters
- Nina Forsman
- Producers
- Niina Virtanen
- Release year
- 2019
- SES grant
- 55 500 €
- Budget
- 120 000 €
- Production companies
- Wacky Tie Films
- Distribution companies
- Yle
Reflecting Ice is a documentary about a Finnish ice dance couple Olesia Karmi and Max Lindholm and their journey from the top to quitting and finally finding happiness from letting go.