Documentaries
The Happiest Man on Earth
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Joonas Berghäll
- Screenwriters
- Joonas Berghäll
- Producers
- Joonas Berghäll, Satu Majava
- Premiere
- 29.3.2019
- SES grant
- 160 000 €
- Budget
- 300 000 €
- Production companies
- Oktober Oy
- Distribution companies
- Baloa Pictures Oy
A lonely 40-year-old man sits on the balcony of a Finnish apartment building. Joonas Berghäll has learned that he will die in 14 years’ time, unless he changes his way of living or attitude towards life. Joonas wants to make a film about the state of wellbeing of Finnish men, drawing from his own experiences and mirroring the society at large.
The Magic Life of V
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Tonislav Hristov
- Screenwriters
- Tonislav Hristov, Kaarle Aho
- Producers
- Kaarle Aho, Kai Nordberg
- Premiere
- 23.8.2019
- Production companies
- Making Movies Oy
- Distribution companies
- Pirkanmaan elokuvakeskus
A young woman haunted by her childhood traumas is trying to help her mentally disabled brother to become more independent through live-role-playing. As she guides the brother through the world of multiple roles and identities, witches and wizards and medieval knights, she finally finds the courage to face the demons of her own past.
A Stranger
- International coproduction SE-FI
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Mikel Cee Karlsson
- Producers
- Erik Hemmendorff, Mark Lwoff, Misha Jaari
- Release year
- 2019
- SES grant
- 22 000 €
- Budget
- 484 000 €
- Production companies
- Oy Bufo Ab
A man is soon about to die, but he doesn’t know that yet. He only knows that he needs to tell his story. Fraemling is a film about a young father’s unlikely descent into a secret dual life of criminality and violence.
Invisible Demons
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Rahul Jain
- Screenwriters
- Rahul Jain, Iikka Vehkalahti
- Producers
- Iikka Vehkalahti
- Premiere
- 26.11.2021
- SES grant
- 179 000 €
- Budget
- 1 058 000 €
- Production companies
- Toinen katse
- Distribution companies
- Pirkanmaan elokuvakeskus
A prismatic meditation on pollution in the capital of the World’s biggest free-market democracy and the most polluted and populated city, Delhi – a film about the pollution inside of the human mind.
Harmageddon Armageddon in the Livingroom
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Katja Niemi
- Screenwriters
- Katja Niemi
- Producers
- Oskar Forstén
- Release year
- 2020
- SES grant
- 55 000 €
- Budget
- 116 000 €
- Production companies
- Franckforstén Oy
The Jehovah’s Witnesses’ internal judicial committee concluded that Josefina, 11 years old, had seduced her abuser, because “an adult wouldn’t touch a child that way.” Josefina believed she was guilty and remained silent. Until now. 25 years later she relives her traumas by reconstructing scenes from her childhood with other former Jehovah’s Witnesses.
Walk the Tideline
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Anna Antsalo
- Screenwriters
- Anna Antsalo
- Producers
- Venla Hellstedt, Elli Toivoniemi
- Premiere
- 21.5.2021
- SES grant
- 105 000 €
- Budget
- 363 000 €
- Production companies
- Tuffi Films Oy
- Distribution companies
- Tuffi Films Oy
Walk the Tideline is a film about the traces we leave behind us. It follows beachcombers at shores trying to find treasures. Between the people the film drifts out to the unknown oceans and shows us the diverse system of ocean currents, how they carry and swirl our history in small pieces.
Ruthless Times – Songs of Care
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Susanna Helke
- Screenwriters
- Susanna Helke, Markku Heikkinen
- Producers
- Timo Korhonen
- Premiere
- 8.4.2022
- SES grant
- 161 440 €
- Budget
- 350 000 €
- Production companies
- Road Movies Oy
- Distribution companies
- Pirkanmaan elokuvakeskus
Ruthless Times – Songs of Care is a documentary-material based film, partly using a choir song element in portraying the future challenges of the elderly care sector.
Kelet
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Susani Mahadura
- Screenwriters
- Susani Mahadura
- Producers
- Baba Lybeck
- Release year
- 2020
- SES grant
- 60 000 €
- Budget
- 141 000 €
- Production companies
- Baba Lybeck Productions Oy
Kelet is based in Finland, far away from her family in Manchester. Her life in Finland is sometimes lonely, in spite of Lola, another Somali transwoman who is her roomie, soulmate, and best friend. Being a black transwoman in Finland is not easy: racism and transphobia are deeply rooted in Finnish society.
Lost Boys
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Joonas Neuvonen, Sadri Cetinkaya
- Screenwriters
- Joonas Neuvonen, Sadri Cetinkaya, Venla Varha
- Producers
- Miia Haavisto
- Premiere
- 25.9.2020
- SES grant
- 140 000 €
- Budget
- 330 000 €
- Production companies
- Helsinki-filmi Oy, Tekele Productions Oy
- Distribution companies
- SF Studios Oy
Lost Boys is a documentary about damnation – about three men lost in a drug hell, defeated in the game of life, disappearing into the streets of Cambodia. Of the three, Jani is known as the main character of the documentary Reindeerspotting – Escape from Santaland (2010) and Joonas as its director. The main character of Lost Boys is Joonas himself.
The naked real life story full of sex, drugs and death tells us what happened ten years ago when these friends enjoying the never-ending after party following the success of the opening of the film Reindeerspotting that depicts drug users in Rovaniemi, change from immortal to mortal. The party comes to an end when Jani dies a violent death in Phnom Penh.
In the film Lost Boys, Joonas’ camera takes the viewer into the dizzying noise of Bangkok and the alleys of night-time Phnom Penh, to the last weeks of Jani’s life and the desperate search following his disappearance and death. What happened on the journey?
Can the answer be found in the videos shot by Joonas or in something that has yet to be investigated and faced, filmed or told? Is it all about drugs, women and money or does the trail lead somewhere deeper?
Someone knows something. Joonas is looking for his friends and the local women with whom they partied and with whom they shared whatever they had to share. Joonas must find his own truth about what happened among the drugs and the gloom. There are no heroes there.
Two Kids a Day
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- David Wachsmann
- Screenwriters
- David Wachsmann
- Producers
- Yoav Roeh, Aurit Zamir, Venla Hellstedt
- Release year
- 2022
- SES grant
- 30 000 €
- Budget
- 410 000 €
- Production companies
- Tuffi Films Oy
About 700 Palestinian minors are arrested and jailed every year by the Israeli security forces in the West Bank. They are taken from their homes at night and interrogated, with mental and physical pressure, which violate international law. Almost all of them are convicted and sent to prison. The most common offence is stone throwing; but behind the official reasoning, there’s an underlying systemic motive to these mass arrests of children: it’s the most efficient mechanism to deter the population and preserve Israel’s 50 years long occupation of the West Bank.