Documentaries
End of the Line: The Women of Standing Rock
- International coproduction US-FI
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Shannon Kring
- Screenwriters
- Shannon Kring
- Producers
- Shannon Kring, Sophia Ehrnrooth
- Release year
- 2021
- SES grant
- 33 000 €
- Budget
- 450 000 €
- Production companies
- Solar Films Oy
End of the Line – The Women of Standing Rock is the incredible story of a group of indigenous women willing to risk their lives to stop the Dakota Access oil pipeline construction that desecrated their ancient burial and prayer sites and threatens their land, water, and very existence. In the process, they must face the personal costs of leadership, even as their own lives and identities are transformed in the crucible of one of the great political and cultural events of the early 21st century. This compelling documentary gives a uniquely powerful view of the unfolding epic of the Standing Rock movement from the inside, illumined through deeply personal footage and interviews with the remarkable women at the heart of it all – women whose lives are forever changed in the crucible of Standing Rock.
Hockey Dreams
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Janne Niskala, Oskari Pastila
- Screenwriters
- Janne Niskala, Oskari Pastila
- Producers
- Janne Niskala, Oskari Pastila
- Premiere
- 9.2.2022
- SES grant
- 140 000 €
- Budget
- 706 000 €
- Production companies
- Vaski Filmi Oy
- Distribution companies
- Storyhill Oy
Host country Korea will face the world’s best hockey nation Canada in the opening match of 2018 Winter Olympics. Ethnically Korean, but mentally North American hockey coach is given a huge challenge to prevent national embarrassment.
Melting Dreams
- International co-production SI-FI-AT
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Haidy Kancler
- Screenwriters
- Haidy Kancler
- Producers
- Bostjan Virc, Ari Matikainen, Sabine Gruber
- Release year
- 2022
- SES grant
- 30 000 €
- Budget
- 403 000 €
- Production companies
- Kinocompany Oy
In the mountains of central Afghanistan, a group of Afghani teenage girls are challenging cultural stereotypes, by learning to ski and bringing it to a professional level through extensive training in Europe.
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.
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.
Writing with Fire
- International co-production: IN-FI
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Sushmit Ghosh, Rintu Thomas
- Screenwriters
- Sushmit Ghosh, Rintu Thomas
- Producers
- Sushmit Ghosh, Rintu Thomas, John Webster
- Release year
- 2021
- SES grant
- 20 000 €
- Budget
- 219 000 €
- Production companies
- JW Documentaries Oy
In one of the most socially oppressive and patriarchal states of India emerges a newspaper run entirely by rural women belonging to the Dalit or ‘untouchable’ community. Meera, its popular political reporter, decides to magnify the local paper’s impact with an audacious move – to transform from print to a digital news agency. Working in media dark villages, mocked and discouraged, this is the story of a visionary woman’s feisty spirit in building what will probably be the world’s first digital news agency run entirely by rural Dalit women.
Future Remains
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Anna-Karin Grönroos
- Screenwriters
- Anna-Karin Grönroos
- Producers
- Oskar Forstén
- Release year
- 2021
- SES grant
- 80 000 €
- Budget
- 260 000 €
- Production companies
- Parad Media Oy
Future Remains is a documentary about the power of idealism through the story of Henrik Wahlforss, an industrial designer who believed design can change the future.
School of Hope
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Mohamed El Aboudi
- Screenwriters
- Mohamed El Aboudi
- Producers
- Pertti Veijalainen, Jenny Timonen
- Release year
- 2021
- SES grant
- 150 000 €
- Budget
- 315 000 €
- Production companies
- Illume Ltd. Oy
- Distribution companies
- Yle
School of Hope tells about a nomad tribe struggling to get education for their children, and a young teacher trying to help them while suffering himself of the Government’s indifference toward rural regions.
Climate change and overgrazing have brought poverty to the old nomad tribes of the High Plateau of Atlas in Morocco and forced them to partial settlement. Now faced with the changing environment and the necessity to settle down, they feel more lost than when wandering with their cattle in the endless desert. They’d need wells, electricity, health care and schools, but the Government is not interested in their troubles.
When the Dehbi tribe couldn’t get a State school to their area, they decided to build it themselves, and through an association managed to get a teacher to come there. The small school can only offer the first elementary classes, after which the children should move to town to continue studying. Even if the family might be able to afford sending a child there, they don’t want to send the girls, worried of their safety. The situation is complex; the nomads know they need education but are also afraid of it, afraid of losing their children.
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.
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.