Documentaries
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.
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.
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.
The Other Voice
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Annika Grof
- Screenwriters
- Annika Grof
- Producers
- Joon Tervakari
- Premiere
- 27.5.2022
- SES grant
- 105 000 €
- Budget
- 298 000 €
- Production companies
- Tarasow Films Oy
- Distribution companies
- Tarasow Films Oy
The Other Voice is Annika Grof’s collage film about four academics and one cinematographer. The film offers a view to Finnish democracy through a tragic story of university and a tragicomic story of governmental politics.
Eatnameamet – Our Silent Struggle
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Suvi West
- Screenwriters
- Suvi West
- Producers
- Janne Niskala
- Premiere
- 19.5.2021
- SES grant
- 125 000 €
- Budget
- 310 000 €
- Production companies
- Vaski Filmi Oy
- Distribution companies
- Pirkanmaan elokuvakeskus
Since the white men came to Finland, the Sámi have only been losing their rights. And it seems to get worse year by year. The new laws of the National Board of Forestry, the definition of the Sámi people by the Supreme Administrative Court of Finland, the Parliaments failure to ratify ILO169 (international law package for improving the position of the indigenous people) and the new restrictions of the Sámi’s fishing rights show how the Finns are treating their small minority. These decisions harden the daily life of the Sámi, who mostly live out of the nature. The Sámi are ignored while making these decisions.
The Other Side of the River
- International co-production DE-SI-FI
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Antonia Kilian
- Screenwriters
- Antonia Kilian, Jakob Weidner
- Producers
- Merja Ritola
- Release year
- 2021
- SES grant
- 25 000 €
- Budget
- 364 000 €
- Production companies
- Greenlit Productions
Hala, a young Arab woman from a traditional, conservative city in North Syria, wants to be free and find love.
Broken Dreamland
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Hannu-Pekka Vitikainen, Khalid Laboudi
- Screenwriters
- Hannu-Pekka Vitikainen, Khalid Laboudi
- Producers
- Marianne Mäkelä, Hannu-Pekka Vitikainen
- Premiere
- 15.4.2022
- SES grant
- 129 500 €
- Budget
- 251 000 €
- Production companies
- Zone2 Pictures Oy
- Distribution companies
- Zone2 Pictures Oy
They were similar kind of drifters: young, restless with no direction or solid plans. Europe was their dream to live careless and free. Until one of them started to change and did a murderous attack in Turku, Finland.
By following two friends of the attacker, the film widens the world behind headlines. It looks at the feeling of emptiness and psyche of one generation of young Moroccan men.