Documentaries
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.
Little Red Bunch
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Jouko Aaltonen
- Screenwriters
- Jouko Aaltonen
- Producers
- Jouko Aaltonen
- Release year
- 2020
- SES grant
- 100 000 €
- Budget
- 198 000 €
- Production companies
- Illume Ltd. Oy
The thoughts of Mao Zedong were collected in the Small Red Book, one of the world’s most widespread publications. It was waved also in Finnish demonstrations in the 1960s and 1970s. The Maoist movement of the cold Finland was also small and red. This documentary digs into the thoughts and experiences of this enthusiastic group.
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 Reporter
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Ari Matikainen
- Screenwriters
- Ari Matikainen
- Producers
- Liisa Karpo
- Premiere
- 25.9.2020
- SES grant
- 195 000 €
- Budget
- 300 000 €
- Production companies
- napafilms oy
- Distribution companies
- Finnkino
The Reporter makes a reassuring picture of how the powerful reporters have been influenced in a democratic country, where they are not killed. What have they have been allowed to say and what happened if they gained much power.
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.
The Red Ring
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Joonas Berghäll
- Screenwriters
- Joonas Berghäll
- Producers
- Satu Majava, Joonas Berghäll
- Premiere
- 14.5.2021
- SES grant
- 268 480 €
- Budget
- 530 000 €
- Production companies
- Oktober Oy
- Distribution companies
- Baloa Pictures Oy
Själö – Island of Souls
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Lotta Petronella
- Screenwriters
- Lotta Petronella, Seppo Parkkinen
- Producers
- Ilona Tolmunen
- Release year
- 2020
- SES grant
- 90 000 €
- Budget
- 260 000 €
- Production companies
- Made
Island of Souls is a film about memory, of the things we want to remember or are allowed to remember and who decides what will be remembered.
Silicon Valley, Baby
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Erika Haavisto
- Screenwriters
- Heli Sirviö, Erika Haavisto
- Producers
- Wille Lehtovaara, Heli Sirviö
- Release year
- 2020
- SES grant
- 95 000 €
- Budget
- 150 000 €
- Production companies
- Taavi Vartia Film & TV Oy
Silicon Valley, Baby on dokumenttielokuva kunnianhimoisesta nuoresta miehestä, joka halusi saavuttaa kaiken, urasta joka otti kaiken, ja rakkaudesta mikä kesti kaiken.