Documentaries
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
Koho – Future from Forssa
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Sakari Suuronen
- Screenwriters
- Sakari Suuronen
- Producers
- Mika Ritalahti
- Release year
- 2022
- SES grant
- 30 000 €
- Budget
- 103 000 €
- Production companies
- Silva Mysterium Oy
Portrait of a forgotten visionary, Kari Aro, founder of the hockey stick company KOHO, in a small Finnish town, in the 60s. With the success of the company, Aro’s futuristic ideas unfolded to the astonishment of the locals. This heart-warming and humorous film recounts the untold story of KOHO and Aro’s utopian vision for a better future.
Solitaire Dance
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Antti Lempiäinen
- Screenwriters
- Antti Lempiäinen
- Producers
- Ella Ruohonen
- Release year
- 2021
- SES grant
- 90 000 €
- Budget
- 172 000 €
- Production companies
- Superreel Productions
In the ruins of communality a growing number of people are left alone. Emma-Maria tries to cope on her own with two small children. Emilia, 24, spends her time driving around the streets of a small Finnish town. Lasse, 80, divorced his wife after a long marriage, and spends his days playing cards and his nights writing poems. They all face obstacles trying to get away from the situation. However, through dance, poetry, sheer coincidence and persistence, their stories develop further from loneliness. By focusing on their everyday experience with emotional and social loneliness the film zooms out to a wider problem of a structural loneliness in western societies.
The Dinosaur
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Veikko Aaltonen
- Screenwriters
- Veikko Aaltonen
- Producers
- Mark Lwoff, Misha Jaari
- Release year
- 2021
- SES grant
- 130 000 €
- Budget
- 306 584 €
- Production companies
- Oy Bufo Ab
A documentary about director Rauni Mollbergista and Finnish film then and now.
Innocence
- International co-production: DK-IL-FI
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Guy Davidi
- Screenwriters
- Guy Davidi
- Producers
- Sigrid Dykjaer, Hilla Medailla, Kaarle Aho
- Release year
- 2022
- SES grant
- 40 000 €
- Budget
- 815 000 €
- Production companies
- Making Movies Oy
Innocence tackles the issue of militarization and its impact on the lives of young Israeli people who are forced to serve against their own identity and values. Through a narration based on the haunting diaries of soldiers who died in uniform and rare home video they left behind, the film depicts their inner turmoil. Interweaved together with first-hand training videos and unique filmed life moments, the film shows how children and young people are being tracked and pressured step by step from early childhood into military enrolment and away from their parents.
Good Life
- International co-production SE-FI
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Marta Dauliūtė, Viktorija Šiaulytė
- Screenwriters
- Marta Dauliūtė, Viktorija Šiaulytė
- Producers
- Marta Dauliūtė, Viktorija Šiaulytė, Niklas Kullström, Mirjam Gelhorn, Dagnė Vildžiūnaitė
- Release year
- 2022
- SES grant
- 18 000 €
- Budget
- 318 000 €
- Production companies
- Hillstream Pictures Oy
Good Life is an absorbing case study of a co-living start-up, where corporate culture and community building make an extraordinary match. With sharp wit the film highlights the present-day loss of privacy and how corporate storytelling becomes part of one’s innermost self.
The Happy Worker
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- John Webster
- Screenwriters
- Eveliina Kantola, John Webster
- Producers
- Marko Talli
- Premiere
- 6.5.2022
- SES grant
- 190 500 €
- Budget
- 750 000 €
- Production companies
- Yellow Film & TV
- Distribution companies
- SF Studios Oy
The workplace is broken. The Happy Worker looks behind the sleek office facades to show the ridiculously inefficient and wasteful theatre that is the modern workplace. A silenced majority are deeply unhappy, cynical or burned out. Most affected are Millennials and Gen-z’s. What are the psychological needs that make people happy and motivated in their work, and why are so many managers terrible at their job? After Covid work will change, but do we want to go back to business as usual?
The Mission
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Tania Anderson
- Screenwriters
- Tania Anderson
- Producers
- Isabella Karhu, Juho-Pekka Tanskanen
- Premiere
- 5.8.2022
- SES grant
- 144 000 €
- Budget
- 255 000 €
- Production companies
- Danish Bear Productions Oy
After receiving a “call to serve” from God, four American teenagers undergo rigorous preparation in order to travel to the other side of the world to attempt to convert some of Europe’s most non-religious people, Finns, to the Mormon Church of Latter-Day Saints. The Mission witnesses the journey of Kai, Tyler, McKenna and Megan s they leave their homes for the first time and embark upon the most emotionally, physically and spiritually challenging period of their life.