Documentaries
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.
The Kind Stranger
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Sini Hormio, Anu Silfverberg
- Screenwriters
- Sini Hormio, Ari Matikainen, Anu Silfverberg
- Producers
- Ari Matikainen
- Release year
- 2023
- SES grant
- 110 000 €
- Budget
- 334 000 €
- Production companies
- Kinocompany Oy
Manu (Finland), Emma (Britain) and Charlotte (US) are ASMR artists, part of a worldwide community of millions of people. They make popular Youtube videos that imitate human connection: gentle whispers, tender hand movements, caring role plays. For Manu, the videos are a way of finding his place in the world. Charlotte sees herself doing ”service”, and Emma looks at the camera as a mother. They all were once helped by the ASMR community, and now they want to give something back.
People We Come Across
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Mia Halme
- Screenwriters
- Mia Halme
- Producers
- Marianne Mäkelä, Liisa Karpo
- Release year
- 2021
- SES grant
- 164 270 €
- Budget
- 313 760 €
- Production companies
- napafilms oy
Year 2050 super bacteria will kill more people than cancer. The global problem is caused by reckless use of antibiotics. 800 tourists travel to Benin, Africa, to take part in special medical research aiming to find vaccination against diarrhea. A disease now treated by antibiotics and causing the super bacteria to spread in emerging speed. Head of the research is Finnish doctor, Anu Kantele, who has declared war on overuse of antibiotics, and on super bacteria.
Fragments of Humanity
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Elli Rintala
- Screenwriters
- Ari Matikainen, Elli Rintala
- Producers
- Ari Matikainen
- Release year
- 2022
- SES grant
- 130 000 €
- Budget
- 236 000 €
- Production companies
- Kinocompany Oy
Between war and peace there is a set of people applying themselves to solving the past conflicts and thereby trying to prevent the new ones ever to start. One of them was a Finnish forensic dentist Helena Ranta. Her task for the past twenty years was to recognize the victims of war in different conflict zones around the world and in that way to advocate for the thought that even in war there must be rules.
Kids Cup
- International co-production NO-FI
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Line Hatland
- Screenwriters
- Line Hatland
- Producers
- Ingvil Giske, Ari Matikainen
- Premiere
- 26.8.2022
- SES grant
- 22 000 €
- Budget
- 642 000 €
- Production companies
- Kinocompany Oy
- Distribution companies
- Kinocompany Oy
Every summer 30 000 children from about 50 countries get together to pursue their passion for football at Norway Cup. A variety of ethnicities, cultures and backgrounds are united for one huge tournament, a unique setting where young people from all over the world meet and compete on equal premises.
Kids Cup is a warm, humorous and thought-provoking feelgood documentary, involving homesickness, hormones, disappointment, victory, friendship, and most importantly; the feeling of loss and how to overcome it.
Raise the Bar
- International co-production IS-FI
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Guðjón Ragnarsson
- Screenwriters
- Guðjón Ragnarsson
- Producers
- Margrét Jónasdóttir, Outi Rousu
- Premiere
- 22.10.2021
- SES grant
- 32 000 €
- Budget
- 372 000 €
- Production companies
- Pystymetsä Oy
- Distribution companies
- Pirkanmaan elokuvakeskus
Empowering 8–12-year-old girls’ basketball team to change a culture inside the basketball movement.
The Light Snatcher
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Charlotte Airas
- Screenwriters
- Charlotte Airas, Kimmo Kohtamäki
- Producers
- Kaarle Aho
- Release year
- 2021
- SES grant
- 55 000 €
- Budget
- 115 000 €
- Production companies
- Making Movies Oy
A short documentary about light.