Documentaries
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.
Yvonne
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Anna Blom
- Screenwriters
- Anna Blom
- Producers
- Anna Blom
- Release year
- 2020
- SES grant
- 10 000 €
- Budget
- 55 000 €
- Production companies
- Ja Media Production Ab
Yvonne is a film about a 57-year old woman with an intellectual disability who gains the respect and admiration of her critical mother. She does it through interpreting her life at the Swedish Theatre in Helsinki, despite her severe stage fright.
Best Possible Life
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Jussi Sandhu, Ville Hakonen
- Screenwriters
- Jussi Sandhu, Ville Hakonen
- Producers
- Pasi Hakkio, Niina Virtanen
- Release year
- 2020
- SES grant
- 20 000 €
- Budget
- 40 000 €
- Production companies
- Wacky Tie Films
It’s party time! Melancholic Finns in search of happiness.
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.
Acasă, My Home
- International co-production RO-FI
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Radu Ciorniciuc
- Screenwriters
- Radu Ciorniciuc
- Producers
- Monica Lazurean-Gorgan, Ari Matikainen
- Release year
- 2020
- SES grant
- 15 000 €
- Budget
- 227 000 €
- Production companies
- Kinocompany Oy
An immense green space in the middle of a metropolis, the Bucharest Delta is an abandoned water reservoir in which wildlife has grown to become a rare urban ecosystem. For the last two decades, the Enache family lived here, sleeping in a hut on a lakeshore, following the rhythm of the seasons and catching fish barehanded.
When the bulldozers come to destroy their home, they have to move and adapt to a completely new city life. Fishing rods are replaced by smartphones, idle afternoons are now spent in classrooms, and family ties are hard to maintain. With their roots in the wilderness, the nine children and their parents need to find a way to keep their family united in the concrete jungle.
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.