Documentaries
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.
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.