Documentaries
Soap Fever
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Inka Achté
- Screenwriters
- Inka Achté
- Producers
- Liisa Karpo, Marianne Mäkelä
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 155 000 €
- Budget
- 356 000 €
- Production companies
- napafilms oy
The director returns to live in Finland and begins to explore how in her childhood in the 1990s the recession caused the country to go berserk from the start of the soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful. Reality and fantasy became mixed when a Los Angeles fashion house with all its interpersonal trials and tribulations suddenly intruded into their everyday lives. The director felt left out back then and ended up abroad. Only now, on her return, she understands the subtlety and importance of the past phenomena around The Bold and the Beautiful.
Suon tarina
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Marko Röhr
- Screenwriters
- Marko Röhr
- Producers
- Hanna Kauppi, Marko Röhr
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 320 000 €
- Budget
- 835 000 €
- Production companies
- MRP Matila Röhr Productions
- Distribution companies
- Nordisk Film
In Full Agreement
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Panu Suuronen
- Screenwriters
- Panu Suuronen
- Producers
- Susanna Lasarov
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 153 000 €
- Budget
- 289 000 €
- Production companies
- Mediawan Finland Oy
Amongst the Birds
- International co-production IS-FI
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Mika Kaurismäki, Ragnar Axelsson, Gunnar Örn Arnorsson
- Screenwriters
- Gunnar Örn Arnorsson, Ragnar Axelsson, Ingvar Thordarsson
- Producers
- Ingvar Thordarsson, Jukka Helle
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 40 000 €
- Budget
- 937 000 €
- Production companies
- Solar Films Oy
Ólafur Aðalsteinsson and Jóhanna Óladóttir, a husband and wife duo, embody a rare connection to nature. Ólafur, widely regarded as one of the world’s premier ornithologists despite lacking formal accreditation, finds solace and purpose in his avian companions within the remote confines of Loðmundarfjörður, Iceland. A mythical fjord that’s not been inhabited by humans since the sixties. Ólafur and Jóhanna have dedicated their lives to the welfare of the eider birds.
But I’m No Influencer
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Jussi Sandhu
- Screenwriters
- Jussi Sandhu, Hanna Kaihlanen
- Producers
- Pasi Hakkio
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 137 000 €
- Budget
- 330 000 €
- Production companies
- Wacky Tie Films
In March 2022, the world’s first-ever higher education program for social media was launched in Tampere. But I’m No Influencer explores the questions of education export and social media through the eyes of a Filipino immigrant, Mark. What should we all really learn about Influencing?
Rooms
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Antti Lempiäinen
- Screenwriters
- Antti Lempiäinen
- Producers
- Eliel Kilkki
- Release year
- 2025
- SES grant
- 38 000 €
- Budget
- 85 000 €
- Production companies
- Superreel Productions
Lessons in Fire
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- John Webster
- Screenwriters
- John Webster
- Producers
- Marko Talli, Eveliina Kantola
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 153 000 €
- Budget
- 417 000 €
- Production companies
- Yellow Film & TV
Lessons in Fire is a character-driven climate change story about ordinary, very relatable people, doing something exceptional. It’s a story about a group of firefighters from Finland – 49 men and 1 woman – who train to become the newest and most northern unit in a pan-European emergency response organisation. To learn how to fight large fires now and in future, the Finns travel to Portugal to learn from the best: from the veteran Portuguese firefighters already fighting on the frontlines of our rapidly warming world.
Coming from small-towns in the most northern regions of Europe, the Finns are seasoned professionals more used to rescue missions in ice and snow, but in Portugal they enter a fiery world they have never experienced before. Burnt Earth is a visually stunning and dramatically powerful film that takes the audience on an immersive journey into the devastating impacts of climate change, seen through the lens of those who dare to confront it.
Ismo – Maailman hauskin ulkopuolinen
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Ilkka Hynninen, Saku Pollari
- Screenwriters
- Riku Suokas, Johanna Tohni, Ismo Leikola
- Producers
- Erna Aalto
- Premiere
- 1.11.2024
- Production companies
- ICS Nordic
- Distribution companies
- SF Studios Oy
Kuka on Jenni?
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Panu Suuronen
- Screenwriters
- Panu Suuronen
- Producers
- Joonas Berghäll, Satu Majava
- Release year
- 2020
- SES grant
- 83 200 €
- Budget
- 200 000 €
- Production companies
- Oktober Oy
Fruitcakes – The Dawn of Drag
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Vesa Kuosmanen
- Screenwriters
- Vesa Kuosmanen
- Producers
- Sandra Enkvist
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 182 000 €
- Budget
- 348 000 €
- Production companies
- Polygraf Oy
Jolanda, a retired archivist, has treasured memories of his beloved friend Mummo for decades. In 1979, they performed together in Finland’s first drag show Happy Gays. Now, with a filmmaker, Jolanda invites a new generation of queer drag artists to re-enact their friendship. As the performers explore Jolanda’s past and the challenges he faced as an outsider, they realize their freedom and pride are rooted in the struggles of those who came before them.