Documentaries
About Horses Wives and Weapons
- International co-production BE-FI-FR
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Volkan Üce
- Screenwriters
- Volkan Üce
- Producers
- Jenni Jauri
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 50 000 €
- Budget
- 550 000 €
- Production companies
- Silmu Films Oy
With a dose of humour, director Volkan Üce explores a young man’s role in the modern society.
The Pitcher
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Lotta-Kaisa Riistakoski
- Screenwriters
- Lotta-Kaisa Riistakoski
- Producers
- Tiina-Mari Pitkänen
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 216 873 €
- Budget
- 492 000 €
- Production companies
- Rabbit Films
Kunnes ruoste meidät erottaa
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Ossi Piispanen
- Screenwriters
- Ossi Piispanen, Emilia Hernesniemi
- Producers
- Oskari Huttu
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 160 000 €
- Budget
- 314 000 €
- Production companies
- Lucy Loves Drama
Unmade in Japan
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Catarina Diehl, Tommi Seitajoki
- Screenwriters
- Catarina Diehl, Tommi Seitajoki
- Producers
- Tommi Seitajoki
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 90 000 €
- Budget
- 140 000 €
- Production companies
- Impressio Films Oy
Unmade in Japan is an autobiographical film about divorce, trauma, and lack of communication. Catarina tries to repair her family’s broken relationships by making a film about her parents’ divorce, but instead she may only deepen the family’s wounds.
Sense and Sensibility
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Hanna Nordenswan
- Screenwriters
- Hanna Nordenswan
- Producers
- Hannu-Pekka Vitikainen
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 138 000 €
- Budget
- 308 000 €
- Production companies
- Zone2 Pictures Oy
As the seasons change in Malmi Cemetery, the story of letting go unfolds in Sense and Sensibility. In her recovery from alcoholism, daughter Christa has buried her feelings and grown into a symbiotic relationship with her mother, but as mother Carita approaches retirement, the security of shared work and leisure time is at breaking point. Will Christa dare to make room for her feelings and open up her sheltered life?
Good Girls
- International co-production SE-FI
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Ania Winiarska
- Screenwriters
- Ania Winiarska
- Producers
- Melissa Lindgren, Tobias Janson
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 45 000 €
- Budget
- 475 000 €
- Production companies
- Tekele Productions Oy
Good Girls is a coming-of-age story of young Polish girls living in a correctional center. The girls undergo a behavioural reprogramming so that they may become good girls. But what does it take? And is that even something they want? Told through the eyes of the girls, this documentary depicting the micro cosmos of the center, reflects the values and expectations on young women in today’s Poland.
Simo Was Here
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- PV Lehtinen
- Screenwriters
- PV Lehtinen
- Producers
- PV Lehtinen
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 3 700 €
- Budget
- 9 000 €
- Production companies
- Cineparadiso Oy
Simo Salminen visits an outdoor swimming pool and amuses children. A short fanfare for the late great entertainer.
Second Acts
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Anu Kuivalainen
- Screenwriters
- Anu Kuivalainen
- Producers
- Markku Tuurna
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 173 000 €
- Budget
- 312 000 €
- Production companies
- Filmimaa Oy
Second Acts is a documentary film about metamorphosis, about how people use art to break out of their shells and grow new wings. A person has a new opportunity to make moral choices and have the freedom to influence the course of their life through their own decisions, even though we were each dealt with different cards in childhood.
Näkymätön vihollinen
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Ann-Mari Leinonen, Einari Paakkanen
- Screenwriters
- Ann-Mari Leinonen, Einari Paakkanen
- Producers
- Kimmo Paananen, Pasi Riiali
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 155 000 €
- Budget
- 259 000 €
- Production companies
- Filmbutik Oulu Oy
Featherless
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Kaapo Kamu
- Screenwriters
- Kaapo Kamu
- Producers
- Kaapo Kamu, Siiri Siltala
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 50 000 €
- Budget
- 123 000 €
- Production companies
- Kaapo Kamu Oy
Featherless is a documentary film about letting go and the identity crisis associated with retirement. It reflects on our society’s difficulty in recognizing the value of individuals even when they are no longer at their most productive.