Documentaries
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.
The Spoils of Tamminiemi
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Arthur Franck
- Screenwriters
- Arthur Franck
- Producers
- Oskar Forstén
- Release year
- 2021
- SES grant
- 150 000 €
- Budget
- 288 000 €
- Production companies
- Polygraf Oy
Finland 1981. A group of the most skilled and respected political journalists in the country decide to break the most important rule: not to tell the truth. The Spoils of Tamminiemi is a dramatic but also comical documentary about Finland in the cold war era, and about the book that changed everything.
Sorrow Tamers
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Mina Laamo
- Screenwriters
- Mina Laamo
- Producers
- Mina Laamo
- Premiere
- 25.2.2022
- SES grant
- 91 750 €
- Budget
- 190 000 €
- Production companies
- Koko Production
- Distribution companies
- Pirkanmaan elokuvakeskus
Sorrow Tamers is an art-house-documentary film about individuals, who have decided to face the sorrow as it exists to them. Sorrow always shakes up the life we used to know, and everything is changed. Changed how? You do not know, unless you fearlessly step into the world of grief and, without fearing the change, step out in due course as a new, transformed version of yourself.
Shot on film, the short episodes of individual stories form a larger story of the finite nature of life and the intrinsic need of human beings to reach out to each other, even when it is not possible. Life is learning how to let go before death, the ultimate momentum of letting go.
Karaoke Paradise
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Einari Paakkanen
- Screenwriters
- Einari Paakkanen
- Producers
- Marianne Mäkelä, Liisa Karpo
- Premiere
- 12.8.2022
- SES grant
- 190 000 €
- Budget
- 620 000 €
- Production companies
- napafilms oy
- Distribution companies
- Aurora Studios
Evi, Finland’s most experienced karaoke hostess, wants to hug her customers’ pain away. With thousands of bars and kilometres behind her, yet again she packs her equipment and travels through the northern landscapes of Finland. Toni, the shyest guy in the world, catches everyone’s eye on the stage. Kari is searching for love and sings in his empty karaoke car repair shop. Elina can hardly walk because of Parkinson’s, but punk songs make her dance. Laura sings because talking is too painful. Karaoke Paradise is a story of how the Finns have found a unique way out of loneliness.
Shadowland
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Otso Tiainen
- Screenwriters
- Otso Tiainen, Kalle Kinnunen
- Producers
- Mark Lwoff, Misha Jaari
- Premiere
- 29.11.2024
- SES grant
- 140 000 €
- Budget
- 450 000 €
- Production companies
- Oy Bufo Ab
- Distribution companies
- Elävän kuvan keskus ELKE ry
Donner – Private
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- John Webster
- Screenwriters
- John Webster
- Producers
- Misha Jaari, Mark Lwoff, Ari Tolppanen
- Release year
- 2021
- SES grant
- 100 000 €
- Budget
- 396 000 €
- Production companies
- Oy Bufo Ab
The interview that was made during four days in December 2019 with Jörn Donner includes exclusive material that gives us a new perspective into the life of this exceptional cultural and political giant.
Maija Isola, Master of Colour and Form
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Leena Kilpeläinen
- Screenwriters
- Leena Kilpeläinen
- Producers
- Merja Ritola
- Premiere
- 4.3.2022
- SES grant
- 138 000 €
- Budget
- 310 000 €
- Production companies
- Greenlit Productions
- Distribution companies
- Storyhill Oy
Maija Isola was one of the first designers of Marimekko, working for the company for 38 years. The home textiles designed by her in the 1950s and 60s created a revolution in the Finnish homes: art was turned into fabric, making it accessible for everyone.
A House Made of Splinters
- International co-production DK-FI
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Simon Lereng Wilmont
- Screenwriters
- Simon Lereng Wilmont
- Producers
- Monica Hellström, Sami Jahnukainen, Tobias Janson
- Release year
- 2022
- SES grant
- 32 000 €
- Budget
- 713 000 €
- Production companies
- Donkey Hotel
A documentary film about an orphanage in the war-torn Eastern Ukraine. The film is a tragic and beautiful story about the long-term consequences of the prolonged war in Eastern Ukraine.
Ultras
- International coproduction SE-FI
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Ragnhild Ekner
- Screenwriters
- Ragnhild Ekner
- Producers
- Tobias Janson, Pasi Hakkio, Niina Virtanen
- Release year
- 2025
- SES grant
- 30 000 €
- Budget
- 744 000 €
- Production companies
- Wacky Tie Films
Ultras – the heart and soul of football stadiums around the globe. The supporters that will do anything for the team and yields that extra power into the game to help their team win. Ultras is not your regular sports film. Trough epic images and a cinematic mosaic of football supporters and their societal contexts around the world, we’ll portray a subculture that is widely known but yet mysterious and inaccessible for most of us.