Documentaries
A People’s Radio – Ballads from a Wooded Country
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Virpi Suutari
- Screenwriters
- Virpi Suutari
- Producers
- Virpi Suutari
- Release year
- 2021
- SES grant
- 45 000 €
- Budget
- 123 000 €
- Production companies
- Euphoria Film Oy
A short documentary based on the legendary Finnish radio program where ordinary people can open up about their worries, sorrows and joys.
Shepherds of the Earth – Stories from the Cradle of Humankind
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Iiris Härmä
- Screenwriters
- Iiris Härmä
- Producers
- Visa Koiso-Kanttila
- Release year
- 2022
- SES grant
- 185 000 €
- Budget
- 391 000 €
- Production companies
- Guerillafilms Ltd.
Researchers collect ancient animal stories of the indigenous tribe in Turkana – the Cradle of Humankind. Disturbingly, they find out that the relationship between the tribe and nature is far from harmonious. Who are we to say what’s right or wrong?
Captured
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Hanna Haaslahti
- Screenwriters
- Hanna Haaslahti
- Producers
- Hanna Haaslahti, Harmke Heezen
- Release year
- 2021
- SES grant
- 90 000 €
- Budget
- 196 000 €
- Production companies
- Fantomatico Oy
Captured is a participatory installation, which captures your face and creates a new identity for you in a collective scenario taking place in virtual world.
Two Forests
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Jan Ijäs
- Screenwriters
- Jan Ijäs
- Producers
- Jan Ijäs, Alf Hemming
- Release year
- 2025
- SES grant
- 27 000 €
- Budget
- 68 000 €
- Production companies
- Atalante
Two Forests reflects on the end of human life and the final disposal: aging and death. The setting is the aging and ailing Japan and its forest-related death myths.
The first forest is Aokigahara on the northwestern flank of Mount Fuji, the quiet and idyllic ‘Sea of Trees’, where Japanese people have gone to end their lives for thousands of years. The other forest is Obasute, a mountain where, according to legend, elderly people who had become a burden were taken and left to die.
The First 54 Years – An Abbreviated Manual for Military Occupation
- International coproduction IL-FR-FI-DE
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Avi Mograbi
- Screenwriters
- Avi Mograbi
- Producers
- Elina Pohjola, Leila Lyytikäinen
- Release year
- 2021
- SES grant
- 30 000 €
- Budget
- 474 000 €
- Production companies
- Citizen Jane Productions
How to succeed in an occupation for at least 53 years? Mograbi, director and narrator, builds the handbook of the perfect occupier based on testimonies from Israeli soldiers and archive footage.
Karalahti
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Juuso Syrjä
- Screenwriters
- Mika Karttunen, Joona Louhivuori
- Producers
- Jukka Helle, Ida Kallio, Rimbo Salomaa, Markus Selin
- Premiere
- 14.5.2021