Documentaries
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
- 2026
- 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.
Invisible Enemy
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Ann-Mari Leinonen, Einari Paakkanen
- Screenwriters
- Ann-Mari Leinonen, Einari Paakkanen
- Producers
- Kimmo Paananen, Pasi Riiali
- Release year
- 2026
- SES grant
- 155 000 €
- Budget
- 259 000 €
- Production companies
- Filmbutik Oulu Oy
Two Finnish volunteer soldiers who fought in Ukraine begin trauma therapy to face the nightmares of war and find their way back to civilian life.
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.
ORSOQ – Seasons of Solitude
- International co-production GL-FI
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Inuk Silis Høegh
- Screenwriters
- Inuk Silis Høegh
- Producers
- Emile Hertling Péronard, Outi Rousu
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 45 000 €
- Budget
- 601 000 €
- Production companies
- Pystymetsä Oy
The very first Greenlandic-Finnish documentary film ORSOQ – Seasons of Solitude is an exploration of man’s longing for solitude. In an ambitious cinematic form, the film zooms in on people who have voluntarily chosen a life of loneliness. But who – no matter what they do – remain caught between the calmness of isolation and the need for community. The film is a philosophical inquiry, a visual poem about the spaces between belonging and solitude.
Songs Will Never Rust
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Marko Talli
- Screenwriters
- Marko Talli
- Producers
- Marko Talli
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 75 000 €
- Budget
- 200 000 €
- Production companies
- Yellow Film & TV
- Distribution companies
- Nordisk Film
The Soul of Trees
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Markku Laine
- Screenwriters
- Markku Laine, Petri Keto-Tokoi
- Producers
- Kirsi Mattila
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 32 000 €
- Budget
- 156 000 €
- Production companies
- Third Eye Films
The Soul of Trees is a mesmerizing odyssey into the secret world of trees, unveiling their interconnected lives and the breathtaking biodiversity flourishing within the woods. The documentary revolves around the main character of the story, an ancient oak, the Tree of Life. The oak serves as an ancient source of wisdom, narrating the cycle of life, the power of forests, and their biodiversity, emphasizing the interconnectedness and value of all life in nature.