Documentaries
The Curse of Kane
- International co-production NO-FI
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- August B. Hanssen, Even G. Benestad
- Screenwriters
- August B. Hanssen, Even G. Benestad
- Producers
- Carsten Aanonsen, Juha Löppönen, Sami Jahnukainen, Katrine A. Sahlstrøm
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 30 000 €
- Budget
- 750 000 €
- Production companies
- Mouka Filmi Oy
We’ve all dreamed about making it big. About doing something that sets us apart and makes an indelible claim about who we are. Gunnar Ryan Wiik is a dreamer. But what makes him stand out is that he is seemingly willing to do anything to make his dreams come through. Yet somehow his dreams never see the light of day. But that is all about to change – or is it?
Neurotypes
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Maija Hirvonen
- Screenwriters
- Maija Hirvonen
- Producers
- Juha Löppönen, Sami Jahnukainen
- Release year
- 2024
- SES grant
- 125 000 €
- Budget
- 266 000 €
- Production companies
- Mouka Filmi Oy
Aida, a child on the autism spectrum, decides to fix the society’s structures that hinder her studies with the help of her caregiver mother Johanna. The determined child challenges the existing norms to advance acceptance and equality. Political influencing takes time and energy. Can the daughter-mother-duo change the society that only offers sympathy?
Like Father Like Son
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Jukka Kärkkäinen
- Screenwriters
- Jukka Kärkkäinen
- Producers
- Juha Löppönen, Sami Jahnukainen, Ove Rishoj Jensen
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 190 000 €
- Budget
- 475 000 €
- Production companies
- Mouka Filmi Oy
The documentary film Like Father Like Son is a portrait to a relationship of a father and a son where their small home is the epicenter of everything. Their home is a place where they fix their moped as well as brush their teeth. The protagonists’ relationship shifts between seeking for closeness, understanding and acceptance as the 16-year-old son steps closer to adolescence and adulthood. The yearning for a close one varies throughout the film, but it is still present in every moment and places the protagonists in dramatic situations.
Bona Fide
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Terjo Aaltonen
- Screenwriters
- Terjo Aaltonen, Marko Erola
- Producers
- Juho Harjula, Jari Lähteinen
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 88 000 €
- Budget
- 544 000 €
- Production companies
- Kameron Oy
Bona Fide, a true crime documentary series, tells the improbable story of Jouni Ranta and Veli Seppä, a card cheat turned art dealer and a welder with a God-given gift for painting. With Veli’s talent and Jouni’s knack for selling the two begin unloading forgeries to the booming art markets – a venture that lasts for three decades. Veli’s forgeries of Finnish masterpieces are so good that even the best experts of art museums and galleries are not able to call them out.
Annelin aika
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Saara Cantell
- Screenwriters
- Saara Cantell
- Producers
- Markku Tuurna
- Premiere
- 8.11.2024
- SES grant
- 150 000 €
- Budget
- 251 000 €
- Production companies
- Filmimaa Oy
- Distribution companies
- Pirkanmaan elokuvakeskus
Cantores Minores – Näin unta että lauloin
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Minna von Reiche
- Screenwriters
- Minna von Reiche, Tuuli Kuittinen
- Producers
- Minna von Reiche
- Release year
- 2024
- SES grant
- 121 000 €
- Budget
- 245 000 €
- Production companies
- Femkanten Media Oy
The Echoes of the Universe – The Music of Kaija Saariaho
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Riitta Rask
- Screenwriters
- Riitta Rask
- Producers
- Kaisa Näreranta
- Premiere
- 25.8.2023
- Production companies
- Teatro Productions Oy
- Distribution companies
- Pirkanmaan elokuvakeskus
Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989
- International co-production SE-FI
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Göran Hugo Olsson
- Screenwriters
- Göran Hugo Olsson
- Producers
- Tobias Jansson, Miia Haavisto, Marja Pihlaja
- Release year
- 2024
- SES grant
- 40 000 €
- Budget
- 999 000 €
- Production companies
- Tekele Productions Oy
Fat Dance
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Kirsikka Saari
- Screenwriters
- Kirsikka Saari, Antti Reikko
- Producers
- Marianne Mäkelä
- Release year
- 2023
- SES grant
- 45 000 €
- Budget
- 78 000 €
- Production companies
- napafilms oy
Dancehall dancer Evaleena Vuorenmaa gains 40 kilos and is forced to face the judging gaze of her employers, society and even herself. Fat Dance is a short documentary about a woman who decides to take the power into her own hands and build her image the way she wants it to be. Is it really true that sexiness is not about size?
Burn the Ginger
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Oskari Pastila
- Screenwriters
- Oskari Pastila
- Producers
- Oskari Pastila
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 90 000 €
- Budget
- 257 000 €
- Production companies
- Emerald Gate Industries Oy
Burn the Ginger is a story about the rise and fall of an Australian immigrant in the “World’s Happiest Country”. After becoming the golden boy of the academic, political and business elites sent to promote the Brand Finland abroad, he is thrown away like a wet rag in time of adversity and gets to experience the praised safety networks of the mythical Nordic welfare state firsthand.