Documentaries
Mörkö
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Emilia Hernesniemi
- Screenwriters
- Emilia Hernesniemi
- Producers
- Venla Hellstedt
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 68 000 €
- Budget
- 150 000 €
- Production companies
- Dionysos Films Oy
Our Love
- International co-production SE-FI
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Hannah Reinikainen, Lia Hietala
- Screenwriters
- Hannah Reinikainen, Lia Hietala
- Producers
- Marianne Mäkelä, Melissa Lindgren
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 51 000 €
- Budget
- 602 000 €
- Production companies
- napafilms oy
Our Love follows a motley crew of teenagers. They are 14 years old, and the world seems full of opportunities. But suddenly puberty hits and all the drama that comes with it. Can their friendship survive the turbulence?
Truth.com
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Tonislav Hristov
- Screenwriters
- Kaarle Aho
- Producers
- Kaarle Aho
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 160 000 €
- Budget
- 524 000 €
- Production companies
- Making Movies Oy
A documentary about fakes that fly while facts stay put. A female journalist takes on fake news and Russian trolls in the Balkans. Follow the money, find the sources.
Equal Dust
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Jani Peltonen
- Screenwriters
- Jani Peltonen
- Producers
- Kaarle Aho
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 52 000 €
- Budget
- 79 000 €
- Production companies
- Making Movies Oy
Autumn 1983. Nocturnal drive in the city of Helsinki. Nato’s nuclear war game.
The Smuggler
- International co-production SE-FI
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Sylvelin Måkestad
- Screenwriters
- Sylvelin Måkestad
- Producers
- Ina Holmqvist, Juha Löppönen
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 41 000 €
- Budget
- 552 000 €
- Production companies
- Mouka Filmi Oy
Redlight to Limelight
- International co-production IN-FI
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Bipuljit Basu
- Screenwriters
- Bipuljit Basu
- Producers
- Nilotpal Majumd, John Webster
- Release year
- 2025
- SES grant
- 25 000 €
- Budget
- 352 000 €
- Production companies
- JW Documentaries Oy
The dream of telling their own stories brings sex workers and their children together to form a tiny self-taught film unit in a Kolkata brothel. The amateur but resilient film crew eventually scales the battle up to resist prostitution among girls and makes the brothel a better place to live.
In Cod We Trust
- International co-production NO-FI
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Guro Saniola Bjerk
- Screenwriters
- Guro Saniola Bjerk
- Producers
- Benedikte Bredesen, Pasi Hakkio
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 45 000 €
- Budget
- 303 000 €
- Production companies
- Wacky Tie Films
In Cod We Trust is a meditation on home and belonging. The film portrays Båtsfjord, one of the northernmost fishing villages of the world. This self-contained world, wild fish-Klondike of the north, has gathered people from all over the world to live side by side. We dive into the village, making you feel like you are there, among the warmest people with the most outstanding humor. A mosaic of people as unpredictable as the weather and sea surrounding them.
D is for Distance
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Chris Petit, Emma Matthews
- Screenwriters
- Chris Petit
- Producers
- Mika Taanila, Jussi Eerola
- Release year
- 2025
- SES grant
- 111 500 €
- Budget
- 216 000 €
- Production companies
- Elokuvayhtiö Testifilmi Oy
D is for Distance is a montage of contemporary footage, archive and cinema history, creating an inquiry into the age of post-truth and how one young man’s illness became representative of the woes of the world and how he triumphed against adversity to produce his vision through singular paintings that are a result of his countless ‘trips’ into the other world.
All the Light That Remains
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Moona Pennanen
- Screenwriters
- Moona Pennanen
- Producers
- Ida Karoskoski
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 47 300 €
- Budget
- 100 000 €
- Production companies
- Illume Ltd. Oy
All the Light That Remains introduces the old mining village and seasonal worker Oleksandr, who arrives in Finland from Ukraine and lives in an in-between state, waiting for the end of the war. All the Light That Remains tells a poetic story about the village of Mätäsvaara, located in North Karelia, near the eastern border. It is a former mining village whose history has been forgotten. Through Oleksandr, who arrives to work in the area, the history of the village and the question hovering over the future of the mine begin to open up.
Paradise in Hel
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Mika Mattila
- Screenwriters
- Mika Mattila, Nino Poppius, Dylan Pashley
- Producers
- Axel Högström, Satu Majava
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 130 000 €
- Budget
- 541 000 €
- Production companies
- Parad Media Oy
The documentary series Paradise in Hel tells the story of mystic Ior Bock, the mythology he told, and the people who followed him. The series weaves together the three timelines: Ior’s own tragic life-story from beginning to end, the rise and fall of the Bock-Saga cult born in Goa in the 1980’s, and the rebirth of the Saga in modern times–as well as the followers’ attempts to prove its authenticity. The overarching theme of the series is new-age spiritualism and the innate human desire for connection and belief.