Documentaries
Mörkö
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Emilia Hernesniemi
- Screenwriters
- Emilia Hernesniemi
- Producers
- Venla Hellstedt
- Release year
- 2025
- 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 or Dare
- Category
- Documentaries
- Directors
- Tonislav Hristov
- Screenwriters
- Kaarle Aho
- Producers
- Kaarle Aho
- Release year
- 2025
- 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
- 2025
- SES grant
- 52 000 €
- Budget
- 79 000 €
- Production companies
- Making Movies Oy
NATO’s nuclear exercise, a tracking shot through nocturnal Helsinki and the Finnish Eurovision Song Contest entries show what the end of the world looked like in the 1980s.
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, Jussi Sandhu
- Producers
- Benedikte Bredesen, Pasi Hakkio
- Release year
- 2026
- SES grant
- 45 000 €
- Budget
- 424 840 €
- Production companies
- Wacky Tie Films
Welcome to Båtsfjord, one of the northernmost fishing villages of the world, where cod is more important than God. In Cod We Trust is a mosaic puzzle, where people are knit together by fish, the town and nature. With an observational camera and closely heard dialogue, you will feel like you are there, candidly watching them, as they reveal how history and circumstances shape us and our perception of home. Båtsfjord might be the most remote and coldest place on earth, but here you will find the warmest people with the most outstanding humour.
We spend time observing how the heart of the town beats, getting to know the surroundings and villagers bit by bit. The events are always unpredictable and the villagers are a diverse, quirky bunch of people. We meet the Syrian refugee, Sebastian, who thinks he must have arrived in hell, the Finnish Kimmo who rhetorically complains about his girlfriend, the town mayor who feels misplaced in his role, and the lonely, depressed 89-year-old Doris, who has realized she lives in the middle of nowhere when it is far too late to move.
In Cod We Trust is a portrait of a town, and a meditation on home and belonging.
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
- 2026
- 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.