Drama series
Enemy of the People
- Category
- Drama series
- Directors
- Mikko Kuparinen
- Screenwriters
- Timo Varpio, Laura Suhonen
- Producers
- Roope Lehtinen, Hannu Kalliolahti, Saara Kankaanpää
- Release year
- 2022
- SES grant
- 200 000 €
- Budget
- 3 491 000 €
- Production companies
- Fire Monkey Productions
Journalist Katja Salonen realizes this as she investigates the death of a football star and links it to millions of euros missing from a public stadium project. At the same time, many of the town’s power figures believe that they can make a fortune investing in a new cryptocurrency developed by a successful local entrepreneur.
Soon Katja, trying to figure out what’s going on, is being portrayed as a troubled gossip reporter. The truth seeker becomes an unreliable narrator and a mundane obstacle on the way towards a better future for the whole town.
The Peacemaker
- Category
- Drama series
- Directors
- Antti-Jussi Annila
- Screenwriters
- Eriikka Etholén-Paju
- Producers
- Johanna Enäsuo, Marko Röhr
- Release year
- 2020
- SES grant
- 155 910 €
- Budget
- 7 780 000 €
- Production companies
- MRP Matila Röhr Productions
- Distribution companies
- Yle
The Peacemaker is a ten episode television series about a team of Finnish peacemakers. They work in an international conflict area, but they also have to resolve the conflicts in their own pasts. The main character in The Peacemaker is a Finnish peace negotiator Ann-Mari Koistinen. She has recently retired from her post as a crisis response adviser in the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. Suddenly, she is invited by the UN mandate to lead an international conflict resolution process in Turkey. As the peace talks proceed, Ann-Mari has to reconcile with her past before her personal life comes in the way of the whole peace process.
Viral Geniuses
- Category
- Drama series
- Directors
- Elin Grönblom
- Screenwriters
- Elin Grönblom
- Producers
- Leila Lyytikäinen
- Release year
- 2020
- SES grant
- 55 000 €
- Budget
- 875 000 €
- Production companies
- Citizen Jane Productions
School is a zoo, and Atlas is trying to survive it like everybody else, but it doesn’t help that his best friend Elliott has moved across the globe. Atlas survives with his ironic humor, fun imagination and critical thinking, but constantly battles with his sensitive and insecure inner thoughts. And how does one know, when you are in love?
Deadwind
- Category
- Drama series
- Directors
- Rike Jokela
- Screenwriters
- Jari O.Rantala, Kirsi Porkka, Rike Jokela
- Producers
- Riina Hyytiä, Jojo Uimonen
- Release year
- 2018
- SES grant
- 150 000 €
- Budget
- 3 200 000 €
- Production companies
- Dionysos Films Oy
Donna
- Category
- Drama series
- Directors
- Heikki Kujanpää
- Screenwriters
- Heikki Kujanpää, Mikko Reitala
- Producers
- Mikko Reitala
- Release year
- 2018
- SES grant
- 142 333 €
- Budget
- 1 317 000 €
- Production companies
- Production House
Comedy series Donna tells a story about a 27 year old woman looking for love. In the first episode Donna’s partner, bassoon player André, suddenly leaves her after eight years of shared life, and Donna is left alone in her old house, that is in need of renovation. She decides to overcome her grief and find herself the prince of her dreams.
The unconventional comedy of the series is based on the fact that Donna is blind. How does it feel when every date is a blind date?
Steffi
- Category
- Drama series
- Directors
- Elin Grönblom
- Screenwriters
- Elin Grönblom
- Producers
- Mia Oikarinen, Markus von Reiche
- Release year
- 2018
- SES grant
- 49 000 €
- Budget
- 375 000 €
- Production companies
- Five Corners Production Oy
Steffi’s best friend Julia has suddenly died. Through Julia’s diary, which she now has inherited, Steffi is inspired to do what they had dreamt of doing all winter: she wants to go to theater camp. At the camp, Steffi discovers that Julia’s big crush in life Axel is also there and that the group will start rehearsing Romeo and Juliet (Julia’s favorite play). Axel gets the part of Romeo and Steffi, to her surprise, gets the part of Juliet.
Steffi misses her best friend but she finds ways to communicate with Julia, especially though an old phone in the attic of the camp, but when she falls in love with Axel it starts to feel like Julia gets revenge from the other side. Steffi has to cope with the sad reality without Julia and finally find a way to live with and without her best friend.
Bullets
- Category
- Drama series
- Directors
- Pete Riski
- Screenwriters
- Antti Pesonen, Minna Virtanen
- Producers
- Minna Virtanen
- Release year
- 2018
- SES grant
- 195 000 €
- Budget
- 5 100 000 €
- Production companies
- Vertigo Production Oy
Young police officer Mari is exceptionally gifted in working undercover. Vihta is a veteran cop who leads a very efficient drug squad. When Vihta’s unit discovers a terrorist cell living under aliases in Helsinki, Mari uses an assumed identity to get close to the terrorist group’s leader, Madina, known also as Shahidka, or Black Widow – a nickname she has earned by training young women to become suicide bombers.
As Mari forms an unlikely connection with Madina that forces the young police officer to re-evaluate her world view, she finds out Madina’s target is the president of Russia, who arrives in Finland for an energy conference. Struggling to keep her true colors hidden from Madina, Mari becomes one of the Brides of Allah and trains to wear the vest of an martyr.
Ratamo
- Category
- Drama series
- Directors
- Veikko Aaltonen
- Screenwriters
- Timo Varpio, Roope Lehtinen, Mikko Pöllä
- Producers
- Mari Kinnunen, Roope Lehtinen
- Release year
- 2018
- SES grant
- 110 000 €
- Budget
- 3 401 000 €
- Production companies
- Moskito Television Oy
Arctic Circle
- Category
- Drama series
- Directors
- Hannu Salonen
- Screenwriters
- Joona Tena, Jon Atli Jonasson
- Producers
- Olli Haikka, Jarkko Hentula
- Release year
- 2018
- SES grant
- 110 000 €
- Budget
- 6 500 000 €
- Production companies
- Yellow Film & TV
Arctic Circle is set in the exotic polar region, amidst the icy landscapes of Finnish Lapland. Finnish policewoman, Nina Kautsalo, finds a nearly dead prostitute in an old cabin in the wilderness. Criminal investigation takes a surprise twist, when a deadly virus is discovered in the prostitute’s blood sample. A German virologist, Thomas Lorenz, travels to Lapland to investigate the virus. Nina and Thomas suddenly find themselves in the middle of an exceedingly unusual criminal investigation that ends up forcing them outside the law.
Activists
- Category
- Drama series
- Directors
- Lauri Maijala
- Screenwriters
- Erik Söderblom
- Producers
- Annika Sucksdorff, Aleksi Bardy, Erik Söderblom
- Release year
- 2019
- SES grant
- 180 000 €
- Budget
- 1 600 000 €
- Production companies
- Helsinki-filmi Oy
Finland as an independent nation was born. At the center stage are young restless souls who operate against the backdrop of the phenomena of the time: deep social divisions, political intrigue, fierce proclamations and people’s movements that get out of control. Activists portrays what happens when people lose faith in society’s capability to deal with conflict.