Feature films
Olen suomalainen
- Category
- Feature films
- Directors
- Aleksi Mäkelä
- Screenwriters
- Marko Leino, Tomi Tuikkala
- Producers
- Jukka Helle, Markus Selin
- Premiere
- 13.9.2019
- SES grant
- 750 000 €
- Budget
- 1 528 000 €
- Production companies
- Solar Films Oy
- Distribution companies
- Nordisk Film
Master Cheng
- Category
- Feature films
- Directors
- Mika Kaurismäki
- Screenwriters
- Hannu Oravisto
- Producers
- Mika Kaurismäki
- Premiere
- 27.9.2019
- SES grant
- 750 000 €
- Budget
- 2 869 000 €
- Production companies
- Marianna Films Oy
- Distribution companies
- SF Studios Oy
Cheng, 45, a restaurant owner from China, has travelled with his young son halfway around the world to a remote village in — Finland. His wife died recently in an accident, and Cheng wanted to have a break from everything by traveling with his son to see an old Finnish friend who lives on a farm in the countryside of Finland. It’s the most remote place he can imagine with endless forests, thousands of lakes, a country with entire population of one-fifth of Cheng’s home town, Shanghai.
Dogs Don’t Wear Pants
- Category
- Feature films
- Directors
- J-P Valkeapää
- Screenwriters
- J-P Valkeapää, Juhana Lumme
- Producers
- Aleksi Bardy, Helen Vinogradov
- Premiere
- 1.11.2019
- SES grant
- 720 000 €
- Budget
- 1 267 000 €
- Production companies
- Helsinki-filmi Oy
- Distribution companies
- SF Studios Oy
Juha has lost his wife in a drowning accident. Years after he still feels numb and unable to connect with people. Meeting Mona, a dominatrix, changes everything. Dogs Don’t Wear Pants is a darkly humorous story of loss, love and the sweet pain of being.
Fingerpori
- Category
- Feature films
- Directors
- Mikko Kouki
- Screenwriters
- Petja Lähde, Mikko Kouki
- Producers
- Nina Laurio, Jukka Helle, Markus Selin
- Premiere
- 16.10.2019
- SES grant
- 687 000 €
- Budget
- 1 493 000 €
- Production companies
- Solar Films Oy
- Distribution companies
- Nordisk Film
Aurora
- Category
- Feature films
- Directors
- Miia Tervo
- Screenwriters
- Miia Tervo
- Producers
- Max Malka
- Premiere
- 25.1.2019
- SES grant
- 750 000 €
- Budget
- 1 190 000 €
- Production companies
- Dionysos Films Oy
- Distribution companies
- Nordisk Film
One night at a hot-dog stand in Finnish Lapland Aurora, a party animal, meets Iranian Darian. Darian needs to marry a Finnish woman to get an asylum for himself and his daughter. Aurora turns him down, as she plans to move to Norway, away from her shit life. However, after meeting his sweet daughter, she agrees to help him. As Aurora introduces numerous women to Darian, the two of them grow close.
Teräsleidit
- Category
- Feature films
- Directors
- Pamela Tola
- Screenwriters
- Pamela Tola, Aleksi Bardy
- Producers
- Aleksi Bardy, Dome Karukoski, Sirkka Rautiainen
- Premiere
- 3.1.2020
- SES grant
- 850 000 €
- Budget
- 1 230 000 €
- Production companies
- Helsinki-filmi Oy
- Distribution companies
- SF Studios Oy
Inkeri, 75, has hit her husband on the head with a solid iron frying pan and is planning to bury him in their garden. Before facing the rest of her life in prison, there may yet be a moment left to really live. Inkeri makes her sisters Sylvi and Raili join her on a trip to the Koli National Park. Will Inkeri find in her that free young woman who desired a feminist revolution in the 70s?
Games People Play
- Category
- Feature films
- Directors
- Jenni Toivoniemi
- Screenwriters
- Jenni Toivoniemi
- Producers
- Venla Hellstedt, Elli Toivoniemi
- Premiere
- 21.8.2020
- SES grant
- 860 000 €
- Budget
- 1 361 000 €
- Production companies
- Tuffi Films Oy
- Distribution companies
- Nordisk Film
A group of old friends gathers to celebrate Mitzi’s surprise birthday party over a nostalgic weekend at an idyllic seaside villa – just like they used to do as teenagers. Familiar surroundings and the old rituals get to the core of the group and make them forget their adulthood. Revelations, not meant to harm the balance, make them reassess their past as well as their present.
Forest Giant
- Category
- Feature films
- Directors
- Ville Jankeri
- Screenwriters
- Ville Jankeri, Timo Turunen
- Producers
- Rimbo Salomaa, Jukka Helle, Markus Selin
- Premiere
- 11.9.2020
- SES grant
- 752 500 €
- Budget
- 1 415 000 €
- Production companies
- Solar Films Oy
- Distribution companies
- Nordisk Film
Pasi returns to his childhood town, asked to reconfigure the local forest factory. With a child on the way with his upper-class wife, Pasi sees an opportunity – this is his ticket to climb the professional ladder in the company. On arrival, he bumps into his childhood friend Janne, who works in the factory he is about to downsize. Pasi begins to struggle with the fact that he is supposed to care for the profits – not for the people.
Helene
- Category
- Feature films
- Directors
- Antti J. Jokinen
- Screenwriters
- Marko Leino, Antti J. Jokinen
- Producers
- Antti J. Jokinen, Mikko Tenhunen
- Premiere
- 17.1.2020
- SES grant
- 800 000 €
- Budget
- 2 090 000 €
- Production companies
- Cinematic Finland
- Distribution companies
- Nordisk Film
In 1913, Helene Schjerfbeck was a forgotten artist, living together with her elderly mother in the Finnish countryside. She had kept painting for passion only, not for glory. An art dealer decides to organise a huge solo exhibition for Helene and introduces her to Einar Reuter, a passionate admirer of Helene’s work. She falls deeply in love with him, despite their age difference. Through the tragic relationship, Helene grows more independent and becomes a stronger artist than ever before.
One Half of Me
- Category
- Feature films
- Directors
- Tuukka Temonen
- Screenwriters
- Olga Temonen, Tuukka Temonen
- Producers
- Olga Temonen, Tuukka Temonen
- Premiere
- 13.3.2020
- Production companies
- Optipari Oy
- Distribution companies
- Kuusan Kino