Feature films
Any Day Now
- Category
- Feature films
- Directors
- Hamy Ramezan
- Screenwriters
- Hamy Ramezan, Antti Rautava
- Producers
- Jussi Rantamäki
- Premiere
- 16.10.2020
- SES grant
- 580 000 €
- Budget
- 1 200 000 €
- Production companies
- Elokuvayhtiö Aamu
- Distribution companies
- Nordisk Film
Ramin Mehdipour (13) and his Iranian family have been living in a refugee center in Finland for a while now. As the boy is enjoying his school holidays, the family receives a negative decision on their asylum application. After filing the last possible appeal, the Mehdipours try to continue with their everyday lives and keep a positive attitude despite the looming danger of deportation. Ramin starts the new school year in which every moment will be more precious than ever.
Memory of Water
- Category
- Feature films
- Directors
- Saara Saarela
- Screenwriters
- Ilja Rautsi
- Producers
- Misha Jaari, Mark Lwoff
- Premiere
- 2.9.2022
- SES grant
- 1 177 500 €
- Budget
- 3 480 000 €
- Production companies
- Bufo Oy
- Distribution companies
- B-Plan Distribution
Dawn of War
- International co-production: EE-FI
- Category
- Feature films
- Directors
- Margus Paju
- Screenwriters
- Tiit Aleksejev, Eriikka Etholén-Paju, Tom Abrams
- Producers
- Esko Ribs, Kristian Taska, Jukka Helle
- Release year
- 2020
- SES grant
- 150 000 €
- Budget
- 2 177 000 €
- Production companies
- Solar Films Oy
A historical spy-thriller about an Estonian intelligence agent tasked with uncovering the Soviet double agent in their ranks.
Diva of Finland
- Category
- Feature films
- Directors
- Maria Veijalainen
- Screenwriters
- Maria Veijalainen
- Producers
- Mika Ritalahti, Niko Ritalahti
- Premiere
- 11.10.2019
- SES grant
- 727 000 €
- Budget
- 1 130 000 €
- Production companies
- Silva Mysterium Oy
- Distribution companies
- SF Studios Oy
It’s Henna’s 18th birthday, and the birthday girl is anxious. She’s fed up with the small rural town in Northern Finland and the future seems scary. She would like to do so much, but doesn’t know how to go about it, and neither does anyone else in her life – all the advice she’s getting is for safe, boring options. Henna likes music, but is insecure about it. But now that she’s 18 there’s light at the end of the tunnel. After this last winter she can move away from the small town and start her own life.
On Henna’s birthday something happens, though. There’s a new girl moving right next door, and she’s about to mix things up. The girl called Silja is from a big city in Southern Finland. She seems to excel in everything Henna wants to be good at, plus she charms everyone around Henna, especially her best friends, a pair of twins called Iris and Ii. As Silja accidentally steals Henna’s spotlight Henna is struck by a wave of vicious envy. Envy makes Henna obsessive about Silja. She starts stalking her in social media as well as in real life. At a geography class Henna is supposed to observe a lunar eclipse, but instead she aims her binoculars at Silja. She trips and falls over and hurts both of her eyes. A temporary blindness follows, so she is literally blinded by her own envy.
The Gravedigger’s Wife
- Category
- Feature films
- Directors
- Khadar Ayderus Ahmed
- Screenwriters
- Khadar Ayderus Ahmed
- Producers
- Mark Lwoff, Misha Jaari, Risto Nikkilä
- Premiere
- 12.11.2021
- SES grant
- 420 000 €
- Budget
- 1 241 000 €
- Production companies
- Bufo Oy
- Distribution companies
- B-Plan Distribution
The Gravedigger’s Wife is the story of a family that, in times of misfortune, have to push themselves to the limits in order to find enough strength to be able to re-unite.
Maria’s Paradise
- Category
- Feature films
- Directors
- Zaida Bergroth
- Screenwriters
- Anna Viitala, Jan Forsström
- Producers
- Daniel Kuitunen, Kaisla Viitala
- Premiere
- 4.10.2019
- SES grant
- 805 000 €
- Budget
- 1 654 023 €
- Production companies
- Elokuvayhtiö Komeetta Oy
- Distribution companies
- Nordisk Film
A teenage orphan girl Salome lives within a sect lead by charismatic and ruthless Maria Åkerblom. During a pivotal summer, Salome is faced with standing up against Maria, the woman who had saved her.
Nimby
- Category
- Feature films
- Directors
- Teemu Nikki
- Screenwriters
- Teemu Nikki, Jani Pösö
- Producers
- Jani Pösö, Teemu Nikki
- Premiere
- 9.10.2020
- SES grant
- 590 000 €
- Budget
- 1 284 000 €
- Production companies
- It's Alive Films
- Distribution companies
- Scanbox Entertainment Finland
Mervi is a gay girl living in the hipster quarters of Helsinki. She has been together with Kata for a year, and now they are encouraged by the circumstances to come out from closet. When they do, Mervi realises that she is not the only one in her family with secrets – her parents have been living in an open-bisexual-swinger-relationship for 20 years. On the other hand Kata is pretty surprised that she might be living with a hetero girl that once was dating a neo-nazi. And the ex-boy friend cannot swallow that Mervi is now with a person both of wrong color, and sex. The real threat appears when Kata’s parents arrive from Berlin and the local skinhead chief finds out that a black muslim celebrity politician has arrived to town. Nimby is a comedy about the intolerance among tolerant people.
The Potato Venture
- Category
- Feature films
- Directors
- Joona Tena
- Screenwriters
- Pekko Pesonen
- Producers
- Olli Haikka, Marko Talli
- Premiere
- 13.8.2021
- SES grant
- 787 745 €
- Budget
- 2 000 000 €
- Production companies
- Yellow Film & TV
- Distribution companies
- SF Studios Oy
The Potato Venture is a comedy about an early start-up entrepreneur who tries to import potato into Finland in the 17th century. The new class of bourgeoisie is emerging and shaking up the stagnant spirit of the era. But nobody believes in potato, and the Turnip Vendors’ Guild decides to squash the disruption caused by the young entrepreneurs.
Hatching
- Category
- Feature films
- Directors
- Hanna Bergholm
- Screenwriters
- Ilja Rautsi
- Producers
- Mika Ritalahti
- Premiere
- 4.3.2022
- SES grant
- 900 000 €
- Budget
- 3 954 376 €
- Production companies
- Silva Mysterium Oy
- Distribution companies
- Nordisk Film
Hatching is a horror drama about a young gymnast girl Tinja, who tries desperately to please her mother, a woman obsessed with presenting the image of a perfect family life to the whole world through her popular blog. Then, one night, Tinja finds a strange egg. She hides it, she keeps it warm. And when it hatches, what emerges is beyond belief.
Ricky Rapper and the Wrong Vincent
- Category
- Feature films
- Directors
- Maria Sid
- Screenwriters
- Sinikka Nopola, Tiina Nopola
- Producers
- Rimbo Salomaa, Jukka Helle, Markus Selin
- Premiere
- 9.10.2020
- SES grant
- 690 000 €
- Budget
- 1 740 000 €
- Production companies
- Solar Films Oy
- Distribution companies
- Nordisk Film
Rauha Rapper gets a strange prediction: a genius has been born to her immediate family. When Rauha finds a drawing Ricky has made, she is certain that Ricky is Vincent Van Gogh reborn. She decides to show Ricky’s drawing to the intendent of the Art Museum. At the same time, a sketch of one of Van Gogh’s paintings is found in Finland! This discovery starts an exciting chain of events, and in the end, the janitor of the Art Museum, a keen amateur detective, helps Ricky and Nelly to solve the mystery.