Short films
Impivaara – A New World
- Category
- Short films
- Directors
- Patrik Söderlund
- Screenwriters
- Patrik Söderlund
- Producers
- Jussi Eerola
- Release year
- 2024
- SES grant
- 151 000 €
- Budget
- 238 000 €
- Production companies
- Elokuvayhtiö Testifilmi Oy
Impivaara – A New World adapts Finnish national author Aleksis Kivi’s novel Seven Brothers (1870) for the 21st Century. The emphasis is on climate crisis, the energetic basis of our culture and the co-dependencies of human and more-than-human worlds.
Night Stop
- Category
- Short films
- Directors
- Khadar Ayderus Ahmed
- Screenwriters
- Khadar Ayderus Ahmed
- Producers
- Danai Anagnostou
- Release year
- 2022
- SES grant
- 67 000 €
- Budget
- 131 000 €
- Production companies
- Kenno Filmi
A teenage Black boy is on his way home at night when his bicycle breaks down in the middle of a quiet highway. He stops to fix it and a mysterious woman in a veil appears at the nearby stop.
I
- Category
- Short films
- Directors
- Anu Pennanen
- Screenwriters
- Stéphane Querrec
- Producers
- Stéphane Querrec
- Release year
- 2022
- SES grant
- 12 000 €
- Budget
- 99 000 €
- Production companies
- Palo Productions
What if our greatest fear is not death but worthless life? 50-year-old Kati occupies a top position in a large company. Disappointed in life, she leaves her work and embarks on a journey into the end of despair. Encounter with another woman at night fails. Kati flees the world hiding inside a forest bunker.
Loading Love
- Category
- Short films
- Directors
- Viktor Granö
- Screenwriters
- Viktor Granö
- Producers
- Viktor Granö
- Release year
- 2023
- SES grant
- 34 000 €
- Budget
- 153 000 €
- Production companies
- Ab Ljud och bild
The programmer Kira and the synth composer Henrik live in a vaning relationship. Henrik catches Kira seemingly having virtual sex, although she claims she’s only working. Henrik breaks into the VR program, and indeed meets Kira’s lover: a virtual clone of Henrik himself! And this VR-Henrik surpasses Henrik on all levels. But when Henrik tries to come between Kira and VR-Henrik, he falls in love with his own clone. All relations fall apart. In the end, Kira and Henrik reunite in mutual care for VR-Henrik: they give him a copy of himself to have as a lover.
Service
- Category
- Short films
- Directors
- Mikko Mäkelä
- Screenwriters
- Mikko Mäkelä
- Producers
- Marja Pihlaja
- Release year
- 2022
- SES grant
- 55 000 €
- Budget
- 78 000 €
- Production companies
- Tekele Productions Oy
On furlough from his military service, Niko pays his estranged father a visit. Can old wounds heal?
Tuulikki
- Category
- Short films
- Directors
- Teemu Nikki
- Screenwriters
- Teemu Nikki
- Producers
- Aino Suvanto, Teemu Nikki
- Release year
- 2022
- SES grant
- 30 000 €
- Budget
- 91 000 €
- Production companies
- It's Alive Films
Tuulikki has a problem. She is in the throes of young love, and the world outside her window is vibrant and inviting. But her mother disagrees, not wanting to let Tuulikki out of her sight. Tuulikki fights back, but nothing seems to be making a difference. Finally, the mother-daughter relationship escalates when the circumstances prove too much for both of them.
The Tyrant
- International coproduction NO-FI
- Category
- Short films
- Directors
- Eirik Svensson
- Screenwriters
- Kristin Jess Rodin, Eirik Svensson
- Producers
- Gary Cranner, Jussi Rantamäki
- Release year
- in production
- SES grant
- 14 000 €
- Budget
- 161 000 €
- Production companies
- Elokuvayhtiö Aamu
The Tyrant has achieved phenomenal success, she has killed all of her subjects and in every way made her tiny country great again. Still there is something missing in her life: That Special Someone.
Spiral
- Category
- Short films
- Directors
- Salla Sorri, Eva-Maria Koskinen
- Screenwriters
- Eva-Maria Koskinen
- Producers
- Paria Eskandari
- Release year
- 2022
- SES grant
- 52 000 €
- Budget
- 95 000 €
- Production companies
- Elokuvayhtiö Aamu
Anna sees Jasmine, her former school bully, after years when Jasmine brings her daughter to Anna’s dance class. Anna and Jasmine try to behave in a civilized manner, but there’s something bubbling beneath the surface. Spiral is about a ballet class that gets out of hand.
Grasshopper
- Category
- Short films
- Directors
- Jussi Eerola
- Screenwriters
- Jussi Eerola
- Producers
- Jussi Eerola, Mika Taanila
- Release year
- 2023
- SES grant
- 20 000 €
- Budget
- 45 000 €
- Production companies
- Elokuvayhtiö Testifilmi Oy
What lights up the darkest hours of night?
A Planet Far Away
- Category
- Short films
- Directors
- Juho Kuosmanen
- Screenwriters
- Juho Kuosmanen
- Producers
- Jussi Rantamäki, Emilia Haukka, Otto Kylmälä
- Release year
- 2023
- SES grant
- 92 000 €
- Budget
- 155 000 €
- Production companies
- Elokuvayhtiö Aamu
A Planet Far Away is an accompanied silent film about Marlanda and her little brother Maximilian. The film tells a story about the world ending and the peculiar ways of trying to cope with it.