Short films
The Blanket
- Category
- Short films
- Directors
- Teppo Airaksinen
- Screenwriters
- Leo Viirret
- Producers
- John Lundsten, Melli Maikkula
- Release year
- 2021
- SES grant
- 140 000 €
- Budget
- 240 000 €
- Production companies
- TACK Films Oy
10-year old Marja is sent to fetch milk for her baby brother. On the way, there are things even more dangerous than the thin ice.
Human Flesh
- Category
- Short films
- Directors
- Jani Ruscica
- Screenwriters
- Jani Ruscica
- Producers
- Jani Ruscica
- Release year
- 2019
- SES grant
- 17 000 €
- Budget
- 49 000 €
- Production companies
- Askel tuotannot
A film about the power of expression and the fragility of its nature.
Force of Habit (anthology)
- Category
- Short films
- Directors
- Reetta Aalto, Tine Alavi, Alli Haapasalo, Ulla Heikkilä, Sonya Lindfors, Inari Niemi, Anna Paavilainen, Kirsikka Saari, Miia Tervo, Elli Toivoniemi, Jenni Toivoniemi
- Screenwriters
- Reetta Aalto, Maryan Abdulkarim, Alli Haapasalo, Sonya Lindfors, Inari Niemi, Raisa Omaheimo, Anna Paavilainen, Kirsikka Saari, Saara Särmä, Miia Tervo, Elli Toivoniemi, Jenni Toivoniemi
- Producers
- Elli Toivoniemi
- Release year
- 2019
- SES grant
- 195 000 €
- Budget
- 663 000 €
- Production companies
- Tuffi Films Oy
Force of Habit is an anthology of 11 episodes and a feature film made by fifteen filmmakers, artists, scientists and social influencers. The episodes bring forth the invisible exercise of power towards women in their private lives as well as in society.
The Stick
- Category
- Short films
- Directors
- Teppo Airaksinen
- Screenwriters
- Melli Maikkula
- Producers
- John Lundsten
- Release year
- 2019
- SES grant
- 70 000 €
- Budget
- 97 000 €
- Production companies
- TACK Films Oy
Verna has dreamed of having a dog for a long time, but her parents refuse to get her one. Finally her father caves in and promises to get the dog if Verna is able for a month to take care of a wooden stick like a pet.
A Wish Upon a Satellite
- International co-production: EE-FI
- Category
- Short films
- Directors
- Leeni Linna
- Screenwriters
- Leeni Linna, Leana Jalukse
- Producers
- Merja Ritola
- Release year
- 2021
- SES grant
- 14 000 €
- Budget
- 87 000 €
- Production companies
- Greenlit Productions
- Distribution companies
- Koulukino
10-year-old Otto, who has lost his parents, receives an unexpected gift at the night of his birthday, when a little dog Laika lands on earth in Sputnik 2.
The Explosion of a Swimming Ring
- Category
- Short films
- Directors
- Tommi Seitajoki
- Screenwriters
- Tommi Seitajoki
- Producers
- John Lundsten
- Release year
- 2019
- SES grant
- 40 000 €
- Budget
- 90 000 €
- Production companies
- TACK Films Oy
A family of three is spending the day at a water park. Tensions arise, and in 10 minutes everything falls apart.
Homebound
- Category
- Short films
- Directors
- Marika Harjusaari
- Screenwriters
- Ilona Ahti
- Producers
- Kaarle Aho, Kai Nordberg
- Release year
- 2019
- SES grant
- 75 000 €
- Budget
- 190 000 €
- Production companies
- Making Movies Oy
Asylum seekers are being sent back to Somalia from the world’s biggest refugee camp in Tanzania. Two Somali brothers get separated. The younger one is put into a bus crossing Al-Shabaab territory. The older one goes after him.
Dreams of the Blind
- Category
- Short films
- Directors
- Mies Mikkonen
- Screenwriters
- Mies Mikkonen
- Producers
- Klaus Heydemann, Merja Ritola
- Release year
- 2019
- SES grant
- 35 000 €
- Budget
- 63 000 €
- Production companies
- Inland Film Company Oy
People who have once lost their eyesight have the possibility of regaining it when entering into a dream state. The movie aims to create a simulation of this visionary realm of experience, seeking to take a step into the unknown. What follows is an unusual voyage to inner space – into that still-unmapped twilight territory known to us as the psyche.
All inclusive
- Category
- Short films
- Directors
- Teemu Nikki
- Screenwriters
- Teemu Nikki, Jani Pösö
- Producers
- Jani Pösö, Teemu Nikki
- Release year
- 2019
- SES grant
- 44 000 €
- Budget
- 66 000 €
- Production companies
- It's Alive Films
Fifty-year-old Kalervo is being bullied at home and at work. Surprisingly he receives “All inclusive” bracelet, which means that anything is possible, even a revenge.
Ha Ha Ha
- Category
- Short films
- Directors
- Samuli Valkama
- Screenwriters
- Samuli Valkama
- Producers
- Mete Sasioglu
- Release year
- 2019
- SES grant
- 30 000 €
- Budget
- 55 000 €
- Production companies
- Sons of Lumière Oy
A dance film about an efficient factory, where employees mass-produce canned gloomy laughters. One day, however, a burst of free laughter from an employee slips past the control and gets out in the open. A revolution begins.