Short films
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.
No Dot on the I
- Category
- Short films
- Directors
- Jani Ruscica
- Screenwriters
- Jani Ruscica
- Producers
- Jani Ruscica
- Release year
- 2021
- SES grant
- 10 000 €
- Budget
- 45 000 €
- Production companies
- Askel tuotannot
In its eight acts, No Dot on the I, focuses its lense of a wide array of “symbols.” Their expressive potential and very being as visual representations is sewn into a complex web of meaning relationships.
Moskova Forever
- Category
- Short films
- Directors
- Vuokko Kunttu, Virva Kunttu
- Screenwriters
- Virva Kunttu
- Producers
- Ville Sivonen
- Release year
- 2021
- SES grant
- 30 000 €
- Budget
- 49 000 €
- Production companies
- Takauma osk
- Distribution companies
- Yle
Timo is a nostalgia fan who uncharacteristically uses dating applications in search of romance. However, the woman he serendipitously meets in Bar Moskova is perfect except for one small detail.
Kill Anneli
- Category
- Short films
- Directors
- Antti Holma
- Screenwriters
- Antti Holma
- Producers
- Sirkka Rautiainen
- Release year
- 2020
- SES grant
- 35 600 €
- Budget
- 71 000 €
- Production companies
- Delta Stories Scandinavia
Kaisa is a relentless overachiever and it’s beginning to affect her job as an elementary school teacher. To make everything worse Kaisa has to work with the best teacher in the world, Anneli, whose perfection is as effortless and relaxed as a summer breeze. Whatever Kaisa chooses to do, Anneli does it better, at least in the race that Kaisa is orchestrating mostly inside her head.
Together with her class Kaisa has produced a magnificent Christmas show for the school holiday celebrations, but Anneli has an ace up her sleeve. Things get bloody when the results of the teachers’ lounge gingerbread house competition are announced. Add to this the lengthy history that the ladies share that reaches far beyond their careers together.
Kristal
- Category
- Short films
- Directors
- Zaida Bergroth
- Screenwriters
- Zaida Bergroth
- Producers
- Daniel Kuitunen
- Release year
- 2020
- SES grant
- 40 000 €
- Budget
- 69 000 €
- Production companies
- Elokuvayhtiö Komeetta Oy
Kristal is a weird saint, who takes to bear all the hate, despare, lust and confusion around her and through that gives people a momentary relief.
Expectancy
- Category
- Short films
- Directors
- Juho Fossi
- Screenwriters
- Avi Heikkinen, Juho Fossi
- Producers
- Juho Fossi, Antti Fossi
- Release year
- 2020
- SES grant
- 57 000 €
- Budget
- 35 000 €
- Production companies
- Fossi Films Ltd
Alex, a father-to-be, gets lost in the sounds of a baby monitor and his own fears of becoming a parent.
Bunny
- Category
- Short films
- Directors
- Jani Ilomäki
- Screenwriters
- Reeta Ruotsalainen
- Producers
- Julia Elomäki
- Release year
- 2020
- SES grant
- 35 600 €
- Budget
- 65 000 €
- Production companies
- Tekele Productions Oy
Bunny is a short film about the 15-year-old Tuukka and his 10-year-old sister Lili. One night Tuukka breaks into Lili’s foster family home. He wants to take Lili to their summer cabin to live there with him. Tuukka realizes that his plan isn’t flawless and he needs to make a big decision: should he leave her sister to her new family even though that would mean that they couldn’t be together?
Knock Knock
- Category
- Short films
- Directors
- Anssi Määttä
- Screenwriters
- Antti Tuominen
- Producers
- Kaarle Aho
- Release year
- 2020
- SES grant
- 75 000 €
- Budget
- 130 000 €
- Production companies
- Making Movies Oy
Leila has just been divorced. Her ex-husband has moved out. Their apartment has been sold. Leila stares at the empty walls and does not believe that this is her life. The night before moving out she hears a sound form inside the wall. A man, James, tells that he’s a time traveler from future trying to get to pre-historic times to see dinosaurs. He’s stuck inside a wrong time and a wrong wall. So is Leila, she feels, and refuses to move out.
Canary
- Category
- Short films
- Directors
- Risto-Pekka Blom
- Screenwriters
- Risto-Pekka Blom
- Producers
- Pasi Hakkio, Niina Virtanen
- Release year
- 2020
- SES grant
- 15 000 €
- Budget
- 43 000 €
- Production companies
- Wacky Tie Films
Canary deals with the chain of harassment and the way we all are broken in our own ways. The film combines brutal poetry with one long shot of a school environment, concealing ages of bullying in their dim toilet corners.
Mad from the Sun
- Category
- Short films
- Directors
- Anna Äärelä
- Screenwriters
- Anna Äärelä
- Producers
- Pilvi Kuusrainen
- Release year
- 2021
- SES grant
- 65 000 €
- Budget
- 125 000 €
- Production companies
- Oy Bufo Ab
A middle-aged woman, Miina, wakes up early on a Saturday morning. She finds a small plastic bag taped to the window, inside it a faintly bloody human ear. The ear sends Miina back in time to relive her first teenage love affair with Lukas.