Short films
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.
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.
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.
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.
Allas
- Category
- Short films
- Directors
- PV Lehtinen
- Screenwriters
- PV Lehtinen
- Producers
- PV Lehtinen
- Release year
- 2023
- SES grant
- 77 000 €
- Budget
- 120 000 €
- Production companies
- CineParadiso
A speechless story of a young boy in a skeleton costume and his father’s swimming trip to a lido. It seems like an ordinary trip until a strange woman with sunglasses joins the father at the pool.
Night of the Living Dicks
- Category
- Short films
- Directors
- Ilja Rautsi
- Screenwriters
- Ilja Rautsi
- Producers
- Mark Lwoff, Misha Jaari
- Release year
- 2021
- SES grant
- 110 000 €
- Budget
- 200 400 €
- Production companies
- Oy Bufo Ab
A horror comedy about Venla who’s tired of having gender and sex always rubbed against her face everywhere. She ends up with a pair of glasses that show all the men who are real dicks, their heads literally giant penises with faces. The dickhead monsters notice that she now recognizes them and chase Venla and her friend Kata, who’s the opposite of Venla when it comes to men and sex. They not only need to survive the Night of the Living Dicks, but also find out what the dicks want.
Reconstruction
- Category
- Short films
- Directors
- Pia Andell
- Screenwriters
- Pia Andell
- Release year
- 2021
- SES grant
- 94 300 €
- Budget
- 177 000 €
- Production companies
- Of Course My Films
A dance film based on true events depicts the year 1982 and tells the story of two 17 year olds Lassi and Pia who venture in a party at a hotel like Hansel and Gretel and find their way to witch’s room, room 332.
Turbulent Waters
- Category
- Short films
- Directors
- Elena Näsänen
- Screenwriters
- Elena Näsänen
- Producers
- Danai Anagnostou
- Release year
- 2022
- SES grant
- 69 000 €
- Budget
- 11 500 €
- Production companies
- Kenno Filmi
Turbulent Waters follows three lookalike young women in different parts of Europe ruined by rains, drought and storm. Their lives are surprisingly intertwined. It is a contemporary ghost story that deals with global environmental destabilisation through the intersection of three stories.