Short films
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?
I’m Listening
- Category
- Short films
- Directors
- Katja Korhonen
- Screenwriters
- Katja Korhonen
- Producers
- Ville Sivonen
- Release year
- 2019
- SES grant
- 32 000 €
- Budget
- 68 000 €
- Production companies
- Takauma osk
In the last hours of the night, Mirja, a Night Radio host, gets a call on the air from Aija, who tells of a possible end of the world. Eventually this unexpected call sets the wheels in motion, starting to break Mirja’s cramped bubble in a way she never would have expected.
Limbo
- Category
- Short films
- Directors
- Nalle Sjöblad
- Screenwriters
- Antero Jokinen
- Producers
- Jani Pösö, Teemu Nikki
- Release year
- 2019
- SES grant
- 32 000 €
- Budget
- 73 000 €
- Production companies
- It's Alive Films
A quiet staircase of an ordinary office building. Two colleagues, Markku, an older accountant, and Eeva, younger HR manager are heading down the stairs, one after another. It turns out that earlier that day, Eeva has had to tell Markku that he has been fired from the company after many years. Markku is bitter and full of rage. Then something unordinary happens.
Are You Hungry?
- Category
- Short films
- Directors
- Teemu Niukkanen
- Screenwriters
- Antti Toivonen, Teemu Niukkanen
- Producers
- Daniel Kuitunen
- Release year
- 2019
- SES grant
- 32 000 €
- Budget
- 72 000 €
- Production companies
- Elokuvayhtiö Komeetta Oy
A single mother struggles to connect with her adopted teenage son, who she believes is gay. Worried that the vulnerable boy will fall victim to older men preying on young boys online, she takes it upon herself to guide him safely through this period of self-exploration by setting him up on a date.
Ashes
- Category
- Short films
- Directors
- Ville Tanttu
- Screenwriters
- Kristofer Möller
- Producers
- Ville Tanttu
- Release year
- 2019
- SES grant
- 31 000 €
- Budget
- 111 000 €
- Production companies
- Studio Lumo
Laura, 52, is wheelchair-bound. She has just lost her 20 years younger brother who was very dear to her. She quarrels with her family regarding her brother’s funeral. To honour his wish, she decides to arrange a different kind of a funeral: to scatter his ashes at sea. This triggers a series of events. With her assistant Anna, she steals the ashes from the urn at the crematorium.