Short films
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
- Bufo Oy
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.
Lizard Brain
- International co-production SE-FI
- Category
- Short films
- Directors
- Elisabeth Marjanović Cronvall
- Screenwriters
- Elisabeth Marjanović Cronvall
- Producers
- Cecilia Björk, Emilia Haukka
- Release year
- 2022
- SES grant
- 12 000 €
- Budget
- 128 000 €
- Production companies
- Elokuvayhtiö Aamu
The brain expert Jakob has built a career out of traveling the country giving lectures on how to achieve success. In his world, even the most painful of experiences can be turned into a sellable story. But when he arrives at the job coaching company MATCH to help the unemployed people there, his well polished surface starts to crack. Can you really solve any problem just by having the right attitude?
In Dreams
- Category
- Short films
- Directors
- Pete Riski
- Screenwriters
- Avi Heikkinen
- Producers
- John Lundsten, Melli Maikkula
- Release year
- 2021
- SES grant
- 77 000 €
- Budget
- 110 000 €
- Production companies
- TACK Films Oy
The daughter of a single father keeps mysteriously disappearing every time she falls asleep.
Two Girls and a Boat
- Category
- Short films
- Directors
- Aleksi Delikouras
- Screenwriters
- Aleksi Delikouras
- Producers
- Julia Elomäki
- Release year
- 2021
- SES grant
- 55 000 €
- Budget
- 96 000 €
- Production companies
- Tekele Productions Oy
Twins Jade and Kaisa are going for a rowing trip on a beautiful Finnish summer day. Social media influencer Jade has actually something else in mind and the trip doesn’t end up as planned.
The Human Torch
- Category
- Short films
- Directors
- Risto-Pekka Blom
- Screenwriters
- Risto-Pekka Blom
- Producers
- Pasi Hakkio, Niina Virtanen
- Release year
- 2022
- SES grant
- 15 000 €
- Budget
- 37 000 €
- Production companies
- Wacky Tie Films
We have acted as a society should act. We have followed the rules. We do not mock or belittle people who are different. But it is not acceptable to come here and disturb the order and stir up a lot of shouting at a hot dog stall.
The Human Torch is a one-shot short film about traffic lights at night, where respectable people wait for the lights to change, even though the street is empty. The film is about the loss of a sense of security in an uncontrollably changing world.
Rabobesto – Or How I Saved a Monster
- Category
- Short films
- Directors
- Mari Mantela
- Screenwriters
- Mari Mantela
- Producers
- Roosa Stenroos
- Release year
- 2022
- SES grant
- 40 000 €
- Budget
- 61 000 €
- Production companies
- Inland Film Company Oy
On the verge of her marital life, a young woman makes a journey into the night to find out why she has lost her heartbeat and turned golden.
The story of Rabobesto – Or How I Saved a Monster deals with coping in an adult life molded by the past with an alcoholic parent.