Short films
Close to Me
- Category
- Short films
- Directors
- Joonas Rutanen
- Screenwriters
- Joonas Rutanen
- Producers
- Kaarle Aho
- Release year
- 2019
- SES grant
- 70 000 €
- Budget
- 128 000 €
- Production companies
- Making Movies Oy
A road movie taking place in Eastern Helsinki. A story about two lonely hearts and a relationship that is about to stop before it has even started.
Silent as Murderers
- Category
- Short films
- Directors
- Lauri-Matti Parppei
- Screenwriters
- Lauri-Matti Parppei
- Producers
- Ilona Tolmunen
- Release year
- 2019
- SES grant
- 69 000 €
- Budget
- 101 000 €
- Production companies
- Made
20-year-old Minna and Ina are spending their summer vacations in a wealthy residental area. At nights they are secretly visiting others homes while people are sleeping. They are invisible to people whose lifestyle they admire and despise at the same time. They are offered to feed a cat of a family and they get the keys to an empty house. Escaping from reality becomes more realistic than real life. When girls become more like each others, Minna wants run away from the symbiosis.
Two Bodies on a Beach
- Category
- Short films
- Directors
- Anna Paavilainen
- Screenwriters
- Anna Paavilainen, Laura Birn
- Producers
- Mark Lwoff, Misha Jaari
- Release year
- 2019
- SES grant
- 80 000 €
- Budget
- 160 000 €
- Production companies
- Oy Bufo Ab
A woman wakes up on a beach tied in a plastic press wearing only underwear and high heels. “Not again”, she sighs and decides to track down the enemy and strike back. She gets a companion from an older woman who has been pushed to the borders of society. During their journey through classical cinematic landscapes these nameless women from different generations struggle to connect and understand each other’s perspectives while their passion for men and male attention gets in away.
Super Comfort
- Category
- Short films
- Directors
- Kirsikka Saari
- Screenwriters
- Kirsikka Saari
- Producers
- Sanna Kultanen, Elli Toivoniemi
- Release year
- 2019
- SES grant
- 35 000 €
- Budget
- 67 000 €
- Production companies
- Tuffi Films Oy
Taina, in her fifties, is expecting her son for a visit, but the family is no longer what it used to be.
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.
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.