Feature documentary
78 min

Festivals so far:
CPH:DOX 2020, Special mention

Director: Lotta Petronella

For centuries, a closed institution served as a final destination for socially transgressive women at Själö, an isolated island in the Baltic Sea. The outcast women were kept there in detention to be observed, studied and measured – in much the same way as the scientists now focus on the surrounding nature at the research center the place has been converted to. While a young scientist is collecting samples on the island, the past emerges in the whispers of the unsent letters and empty rooms of the hospital. The space fills up with hidden memories as the invisible archives become alive. Whose stories are remembered and whose are forgotten?  

CREW

Director: Lotta Petronella
Screenwriters: Lotta Petronella, Seppo Parkkinen
Producers: Ilona Tolmunen, Ulla Simonen, Johanna Tarvainen
DOP: Kerttu Hakkarainen
Editors: Matti Näränen, Lotta Petronella
Sound designer: Janne Laine
Music: Lau Nau
Stills: Maija Savolainen

With the support of the Creative Europe Programme - MEDIA of the European Union

Feature documentary
86 min
Premier: CPH:DOX 2020

Director: Jerzy Sladkowski

On a three-week cruise on the river Volga, passengers are looking for an escape from their lives, looking for change – and love. Everyone boards the ship carrying a hope. Inside the ship, the intimacy of the encounters takes viewers of the film on their own emotional journey, into the rivers of two universal human feelings: loneliness and undying hope.

CREW

Director: Jerzy Sladkowski
Photography: Wojciech Staron
Editing: Jakub Sladkowski
Sound recordist: Shamil Ismailov
Gaffer: Viatseslav Tsekin
Producer: Antonio Russo Merenda
Co-Producers: Ulla Simonen, Ilona Tolmunen, Lucyna Kowalska, Dariusz Kowalski
Original Music: Timo Hietala
Sound design: Janne Laine

Feature documentary
2019

Director: Eva Mulvad

It is winter in Istanbul. A plane from Teheran has just landed. A couple, Leila and Sahand, have succeeded in fleeing Iran with their four-year-old son, Mani, without being arrested. In Iran, they committed a crime. Leila and Sahand had a secret love affair while being married to other people, and in Iran, they were not allowed to get divorced. Neither could they tell their son that he was an illegitimate child since adultery can be punished with the death penalty in Iran. So, up till the escape, Mani had only known his biological father as "uncle".

DOP: Lea Glob, Esben Grage, Eva Mulvad, Morten Ranmar, Meryem Yavuz
Sound designer: Heikki Kossi

PRODUCERS
Sigrid Jonsson Dyekjær, Pernille Rose Gronkjaer, Henrik Grunnet, Mikala Krogh, Eva Mulvad, Ilona Tolmunen, Ulla Simonen

PRODUCTION COMPANIES
Danish Documentary (DK)
Made (FIN)
Grunnet Film (DK)

SALES AGENT
Autlook Filmsales GmbH

Short Film / 16 min
2019

Director/screenwriter/music: Lauri-Matti Parppei

Two best friends, Minna and Ina, are spending their last summer together, working as gardeners. In the night, they visit other people’s houses while the residents are sleeping. However, the summer is soon over, and in the autumn Ina will move away.

CREW
Producer: Ilona Tolmunen
Script: Lauri-Matti Parppei
DOP: Mikko Parttimaa
Editor: Dimitri Okulov
Sound: Tiia Vestola
Set designer: Nanna Hirvonen
Costume designer & make-up: Kaisa Pohjola

CAST
Maaria Nuoranne, Ella Lymi

Festivals:
Tampere Film Festival 2019

With the support of the Creative Europe Programme - MEDIA of the European Union

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Feature fiction /  90 min
2019

Director: Lee Cronin

Trying to escape a broken past, Sarah O’Neill is rebuilding her life on the fringes of a backwood rural town with her young son Chris. Following the discovery of a mysterious sinkhole in the vast forest bordering their new home, Sarah must battle to unearth if the disturbing changes that begin to manifest in her little boy are a transformation driven by something more sinister and threatening than her own maternal fears

CREW
Directed by
LEE CRONIN

Written by
LEE CRONIN
STEPHEN SHIELDS

Produced by
JOHN KEVILLE
CONOR BARRY

Co-produced by
BENOÎT ROLAND
ULLA SIMONEN

Costume Designer
SAIJA SIEKKINEN

Make Up and Hair Designer
SALLA YLI-LUOPA

CAST

SARAH  SEÁNA KERSLAKE
CHRIS JAMES QUINN MARKEY
NOREEN KATI OUTINEN
TEACHER DAVID CROWLEY
LOUISE SIMONE KIRBY
ROB STEVE WALL
JAY EOIN MACKEN
LIL SARAH HANLY
DOCTOR ANDREW BENNETT
DESJAMES COSMO
DECTIVE JOHN QUINN
“it”MIRO LOPPERI

Festivals:
Sundance

PRESS

Feature Documentary  / 95 min

Director: Jerzy Sladkowski

A four-sided love triangle, spiced with autism, neuroses and life crises in the Russian city of Nizhny Novgorod. The 22-year-old autistic young man Oleg is seeking approval and love. He is surrounded by many who want to help him, but no-one succeeds. Suddenly help comes from an unexpected direction. 

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Short Film / 13 min
2016

Director: Jani Ilomäki

A teenage boy wonder what love is.

CREW
Director: Jani Ilomäki
Producer: Ilona Tolmunen
Script: Mikko Parttimaa, Jani Ilomäki
DOP: Mikko Parttimaa
Editor: Jussi Sandhu
Sound designer: Toni Teivaala 
Music: Pekka Koivisto
Set designer: Santtu Toivola
Costume designer: Laura Malinen

CAST
Kasper Westin, Lilith Rautiainen, Sini Putkonen, Juhani Hodju, Kimmo Puhakka

FESTIVALS:

2018
Tokyo Lift-Off Film Festival Online , Tokyo - Japan
Beloit International Film Festival , Beloit - USA

2017
Ale Kino! , Pozan - Poland
Boston Film Festival, Boston - USA
Dublin International Short Film and Music Festival, Dublin - Ireland
BUFF Filmfestival, Malmö - Sweden 
Live at Heart, Örebro  Sweden

2016
Mo & Friese KinderKurzFilmFestival, May 29th - June 5th 2016,  Hamburg - Germany
20min|max International Short Film Festival, June 4th - June 10th 2016,  Ingolstadt - Germany
Love and Anarchy, Sept 16th / Helsinki - Finland
Nordisk Panorama, Malmö - Sweden
Reykjavik International Film festival , Reykjavik - Iceland
58th Nordic Film Days Lübeck , Lübeck - Germany

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Short Film / 30 min

Director: Hannaleena Hauru
2015 / Theatrical release: 2015 in Finland.

An absurd byproduct of mass murders perpetrated in Finland over the last several years has been public discussion where lack of female companionship (in the carnal sense) was named as a potential prime catalyst and responsibility for the murders placed squarely on young women. Mercy All the Way takes a satirical hammer to this discussion. The movie’s black humor makes you laugh out loud, but at times the humor will just make you choke.

In the movie some older women working at the employment office have started to covertly offer pity sex to young men who seem to be under threat of becoming marginalized in order to prevent any future mass murders. Everything’s going swimmingly and some younger reserves have been recruited, too. When middle-aged Mirja, who is very dedicated to her job, is given the pleasant-smelling but slothful Marko as a client, events take a surprising turn and chaos ensues.

Festivals:
Kuopion Vilimit -elokuvafestivaali, 3. lokakuuta 2015
Rakkautta&Anarkiaa, Helsinki International Film Festival, Fri 25 September 2015
Nordisk Panorama, 18-23 September 2015, Malmö, Sweden
Shnit International Short Film Festival, 7-18 October, Bangkok, Bern, Buenos Aires, Cairo, Cape Town, Kyoto, Moscow, New York and San José
Brest European Short Film Festival, 10-15 November 2015, Brest, France.
Blue Sea Film Festival, Sun 23 August 2015, Rauma, Finland
Artova Film Festival, 5 September 2015, Helsinki, Finland
Guanajuato International Film Festival, 20-24 July 2015, Guanajuato, Mexico.
FEST – New Directors | New Films Festival, Espinho, Portugal, 22-29 June 2015
Midnight Sun Film Festival, Sodankylä, Finland, 10-14 June 2015
Brussels Short Film Festival, 23 April – 3 May 2015, International Competition, Belgium.Programme: International 2
Tampere Film Festival, Finland, 4-8 March 2015, special prize
Brussels Short Film Festival 2015
Midnight Sun Film Festival 2015

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WEB

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Short Film / 9 min

Director: Aino Suni
2015

Twelve-year-old girl Sini has an internet-crush, who proposes a date. She ducks out of her parents’ party to meet him at a turnaround. There a thirty-year-old man, Henri, is waiting. Sini lies about her age and for a brief moment Sini feels like she is living her dream: sitting next to Henri, driving through the neighbourhood. When Henri parks the car on a forest road, she realizes she is expected to redeem an unspoken promise. 

Turnaround is a short film directed by Aino Suni and produced by Ilona Tolmunen. Together with cinematographer Kerttu Hakkarainen this is their second short film. Their first short film, Wolf Carver was selected to Clermont-Ferrand Film Festival in 2011. Turnaround was developed in Nisi-Masa European Short Pitch 2014.

International sales: AdAstra Films

Festivals: 

2015
December
Festival Tous Courts, France

November
57th Nordic Film Days Lübeck, Germany
Braunschweig International Film Festival, Germany
Oulun lasten ja nuorten elokuvien festivaali, Oulu, Finland
FILMETS Badalona Film Festival 2015, Barcelona, Spain

October
#FAQiff Feminist and Queer International Film Festival, Romania
World of Film International Festival Glasgow, UK

Sebtember
Love & Anarchy 2015, Finland
Sarajevo Fim Festival 2015, Bosnia-Hertzegovina
Concorto Film Festival, Itraly

PRESS

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WEB

turnaroundfilm.com

Feature documentary / 73 min

Director: Virpi Suutari
2014 / Theatrical release in Finland

GARDEN LOVERS looks behind the hedge of couples who have a passion for gardening. The humorous film is a declaration of love to beauty and healing power of their gardens. Beautiful and magical pictures flow into their relationships, conflicts and joys. The garden depicts the many ways in which life can flourish; it gives strength and unites, but it also becomes a meeting place for farewells.

Festivals: 
Visions du Reél 2014
Nordisk Panorama 2014
Midnight Sun Film Festival 2014
Seattle International Film Festival 2014
Krakow Film Festival 2014
DOXA 2014
Tromsø International film Festival 2015

Awards: 
Jussi-award 2014: The Best Documentary Film, The Best Music

Nomination: 
PRIX Europa 2015