Sari is desperate for a promotion and works hard, but nothing goes according to plan. On her way to up the corporate ladder, she runs into some serious obstacles. Written by Sanna Stellan, Produced by Annika Sucksdorf, Helsinki-Filmi.
Short fiction, 9 minutes, 2015.
Cast
Sanna Stellan
Heikki Silvennoinen
Jussi Vatanen
Armi Toivanen
Eeva Litmanen
Festivals
Helsinki International Film Festival 2015
A tormented soul on a empty street in Kigali begins to tell a story of survival. Men wash the bones of the killed in order to give them a burial. A woman with no legs dances for God, to find meaning. A 2.0 film about the 1994 Genocide of Rwanda. Co-directed with Rwandese director Yves Niyongabo. Broadcasted and co-produced by YLE primetime documentary.
Iris Olsson is also the cinematographer of this film.
Documentary film, 45 minutes, 2011.
AWARDS
BEST DOCUMENTARY Tampere Film Festival 2012
BEST FILM DokLeipzig Youth Jury Prize 2011
HONORARY MENTION Finnish Short and Documentary Film Festival 2012
A film about dreams and dreaming on the Trans-Siberian train running across Russia. Produced by NisiMasa.
Short documentary film, 9 minutes, 2009
AWARDS
EFA BEST EUROPEAN SHORT FILM NOMINATION Grimstad 2009
BEST STUDENT FILM Tampere Short Film Festival 2009
HONORARY MENTION Tampere Short Film Festival 2009
HONORARY MENTION Nordisk Panorama 2009
SPECIAL JURY PRIZE Silverdocs 2010
BEST SHORT FILM Dokma Film Festival 2009
Svetlana lives in a orphanage in Karelia, Russia. She has been given the chance to spend her holiday in a family across the border in Finland. Without a shared language a couple wanting to do good and a child without future prospects spend a life changing summer together. Broadcasted by YLE, Primetime Documentary.
Documentary film, 60 minutes, 2009.
AWARDS
PRESIDENT'S AWARD Full Frame 2009
TROMSO PALM Tromso International Film Festival 2009
DOCUMENTARY PRIZE Finnish Short Film Festival 2009
BEST FILM Eugenia Movie Movement 2009
BEST MID LENGHT DOCUMENTARY FINALIST Hot Docs 2009
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Documentary film about parachut jumping and facing the fear of living.
Short documentary film, 11 minutes, 2004.
AWARDS
HONORARY MENTION Helsinki Short Film Festival 2005
What does a cellist, teacher and art director have in common? This documentary tells a story of three high successors who burnedout before they turned 30. Produced and Broadcasted by YLE.
Television documentary, 28 minutes, 2009.
Television documentary with interviews and archive footage about the first Finnish MIG fighter pilots. They were taken on a highly secretive mission in Kyrgyzstan, Soviet Union, on the edge of the Cold War to train to fly at MACH speed. Produced and broadcasted by YLE.
Television documentary, 28 minutes, 2010.
Director Iris Olsson +358 40 5095812 olssoniris (a) gmail.com