more immigrant filmmakers to apply for and get the Finnish film foundation (SES) support.

– Immigrant applicants we have a lot more than previously and this, of course, correlated to the fact that the beneficiaries of the aid is more. In the last 10 years the number has more than doubled, said SES director of Lasse Saarinen.

In 2010, the SES grant to support productions, which was less than 10 immigrant directors, writers or producers. Last year the figure had risen to 25.

Annual production to support distributed projects with directors, scriptwriters and producers a total of about 120-150.

SES the figures of the decline in yle’s request, because the foundation is not statistical to filmmakers by nationality, ethnicity or culture. Calculations are included for all the support and the film in the form of long and short films, documentaries and tv series since 2010.

according to Saarinen, the phenomenon to explain the Finnish society of many cultures what, that appears more and more also on the big screen.

– Finland has changed in recent years, more people from abroad. Some of them are movie-industry training already completed, part of the get it in Finland.

the Phenomenon appears on the big screen particularly clearly in the next year. At that time, will premiere two domestic films, which is expected to much.

director Hamy Ramezan has just received The Oasis of Now:no descriptions completed. Another Finnish director Khadar Ahmed describes the process of east african types in Djibouti movie, the working title from Gravedigger (gravedigger).

Both making their first feature film.

Khadar Ahmed (right.) the control process of The Gravedigger -the working title of the movie in Djibouti. It tells the african grave digger. Portraying is Arttu Peltomaa. Lasse lecklin domestic film diversifies

the Finnish film foundation in an immigrant background factors on reproduction is considered welcome.

Yes, we hope that this hint of inbred country outside viewpoint will help diversify our films range and subject selection, which would make our film production, our heterogeneous more. This has been done clearly, Saarinen said.

from Somalia to Finland at the age of 16 moved to Khadar Ahmed (p. 1981), the upcoming film tells djibouti to the grave digger.

Hamy Ramezan (p. 1979) came to Finland 10-vuoitaat quota refugees in Iran. His films focus on Finland asylum decision waiting for an iranian family in everyday life. The story of the base to partially ramezan’s own experience.

If I were iranian, it would be hard to tell the shah of iran’s family. I use it for strength and culture, but each instructor is an individual whose vision brings something new to the Finnish movie, Ramezan said.

Read more Hamy ramezan about: , “Suddenly I was part of the huge mass that had come to destroy european life” – in finland for 30 years lived director Hamy Ramezan discouraged by the refugee crisis.

the Iranian film culture shows

Lasse Saarinen emphasises that SES does not share money for any kind of quotas, but rather to fund the best own processes.

SES:no support for individual film is significant. It forms about 40% of the funding. The rest have to come from somewhere else. The production end of films, we need to convince also other financiers.

in Finland, will premiere in a couple of dozen long domestic films each year. Next year, among them are both Ramezan that Ahmed movies.

– Ramezan is behind two perfectly successful short films that have toured the world for years. Expectations are very high, Saarinen said.

Saarinen according to the observations of SES:f the application of among the has been a lot of just iranian background factors.

– Iran is a country with a long and glorious film culture. There are several good factors. New has already become ten years and will continue.

Hamy ramezan’s (in the middle) in the new movie asylum decision pending Ramin-the boy plays the Aran Keshvaria. Friend of the family as the mother is seen kristina in the introduction to the theme..Marten Lampén / Yle Humanity cannot be defeated

ramezan’s upcoming film plays the well-known iranian Shahab Hosseini . The film’s screenplay is already an award-winning Finnish Film affair the main beam of zero international interest consider most appropriate Finnish as a process.

the director has taken the expectations, but focus on the now other.

movie-making is so challenging, that the expectations are the last things you think about. It’s more about your own struggle, that you find it the truth or not and it takes all the energy.

the asylum applicant family to tell The Oasis of Now:no he said that he made, because wanted to show something to the audience.

We’re not the people what the news claim. I want people to trust that we are good. Humanity cannot be defeated, Ramezan said.

see also:

“Suddenly I was part of a huge mass, who had come to destroy european life” – in finland for 30 years lived director Hamy Ramezan discouraged by the refugee crisis

the films of Finland’s entire white – Noah Kin: “does Bob have been in movies always Finnish-looking man?”

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