Films from the
in‑between.

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01 · Selected

Recent films.

My Name Is Hope

Short fiction 2025 21 min

Inside a Syrian intelligence prison, fragments of memory, voice and small acts of defiance refuse to be silenced.

Director
Sherwan Haji
Producers
Hadi Nikzad, Kari Ahotupa
Awards
Jussi Award · Best Short Film 2025 · HIFF R&A Main Prize
Production
Aalto ELO Film School

Matalapaine

Short fiction 2025 21 min

Fleeing a toxic relationship, a young mother takes refuge at her grandmother's house — and finds the silence between them carries its own weather.

Director
Helmi Donner
Producers
Hadi Nikzad, Sandra Enkvist
Selections
Cannes La Cinéf 2025 · Love & Anarchy Audience Award
Production
Aalto ELO Film School

Je m'appelle Mariia

Short documentary 2024 26 min

A Ukrainian mother and daughter travel from their adopted Finnish home to Paris, where the daughter is to begin her studies — a road movie about displacement and the slow shape of a future.

Director
Juho Reinikainen
Producer
Hadi Nikzad
Selections
Full Frame Doc Fest · DC/DOX · HIFF R&A
Production
Aalto ELO Film School

02 · About

A young company
with a clear north.

Lumina Films is built around a simple idea: that the most cinematic stories often live in the spaces between — between cultures, classes, languages, identities, and systems.

Founded in Helsinki in 2025, the company develops fiction films — features and shorts — with international festival ambition and a strong production foundation in Finland and the Nordics. We believe in slow development, careful collaboration, and a healthier working culture in film.

We are particularly interested in working with Finnish, Nordic, migrant, queer, and diasporic voices — and in stories that hold political weight without sacrificing humour, desire, contradiction, and craft.

03 · Get in touch

For festivals, funders,
collaborators, and press.

We are open to co-productions, co-development conversations, and projects looking for a Finnish creative producing home. Pitches, treatments, and short-form material are read carefully — please give us a few weeks.

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