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Tuffi Films

Helsinki, Finland(approximate location)

Selma Vilhunen is an Academy Award nominated director and screenwriter of both fiction and documentary films. She is also one of the founders of the production company Tuffi Films. Her latest film Stupid Young Heart won the Crystal Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2019. Her feature documentary Hobbyhorse Revolution won the Best Documentary Film Prize at the Finnish National Film Awards (Jussi Awards) and got nominated for the European Film Academy’s Young Audience Award in 2018.

From their site

Images from Tuffi Films’s own website.

Who works there

  • Kirsikka Saariis screenwriter and director based in Helsin
  • Jenni Toivoniemiis a writer-director
  • Academy Awardnominated director and screenwriter of both

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Contact & details

TypeProduction Company · Film · Documentary
Founded2010Wikidata
Founded bySelma Vilhunen, Elli Toivoniemi, Kirsikka Saari, Jenni ToivoniemiWikidata
LocationHelsinki, Finland
Websitetuffifilms.com
Emailtuffi@tuffifilms.com
Statusactive2024 credit i
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How their work is rated

Average rating
5.8IMDb
4.0directory 6.28.0

8 rated titles, weighted by votes

Awards

33 wins from 89 nominations across all awards

Games People Play poster
Highest rated
Games People Play
2020
6.91,827 votes
Korso poster
Lowest rated
Korso
2014
5.1396 votes
Mostly
drama, documentary, short
Active
2014–2024
Rotten Tomatoes
63%
Best known for
Momentum

Ratings and awards from OMDb, matched by title and year across 20 of 36 titles. Unmatched titles are left out rather than guessed. Oscars, Emmys and BAFTAs are itemised; other awards sit in the totals. IMDb counts wins separately from losing nominations, so nominations here is wins plus losses.

Credits24 of 39

36 films

Titles per year36 titles · busiest 2019 with 14

36 titles across 13 years, averaging 2.8 a year. The last five years average 1.2 a year, below their long-run rate.

Quality over time8 rated titles · bigger dots carry more votes
468their average 5.8200020102020

Their 2020s work is their strongest, averaging 6.8 across 3 titles. 6 of 8 rated titles sit above their 5.7 average.

Who they work with

Directors
  • Selma Vilhunen3
  • Jenni Toivoniemi2
  • Aino Suni2
Writers
  • Jenni Toivoniemi3
  • Kirsikka Saari3
  • Selma Vilhunen2
  • Aino Suni2
Notable cast
  • Iida-Maria Heinonen2
Genres
  • Drama12 of 20
  • Documentary6 of 20
  • Short6 of 20
  • Comedy4 of 20
  • Thriller2 of 20

Names appearing on two or more of Tuffi Films’s produced titles, across the 20 matched to OMDb. Cast is the top-billed few OMDb lists per title, so it is notable cast rather than a full cast list. A title can carry more than one genre, so the genre counts overlap.

Works with10 companies

Companies that appear alongside Tuffi Films on the same productions. The number is how many titles they share.

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