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**STRIVE**
COMING IN 2025. A Sci-fi short film. Follow more Instagram: @strive_shortfilm
In a world where everyone escapes reality, a teenage boy named Toni longs to experience something real, even if it becomes his undoing. You cannot find yourself without getting some scars.
**WRITER,DIRECTOR,EDITOR**: Jussi Rautaniemi
**CINEMATOGRAPHY**: Peter Flinckenberg F.S.C
**PRODUCTION DESIGN**: Ville Grönroos
**COSTUME DESIGN**: Riina Leea Nieminen
**MAKE-UP DESIGN**: Alice Corre
**VFX DESIGN**: Olli Leppänen
**MUSIC**: Timo Kaukolampi
**SOUND DESIGN**: Karri Niinivaara
**CAST**: Vilho Rönkkönen, Kuura Rossi, Laura Birn, Roderick Kabanga, Pekka Strang
**PRODUCERS**: Misha Jaari, Mark Lwoff

RED BALL (2020). 4 minute short film. A 6-year-old boy plays alone, waiting for his father. He talks to his father through a walkie talkie, but gets no answer. Something is not right. The world is about to end.

A Boy and a Killer (2021) This story pictures a small boy who gets distracted on his way to school and wanders around the neighbourhood not knowing that at the same time also a killer is on the loose in the same area.

GREEN TEA LEAVES (2009)
A short documentary about green tea and about a tearoom in the center of Prague.