Böhle Studios

Böhle Studios produces animated short films with highest artistic integrity.

We treat short films as an independent form of art, not as a mere training platform for feature films. Our films are created by passionate auteurs, realized with uncompromising production process and carry on the best traditions of animation.

Flower
Show

Courteous formality, allusive sexuality and mysterious nature entwine at the annual flower show. During the celebration, wild flowers are stomped to the ground. In the woods nature and fragile leg hairs continue to grow. The symbolic film portrays a story of three females in different phases of life, confronted with different expectations. It addresses how we have cultivated women like flowers for generations, and it may take many more growing seasons to breed new ways into this system.

 
Director: Elli Vuorinen
Length: 8 minutes
Audience: adult, art house
Status: Premiere coming soon
Production:

Kimmo Sillanmikko
kimmo@bohlestudios.com
+358 45 1215017

Jani Lehto
jani@bohlestudios.com
+358 44 5305536

Sales & Distribution:

Miyu Distribution
sales@miyu.fr
festival@miyu.fr
+33 (0)4 4867 9009

Wrestlers

”Wrestlers” is an emotional and sexual odyssey to the essence of humanness. It is a surreal black comedy spiced up with visual jokes. In the film two athletes confront each other in the most passionate combat of their lives.

”Wrestlers” juxtaposes an intimate relationship with a competitive situation. The heroes balance between love and the pressure cast by the outside world. The film depicts a struggle both in the arena and in everyday life. It deals with the humane side clashing with instinctively pushing through primal urges to hunt and survive.

   
 
Director: Joni Männistö
Length: 17 minutes
Audience: adult, art house
Status: pre-production completed
Production:

Kimmo Sillanmikko
kimmo@bohlestudios.com
+358 45 1215017

Jani Lehto
jani@bohlestudios.com
+358 44 5305536

Nun or
Never!

The nuns living in the convent are happily melted together, doing their daily routines in harmony. One of the nuns finds a man underground while digging potatoes. The nun begins to dream of a man and loses the shared rhythm.

Nun or never is a film about secrets that we all carry with us, more or less hidden. It started from a joke and became a study of standing out from the crowd in an unwanted way, and falling in love with fantasy instead of reality.

 
Director: Heta Jäälinoja
Length: 11 minutes
Audience: all ages, art house
Status: Premiered in Annecy 2023
Production:

Jani Lehto
jani@bohlestudios.com
+358 44 5305536

Sales & Distribution:

Miyu Distribution
sales@miyu.fr
festival@miyu.fr
+33 (0)4 4867 9009

Dollhouse Elephant

Dollhouse Elephant is a dark comedic societal commentary. The film examines the social paradox of wanting to live exactly as you please, but how giving this freedom to others too means having to show compassion and consideration, potentially changing your individualistic ways. The film visualises this by following the lives of a group of neighbours sharing a building. Despite none of the inhabitants making any effort to connect, their different private habits have unforeseen consequences, forcing the neighbours to come together. While some of them learn to change their ways and get a happier life, others are unable or too blind for any real self-insight and eventually return to their old antics.

 
Director: Jenny Jokela
Length: 9 minutes
Status: In development
Production:

Jani Lehto
jani@bohlestudios.com
+358 44 5305536