Founded in 2007 and led by producers Misha Jaari and Mark Lwoff, Bufo has produced a number of films of which many have received international recognition. Based in Helsinki, the ambitious and thrill-seeking company concentrates on plot-driven and meaningful stories that can also entertain big audiences. Bufo’s films all share the elements of clear artistic vision, innovation and high quality.
Bufo has produced such films as Aki Kaurismäki’s Berlinale Silver Bear Winner The Other Side of Hope (2017, co-produced with Sputnik), Academy Award winner Jörn Donner’s Armi Alive! (2015) and The Interrogation (2010), and Pirjo Honkasalo’s Concrete Night (Finland’s official entry for the Oscars and Golden Globes in 2014). Furthermore, Bufo has been involved in a number of international co-productions, such as Tarik Saleh’s Boy from Heaven (best screenplay award at Cannes 2022) and Oscar Nominee Eskil Vogt’s The Innocents (world premiere in Cannes 2021).
Bufo’s latest productions include Khadar Ayderus Ahmed‘s multiple award-winning The Gravedigger’s Wife (Somalia’s official entry for the Oscars in 2022) and Akseli Tuomivaara’s mystery drama series Next of Kin (2022). In addition, Bufo is releasing Saara Saarela’s dystopian drama Memory of Water (based on Emmi Itäranta’s successful novel) in 2022.
The Squirrel, written and directed by Markus Lehmusruusu, will begin its shooting next week. The warmhearted film is set in an absurd future world and tells a story of a man called Pasi, a man completely estranged from nature, who encounters the last living squirrel of the world. In the
Saara Saarela’s dystopic drama Memory of Water, based on the best selling novel by Emmi Itäranta, will have its international premiere at Hof International Film Festival in Germany later this month. From there the film will travel to Trieste Science+Fiction Festival, where it will compete from the festival’s Asteroid award
Khadar Ayderus Ahmed’s The Gravedigger’s Wife has been awarded with the prestigious main award, The Golden Stallion, at the Pan-African film festival in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. The jury was chaired by Mauritanian film director Abderrahmane Sissako. 17 feature films were in the competition, and altogether 1132 films were submitted. Sissako
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