How does it feel to live next to 170-year-old creatures? This short impressionistic film documents an old forest area called Mortin männikkö in Rovaniemi, Northern Finland. Through an array of glimpses and moments, the film tries to summarise a decade of life next to this vivid, forested tableau vivant.
Read more »Saara Ekström‘s Amnion (2023) is part of LABOCINE‘s June 2026 issue Borders. This issue invites films that explore borders across scales—biological membranes, political frontiers, cultural lines, perceptual limits. Landfills on the fringes of cities reveal all about our culture, habits,… Read more »
Sandra Lola Dada‘s work Elisabeth has been selected to join What’s Your Flavor?, the queer and experimental catalog of Collectif Jeune Cinéma (CJC). The collective also runs the Festival des cinémas différents et expérimentaux de Paris. CJC is organizing a… Read more »
Risto-Pekka Blom‘s Too Blue a Sky is selected for OFF – Odense International Film Festival, taking place from August 24–30, 2026 in Odense, Denmark. The film is screened in the documentary competition DOC3. OFF – Odense International Film Festival is… Read more »
A TV host on a children's traffic show presents drawings submitted to a competition with the theme 'Draw a child who has been in a traffic accident.' An improvised, one-shot performance.
Read more »Matti Harju‘s film Yaris, Varis (Yaris, Crow) received a Special Mention in Videoex 2026 International Competition from the jury. The jury appreciated the film “for its surprisingly playful way of showing us scenes from the group of young Finnish men… Read more »
AV-arkki will launch a webinar series in spring 2026 that offers a comprehensive introduction to the association’s activities. The series is aimed especially at new artists in the AV-arkki archive, as well as artists and collaborators interested in AV-arkki’s work…. Read more »
Matti Harju‘s film Yaris, Crow (2026) has been selected for the International Competition of Videoex, taking place from May 22–31, 2026 in Zürich, Switzerland. Videoex is Switzerland’s largest festival dedicated to experimental film and video. Yaris, Varis (Yaris, Crow) (2026)… Read more »
Three actors are competing for the role of a vampire on the stage of Mystero, a theatre specialised in the horror genre. The director of the play surprises everyone with an unexpected twist.
Read more »Sini Pelkki‘s work Embarkation (2012) will be screened as part of the film programme Artist’s Choice: “Fragments: A Selection of Artists’ Films”, curated by artist Paul Kuimet and created in dialogue with the exhibition Exploded View at Kai Art Center…. Read more »
Martta Tuomaala‘s Am I Calling You at a Bad Time? has been selected for the International Competition at Leiden Shorts film festival. The festival takes place from May 29–June 2, 2026 in Leiden, the Netherlands. X is growing up in… Read more »
Jonna Kina‘s Arr. for a Scene (featured image) and Nastja Säde Rönkkö‘s Those Who Kept the Light / Seaweed are now streaming on the online platform THIS IS SHORT. The European streaming platform THIS IS SHORT was jointly launched by… Read more »
A bruise appears on the cheek of a ceramic statue; it starts small and pink, then expands and turns bluish. As the bruise spreads, a web of cracks appears on the surface of the ceramic. The beauty of the hairline fractures and the violence of the bruise create a paradoxical sense of threat.
Read more »Productive Unit (Unidad Productiva) presents an open but revealing history of the political capacity of the Unemployed Workers Movement in ArgentinaThe film merges archival documents and experimental film to evaluate both the subject and the way of communicating it.
Read more »Oblivion is an experimental, hand-drawn chalkboard animation. The work explores forgetting and the difficulty of recollection. What are our memories made of, are they merely ghost-like flashes from the subconscious?
Martta Tuomaala‘s Am I Calling You at a Bad Time? has been selected for the 21st International Labor Film Festival taking place from May 2-10, 2026 in Istanbul, Ankara, and Izmir, Turkey. X is growing up in the 1990s. As… Read more »
Pilvi Takala‘s Real Snow White will be screened as part of the Videos programme, a 12 night programme of artist’s films across 4 weekends, by the independent gallery Numbers in Sydney, Australia. The screening series take place from April 17… Read more »
Erkka Nissinen‘s Monday (2026) (featured image) and Martta Tuomaala‘s Am I Calling You at a Bad Time? (2025) have been selected for the 20th Flatpack Festival. Both films are screened in the Short Film Competition: Growing Up. The festival takes… Read more »
Growth explores the tension between human creativity and artificial intelligence through the metaphor of growth. In the piece, vegetation begins to sprout from a woman, threatening to cover her entirely.
Read more »Pilvi Takala‘s work Real Snow White will be screened as part of the programme “This Is Not a Documentary” Retrospective at the 23rd edition of IndieLisboa. The programme is dedicated to the mockumentary—a genre that blurs the lines between fiction… Read more »
Sanna Liljander‘s film When Will the Day Break (2024) won the Blickfang Prize awarded for the Best International Experimental Film at the Filmfest Schleswig-Holstein. The festival took place from 17-21 March, 2026 in Kiel, Germany. The jury described the film… Read more »