Anna Antsalo & Jenni-Elina von Bagh‘s film Everything Is Right Before was awarded the Best Film in the Multiplié Dance Film Nordic Competition at the Minimalen Short Film Festival. The festival took place January 13–18, 2026 in Trondheim, Norway. In… Read more »
Elina Saloranta’s A Letter from Elli part of DINAMO’s screening at IFFR 2026
Elina Saloranta‘s film A Letter from Elli (2019) is part of DINAMO’s short film screening programme Exposure/Obscurity at the upcoming International Film Festival Rotterdam. The video is based on a letter written by the Finnish singer Elli Forssell-Rozentāle in August… Read more »
Marja Viitahuhta & Ánnámáret’s Vuoiŋŋat (Spirits) wins Best Nordic Art Film and Elli Vuorinen’s Flower Show Best Nordic Animation at the Minimalen Short Film Festival 2026
Marja Viitahuhta & Ánnámáret‘s Vuoiŋŋat (Spirits) (featured image) won the Best Nordic Art Film award and Elli Vuorinen‘s Flower Show the Best Nordic Animation at the Minimalen Short Film Festival. The festival took place January 13–18, 2026 in Trondheim, Norway…. Read more »
Azar Saiyar’s My Home part of LABOCINE’s January 2026 issue Archives
Azar Saiyar‘s My Home (2022) is part of LABOCINE‘s January 2026 issue Archives. The issue presents films that reshape memory and revive what already exists—images found, recorded, preserved, or reimagined. “A bee stung me on my finger. It happened yesterday… Read more »
Films by Niina Suominen, Jukka Silokunnas and Sanna Liljander in the programme of the 39th Stuttgarter Filmwinter – Festival for Expanded Media (Jan 14–21, 2026)
Niina Suominen‘s Smoking Spot (featured image), Jukka Silokunnas‘ D/Composition and Sanna Liljander‘s When Will The Day Break will are selected for the 39th Stuttgarter Filmwinter – Festival for Expanded Media, taking place from January 14–21, 2026 in Stuttgart, Germany. Smoking… Read more »
Pilvi Takala’s Feeling Defensive (Part 1), Heidi Piiroinen’s I am a River and Matti Harju’s Nox selected for the 55th International Film Festival Rotterdam, (29 Jan–8 Feb, 2026), Netherlands
Pilvi Takala‘s Feeling Defensive (Part 1) (featured image), Heidi Piiroinen‘s I am a River and Matti Harju‘s Nox will be screened at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), held from January 29–February 8, 2026 in Rotterdam, Netherlands. I am a… Read more »
Several AV-arkki’s artists’ films compete at the 38th Minimalen Short Film Festival (Jan 13–18, 2026), Trondheim, Norway
Timo Bredenberg‘s You Saw Nothing (featured image), Risto-Pekka Blom‘s Invasive Species, Marja Viitahuhta & Ánnámáret‘s Vuoiŋŋat (Spirits), Juha van Ingen‘s Monumental, Marja Helander &Liselotte Wajstedt‘s In My Hand and Elli Vuorinen‘s Flower Show will compete in the Nordic Competition at… Read more »
Taija Goldblatt’s Ocean’s Skeleton part of the group exhibition Raging Vigil at Les Instants Vidéo 2025, Marseille, France
Taija Goldblatt’s installation Ocean’s Skeleton is part of the exhibition Raging Vigil at Les Instants Vidéo 2025, in Marseille France. The exhibition runs through January 11th, 2026 at La Friche la Belle de Mai. Ocean’s Skeleton (2024) is an animation… Read more »
Room for a Break
Laura Böök
New work
Exploring changes in our working lives through everyday spaces, the documentary short film depicts breaks in a think tank, a construction site container, a museum, and a midwives’ break room, among others. A break expands into a question of space and time: who can take one, in what kinds of settings breaks occur, and... Read more »
Poverty saves
Juhani Koivumäki
New work
The short documentary film Poverty Saves tells about Pentti-Otto Koskinen (b.1952), a performance artist who after abandoning the art world, proclaims that poverty saves.
Read more »Moses
Jenni Luhta Lauri Luhta
New work
Entombed in a dark place, surrounded by the rising threat of antisemitism, the elderly Freud, ever the heroic atheist, attempts as his final deed to come to terms with the origin of monotheistic faith and the religion of his ancestors.
Read more »Niin oli minunkin laitani – an exchange of letters
Elina Saloranta
New work
This piece presents a kind of early 1900s MeToo conversation. The soundtrack consists of two letters written by the singer Elli Forssell-Rozentāle (1871–1943) and her sister, the violinist Anna Forssell (1882–1970). The image track features portraits of the sisters seen through a veil of clouds, which were... Read more »
Marja Viitahuhta & Ánnámáret’s Bálvvosbáiki and Marja Helander & Liselotte Wajstedt’s In My Hand screened at Arctic Shorts Film Evening (Dec 1st, 2025), Brussels, Belgium
Marja Viitahuhta & Ánnámáret‘s Bálvvosbáiki (featured image) and Marja Helander & Liselotte Wajstedt‘s In My Hand will be screened at the 7th Arctic Shorts Film Evening on December 1st, 2025 in Brussels, Belgium. Arctic Shorts is an official side event… Read more »
Sophia Ehrnrooth’s To be somebody in life premieres at FIDBA 2025 – International Documentary Film Festival (Nov 24–30, 2025), Buenos Aires, Argentina
Sophia Ehrnrooth‘s To be somebody in life will premiere at the FIDBA 2025 – International Documentary Film Festival taking place from November 24–30, 2025 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. FIDBA is biggest documentary film festival of Iberoamerica, and the first international… Read more »
Milja Viita’s Seafearers (SKÖNÄRIT) wins Best Documentary Film award at Experimental Superstars 2025
Milja Viita‘s Seafearers (SKÖNÄRIT) won the award for Best Documentary Film at the international film festival Experimental Superstars, which took place from November 13–15, 2025 in Novi Sad, Serbia. The jury members include artists from the wide spectrum of visual… Read more »
Appu Jasu’s When Andromeda and Milky Way Embrace and Pink Twins’ Firewalk selected to Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin (Nov 24–30, 2025), Paris, France
Appu Jasu‘s When Andromeda and Milky Way Embrace (featured image) and Pink Twins‘ Firewalk will be screened at the Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin taking place from November 24–30, 2025 in Paris, France. In When Andromeda and Milky Way Embrace (2024) lone… Read more »
Saara Ekström’s Body All Eyes screened as part of Light Cone’s ENTANGLE: STRING FIGURES screening on November 18, 2025 in Paris, France
Saara Ekström‘s Body All Eyes is included in the screening titled ENTANGLE: STRING FIGURES, taking place on November 18, 2025 at 20:30 in Paris, France. The screening is part of Light Cone’s Scratch Collection #4: Sowing Trouble programme. The programme… Read more »
Milja Viita’s Seafearers (SKÖNÄRIT) selected to Experimental Superstars (Nov 13–15, 2025), Novi Sad, Serbia
Milja Viita‘s Seafearers (SKÖNÄRIT) will be screened at the international festival of experimental film Experimental Superstars, taking place from November 13–15, 2025 in Novi Sad, Serbia. Seafearers (2025) is a collage film about seafarers based on archival footage shot around… Read more »
Charlotte Clermont’s du soleil, que ca existe and Panu Johansson’s Wherever Street Piece screened at ANALOGICA 15 (Nov 12–16, 2025), Bolzano, Italy
Charlotte Clermont’s du soleil, que ca existe (featured image) and Panu Johansson‘s Wherever Street Piece will be screened at the ANALOGICA 15, held from November 12–16, 2025 in Bolzano, Italy. du soleil, que ça existe (2025) examines the temporalities through… Read more »
Martta Tuomaala’s Am I Calling You at A Bad Time competes at ZINEBI – International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao (Nov 21–28, 2025), Spain
Martta Tuomaala‘s Am I Calling You at A Bad Time will compete at ZINEBI – International Festival of Documentary and Short Film of Bilbao, held from November 21–28, 2025 in Bilbao, Spain. Am I Calling You at A Bad Time… Read more »
Samira Elagoz & Z Walsh’s You can’t get what you want but you can get me screened at MIX NYC and The Montreal International Documentary Festival (RIDM) in November 2025
Samira Elagoz & Z Walsh‘s You can’t get what you want but you can get me will be screened ath MIX NYC as part of the screening An Essence to Ooze on November 22, 2025. The festival takes place in… Read more »
Survey for AV-arkki’s artists
Dear AV-arkki’s artists and association members, Help us develop AV-arkki’s operations! We are collecting information to evaluate and develop AV-arkki’s operations. Answering the survey takes about 10 minutes, and most of the questions are multiple-choice. The cuts to the cultural… Read more »
Parting
Seppo Renvall
New work
In the expressionistic short film, contemporary classical orchestration meets abstract imagery, inspired by Eino Leino's poem Erotessa.
Read more »Milja Viita’s Seafearers (SKÖNÄRIT) to be screened at the European Film Festival SCANORAMA (Nov 6–23, 2025), Lithuania
Milja Viita‘s experimental documentary Seafearers (SKÖNÄRIT) will be screened at the European Film Festival Scanorama, taking place from November 6–23, 2025 in 10 cities across Lithuania: Vilnius, Kaunas, Klaipėda, Šiauliai, Alytus, Panevėžys, Marijampolė, Visaginas, Vilkaviškis and Gargždai. Seafearers will be… Read more »
Pasi Autio’s Feel the Heat to be featured in the Special Programme ‘Disco Is Not Dead’ at the 29th Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur (November 4–9, 2025)
Pasi Autio‘s Feel the Heat will be screened at the 29th Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur as part of a Special Programme Disco is not Dead. The festival takes place from November 4–9, 2025 in Winterthur, Switzerland. Feel the Heat (2022) depicts… Read more »
Films by Pasi ‘Sleeping’ Myllymäki, Eino Ruutsalo and Ulla Väätäinen & Liisa Karvonen screened at the 29th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival (Oct 24–Nov 2, 2025), Czech Republic
Pasi ‘Sleeping’ Myllymäki‘s Omena The Apple (featured image), Eino Ruutsalo‘s Food and Ulla Väätäinen & Liisa Karvonen‘s Land’s End to be screened at the 29th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival as part of the section Fascinations: Food. This section presents… Read more »
Films by Pink Twins, Lau Rämö, Marjo Levlin, Maija Blåfield and Ewa Górzna & Katarzyna Miron screened at the Animal Nature Future Film Festival (Oct 15–Nov 23, 2025) London, UK and Shanghai, China
Pink Twins‘ Firewalk, Lau Rämö’s Anima, Marjo Levlin‘s Underdog, Maija Blåfield‘s Scenic View and Ewa Górzna & Katarzyna Miron‘s Watchful will be screened at the Animal Nature Future Film Festival, held from October 15–November 23, 2025 in London, UK and… Read more »
Eino Ruutsalo’s Kinetic Pictures, Pasi ‘Sleeping’ Myllymäki’s 3000 Cars and Niina Suominen’s Good Stuff screened at the 32nd International Film Festival Etiuda&Anima (Oct 14–19, 2025), Kraków, Poland
The 32nd International Film Festival Etiuda&Anima presents a retrospective of Finnish animation, curated by Joni Männistö, Artistic Director of the Turku Animated Film Festival. The programme includes Eino Ruutsalo‘s Kinetic Pictures (featured image), Pasi ‘Sleeping’ Myllymäki‘s 3000 Cars and Niina… Read more »
Zagros Manuchar’s Whispers and Veli Granö’s Circus Tuomento screened at the Pärnu International Documentary and Science Film Festival (Oct 6–19, 2025), Estonia
Zagros Manuchar‘s Whispers (featured image) and Veli Granö’s Circus Tuomento will be screened at the Pärnu International Documentary and Science Film Festival held from October 6–19, 2025 in Pärnu, Estonia. In Whispers Zagros Manuchar explores the experiences of Kurdish refugees…. Read more »
Pilvi Takala’s The Stroker and Saara Ekström’s Tailor screened in a special programme Tactile Sensations at the 44th Uppsala Short Film Festival (Oct 20–26, 2025)
Pilvi Takala’s The Stroker (featured image) and Saara Ekström‘s Tailor will be screened in the special programme Tactile Sensations at the 44th Uppsala Short Film Festival, held from October 20–26, 2025 in Uppsala, Sweden. Uppsala Short Film Festival is Sweden’s… Read more »