Porto/Post/Doc Film & Media Festival presents a Focus Programme of films by Jan Ijäs. This programme at Porto/Post/Doc is part of the international Cinéstesia programme exchange, an initiative by Espoo Ciné. The festival takes place from November 19–28, 2026 in… Read more »
Seppo Renvall’s Ad Infinitum and Heidi Piiroinen’s I am a River selected for the 30th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival (Oct 23–Nov 1, 2026), Czech Republic
Seppo Renvall‘s Ad Infinitum (featured image) and Heidi Piiroinen’s I am a River have been selected for the 30th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival (Ji.hlava IDFF), taking place from October 23 to November 1, 2026 in Jihlava, Czech Republic. In… Read more »
Risto-Pekka Blom’s Too Blue a Sky selected for the Bogotá International Documentary Film Festival (October 28–November 4, 2026), Colombia
Risto-Pekka Blom‘s Too Blue a Sky has been selected for the 28th edition of Bogotá International Documentary Film Festival (MIDBO), held from October 28–November 4, 2026 in Bogotá, Colombia. Too Blue a Sky (2026) is a story about money, power,… Read more »
Pasi “Sleeping” Myllymäki’s retrospective screening at the 24th Doclisboa (October 15–25, 2026), Lisbon, Portugal
The 24th edition of Doclisboa will present the largest retrospective so far of Pasi “Sleeping” Myllymäki’s films, which he created together with his long-time collaborator, cinematographer Risto Laakkonen, who passed away this year. The screening A Punk Wonder of Super… Read more »
Marja Viitahuhta & Ánnámáret’s Vuoiŋŋat (Spirits) wins Best Audiovisual Experimental Short at 2026 Minikino Film Week – Bali International Short Film Festival
Marja Viitahuhta & Ánnámáret’s Vuoiŋŋat (Spirits) was awarded the Best Audiovisual Experimental Short at the Minikino Film Week – Bali International Short Film Festival, which took place in September 2026. The jury noted: “Through its striking experimentation with animated archival… Read more »
Jan Ijäs’ PICNIC – In Light Invisible to the Human Eye competes at IDFA 2026 (November 12–22, 2026), Amsterdam, Netherlands
Jan Ijäs‘ film PICNIC – In Light Invisible to Human Eye has been selected for the 39th edition of the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), where it will compete in the IDFA Competition for Short Documentary. The festival takes… Read more »
Niina Suominen’s Mindfullmess and Heidi Piiroinen’s I am a River selected for ANALOGICA 16 (November 11–15, 2026), Bolzano, Italy
Niina Suominen’s Mindfullmess (featured image) and Heidi Piiroinen‘s I am a River have been selected for ANALOGICA 16, held from November 11–15, 2026 in Bolzano, Italy. Both films are featured in the screening Analogica Selection 16 Pr 5 on November… Read more »
Sandra Lola Dada’s Elisabeth selected for PERLEN – Queer Film Festival Hannover (22–31 October 2026), Germany
Sandra Lola Dada’s Elisabeth (2025) has been selected for the 29th Autumn Festival of PERLEN – Queer Film Festival Hannover, taking place from 22–31 October 2026. The film will be screened as part of PERLEN’s lesbian short film programme PEARLS… Read more »
AV-arkki artists’ films at the 45th Uppsala Short Film Festival (October 19–25, 2026), Sweden
Several of AV-arkki artists’ films have been selected for the 45th Uppsala Short Film Festival, taking place from October 19–25, 2026 in Uppsala, Sweden. Heidi Piiroinen‘s I am a River (featured image), Marja Helander & Liselotte Wajstedt‘s In my Hand… Read more »
Seeing is believing
Marcus Lerviks
New work
Seeing is Believing explores the blurred boundary between scientific truth and alternative beliefs in contemporary society. Using examples such as the Flat Earth theory, it reflects a world where logic is often overshadowed, and people are driven by a need to belong and the freedom to explore diverse beliefs, even... Read more »
An Underground Bird
Eero Tammi
New work
In a hidden film cellar, filmmaker Juha-Veli Äkräs (1948–2021) moves through the fading remnants of another era in his everyday work as a solitary cleaner. A wordless portrait of a transient world.
Read more »Being alive is just this leaking in and out
Niina Lehtonen Braun
New work
Being alive is just this leaking in and out is an ink-painted animation and part of the My body is my studio series, which explores the female body, its changes, memories, and stories. The work reflects on the body, life, and transformation, as well as the connections between generations. It is a work... Read more »
Tree Moon Bone
Minna Suoniemi
New work
In Puu kuu luu (Tree Moon Bone) a female figure tentatively strokes the roots of a large fallen tree. The tree roots form a shape resembling a placenta and blood veins that echo in the contours of the human figure’s hands. Similarities between these bodies of water – human and tree – are... Read more »
Sepideh Rahaa’s work In Transition part of XAOS Festival (September 25–October 5, 2026), Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Sepideh Rahaa’s film In Transition has been selected to be shown as part of the 3rd edition of XAOS Festival, taking place from September 25 to October 5, 2026, in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. The festival is organized by MCASA, Mongolian Contemporary Art Support… Read more »
Inari Sandell’s Total Control selected for the 28th Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris (October 9–18, 2026)
Inari Sandell‘s film Total Control has been selected for the 28th edition of Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris. The festival will take place in Paris from October 9 to 18, 2026. The festival is organized by the Collectif… Read more »
Niina Suominen’s Mindfullmess selected for Fredrikstad Animation Festival (October 21–25, 2026), Fredrikstad, Norway
Niina Suominen‘s Mindfullmess has been selected for the the Nordic-Baltic short film competition of the Fredrikstad Animation Festival (FAF), taking place from October 21–25, 2026, Fredrikstad, Norway. Fredrikstad Animation Festival is the leading festival for animated film in the Nordic… Read more »
Marja Viitahuhta & Ánnámáret’s Vuoiŋŋat (Spirits) competes at Viborg Animation Festival (September 7–13, 2026), Denmark
Marja Viitahuhta & Ánnámáret’s Vuoiŋŋat (Spirits) will compete at the Viborg Animation Festival, taking place from September 7–13, 2026 in Viborg, Denmark. The film is part of the screening Competition programme 5. Vuoiŋŋat (Spirits) is a cameraless animation by visual… Read more »
Imago
Minou Norouzi
New work
Imago maps a series of frozen moments in the Los Angeles acting community. Each actor is seen in their day job delivering their favourite line from a movie. Conceived as a hypothesis that a person’s favourite line from a movie contains within it the essence of an ideal, a passion, conviction or sense of self,... Read more »
Jenni-Juulia Wallinheimo-Heimonen’s How Great Is Your Darkness? on view at the Design Museum of Chicago until 18 January 2027
Jenni-Juulia Wallinheimo-Heimonen‘s comedy How Great is Your Darkness?, originally created for the 2024 Venice Biennale, is on view at the Design Museum of Chicago until 18 January 2027 as part of the exhibition Voices Embodied: Prognostication. The exhibition is part… Read more »
Rewound Trading Legacies
Eddie Choo Wen Yi
New work
Rewound Trading Legacies is an essay film developed from artistic research on a broken Bauer Super 8 camera manufactured in Malaysia by Bosch for the German market. A multilingual narrative explores inherited memories, displacement, and positioning within industrial and transnational histories.
Read more »7 years
Eddie Choo Wen Yi
New work
Shot on Super 8 film, this essay film considers time, companionship, and the uneven rhythms shared between a human and an aging dog. Guided by the ratio of one human year to seven dog years, it dwells on care, waiting, and absence through quiet domestic moments and grainy analogue texture, where flicker and grain echo the... Read more »
Yaris, Crow
Matti Harju
New work
A slow loss of grip on reality: the search for «objectivity» at the fringes of a society consumed by technology.
Read more »Short films by Risto-Pekka Blom, Heidi Piiroinen, Carmen Baltzar and Marjo Viitala, and Sami Sänpäkkilä’s feature documentary about Anssi Kasitonni selected for Nordisk Panorama (17–22 September 2026), Malmö, Sweden
Risto-Pekka Blom’s Too Blue a Sky (Best Nordic Short Film competition, featured image), Heidi Piiroinen‘s I am a River (New Nordic Voice competition), Carmen Baltzar‘s All the Love in My Body (Young Nordic competition), Marjo Viitala’s I Remember You (Young… Read more »
All messed up
In the light of a digital environment, settings can be altered in ways that have no equivalent in the real world and do not correspond to phenomena or adjustable parameters found in reality. The work is created within an artificial computer environment, where the settings are deliberately “all messed up” causing... Read more »
Linear light
Ilkka Paloniemi
New work
The work’s low bass and polyrhythmic tapping, combined with computer-generated animated light, create a focused atmosphere. Linear light behind a transparent sphere, combined with digital noise, defines the visual character of the work. In a computer environment, light does not behave as it does in reality. It is... Read more »
Deep fake
Ilkka Paloniemi
New work
The work is simulaiting an anomaly within gravitational field. The sound originates from shortwave radio broadcasts and represents the sonic worldview present in the ether. The work is a light artwork without actual light.
Read more »Charlotte Clermont’s du soleil, que ça existe selected for CROSSROADS (September 4–6, 2026), San Francisco, U.S.
Charlotte Clermont’s du soleil, que ça existe has been selected for the 17th iteration of CROSSROADS, held from September 4–6, 2026 at Gray Area in San Francisco, United States. CROSSROADS is San Francisco Cinematheque’s annual film festival, dedicated to the… Read more »
Phases of Ice
Hanna Saarikoski
New work
A performance for the camera. I walk on the sandy beach in sandals made of ice, back and forth to the water's edge, until the sandals melt.
Read more »Marja Viitahuhta & Ánnámáret’s Vuoiŋŋat (Spirits) and Leena Lehti’s Existence II screened at the 50th Filmfest Weiterstadt (Aug 13–17, 2026), Germany
Marja Viitahuhta & Ánnámáret’s Vuoiŋŋat (Spirits) (featured image) and Leena Lehti’s Existence II will be screened at the 50th Filmfest Weiterstadt, held from August 13th to 17th, 2025 in Weiterstadt, Germany. Vuoiŋŋat (Spirits) is a cameraless animation by visual artist… Read more »
On the tenderness of men
Minou Norouzi
New work
On the Tenderness of Men is an essay film tracing the history of Helsinki’s 1968 Rock Church and its architects’ exclusion from Finnish modernism. Ventriloquizing narrators, the film blurs time, place, and identities to consider the impact of war and displacement.
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