Saara Ekström’s Body All Eyes (2018) and Sami van Ingens Flame (2018) are included in the selection of the Festival Les Instants Vidéo, held in Marseilles, France, from October 24 to December 31. Both Body All Eyes and Flame are… Read more »
Minna Långström’s The Other Side of Mars awarded at Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival
Minna Långström’s documentary film The Other Side of Mars (2019) was awarded at the 23rd Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, held from October 24–29 in Czech Republic. Långström’s film won the main award of its competition selection “A Testimony on… Read more »
Elli Vuorinen’s Still Lives awarded the Golden Gunnar Grand Prix at Fredrikstad Animation Festival
Elli Vuorinen’s Still Lives won the Golden Gunnar Grand Prix at the Fredrikstad Animation Festival, held 24-27.10 in Fredrikstad, Norway. The Jury states: “The winning film is in equal parts funny, sacral and contemplative. Dancing between modernity and history, it… Read more »
AV-arkki presents a showcase on the latest generation of the Finnish Artists’ Moving Image in St. Petersburg
AV-arkki presents a lecture and a showcase on the latest generation of the Finnish artists’ moving image in St. Petersburg on Saturday, November 2. The event is part of the screening programme hosted by the New Holland Island International Debut… Read more »
Meet the Artist: Reija Meriläinen
The latest AVEK Award laureate, Reija Meriläinen (b.1987), works with moving image, sculpture and installation. She is a graduate of the Academy of Fine Arts, and her work often explores social dynamics and power. We discuss her work Survivor, and… Read more »
Laura Horelli’s Namibia Today and Uutisten aika in an exhibition in Katutura, Namibia
Two works by Laura Horelli, Namibia Today (2018) and Uutisten aika (2019) are shown in an exhibition Changes in Direction. The exhibition is open until October 25 in JMAC Gallery, College of the Arts, KCAC, Katutura, Namibia. In Namibia Today, the… Read more »
Films by Minna Långström, Milja Viita, and Saara Ekström & Eero Tammi compete at Ji.hlava IDFF
Minna Långström’s The Other Side of Mars (2019), Milja Viita’s The Enemy Within Me (2019), and Saara Ekström’s & Eero Tammi’s Biblion were selected for competition programmes of the 23rd Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, held from October 24–29 in… Read more »
Jan Ijäs’s Waste no. 2 Wreck screened at Uppsala International Short Film Festival
Jan Ijäs’s Waste no. 2 Wreck (2016) is screened at the 38th Uppsala International Short Film Festival, held from October 21–27 in Sweden. Ijäs’s short documentary film is included in the theme programme “Breaking the Wall“, screened on Wednesday, October… Read more »
Elina Oikari’s Govadas will be screened at the 61st Nordic Film Days in Lübeck
Elina Oikari’s Govadas (2018) will be screened at the 61st Nordic Film Days in Lübeck, held from October 29 to November 3. The screening “White Noise” takes place on Thursday, October 31, at 22:15 in CineStar. Govadas explores the contradiction… Read more »
Marja Helander’s Birds in the Earth will be screened at Konstanzer kurz.film.spiele Festival
Marja Helander’s Birds in the Earth (2018) will be screened at Konstanzer kurz.film.spiele Festival, held from October 23-27. Birds of the Earth will be screened on Sunday 27 at 16:30. Birds in the Earth is a short film based on… Read more »