Sara Pathirane (born in 1985) works with video, installation and painting. She is agraduate of the Academy of Fine Arts, and her works often engage with the tradition of landscape painting. We discussed future projects, fictions of places, and the… Read more »
Patrik Söderlund’s Realms continues its festival life with screenings at several venues and a fresh award from Arctic FF
Premiered at IFF Rotterdam in January 2019, Patrik Söderlund’s short film Realms (2018) continues its successful film festival life. Recently, it was awarded for the best cinematography (by Jussi Eerola) at Arctic Film Festival, held in the worlds northernmost film… Read more »
Pilvi Takala’s The Stroker awarded with Honourable Mention at Nordisk Panorama
Pilvi Takala’s The Stroker was awarded with Honourable Mention at Nordisk Panorama, held from September 19–24 in Malmö. The Jury states: “The film depict the discomfort of superficial intimacy when a strange concept is introduced in the workplace. A simple… Read more »
Marja Helander’s Birds in the Earth screened at Doha Film Institute, Qatar
Marja Helander’s Birds in the Earth (2018) will be screened at Doha Film Institute, Qatar, in a joint screening with Lil’ Buck’s feature-length documentary film Real Swan (2019). The screening will take place on Monday, September 23, at 19:00. Birds… Read more »
Jan Ijäs’s On the Art of the Set Design screened at DMZ Docs, South Korea
Jan Ijäs’s On the Art of the Set Design (2018) will be screened at DMZ Docs, held from September 20–27 in Gyeonggi-do, South Korea. Ijäs’s short documentary is included in the programme DMZ Vision: Inter-Korea with a screening on Wednesday,… Read more »
Nordic Avant-Garde presented in a thorough showcase at IFF Message to Man, St. Petersburg
A thorough showcase “Nordic Avant-Garde – Moving Images from the North”, including several treasures from AV-arkki’s archive, will be screened at International Film Festival Message to Man. The programme is curated by Swedish curator Martin Grennberger. IFF Message to Man… Read more »
Azar Saiyar’s Monument of Distance awarded at Festival Silhouette, Paris
Azar Saiyar’s Monument of Distance (2018) was awarded with the Prix du Jury Hybride at Festival Silhouette, held in Paris from August 30 to September 7. In Monument of Distance, Googoosh, a popular and loved iranian-azerbaijani singer, performs a version of… Read more »
Jan Ijäs’s, Pilvi Takala’s, & Elli Vuorinen’s short films at Cairo Video Festival
Jan Ijäs’s On the Art of the Set Design (2018), Pilvi Takala’s The Stroker (2019), and Elli Vuorinen’s Still Lives (2019) will be screened at Cairo Video Festival, held from September 9–30. Jan Ijäs’s On the Art of the Set… Read more »
Elli Vuorinen’s Still Lives screened at Fantoche International Animation FF and RGB Balkan Arts Festival
Elli Vuorinen’s Still Lives continues its festival life. It was selected for the international competition of Fantoche International Animation Film Festival in the competition programme 1. Fantoche IAFF is held from September 3–8 in Baden, Switzerland. It is also included… Read more »
Maarit Suomi-Väänänen’s and Jan Ijäs’s short documentaries selected to IDFA
Maarit Suomi-Väänänen’s Miniscpectacles Albuquerque Straight (2016) and Jan Ijäs’s Time Capsule (2016) are selected to International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam through AV-arkki’s distribution. Held from November 16–27, IDFA is the world’s largest documentary film festival. The films are screened at Paradocs,… Read more »