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 »
Milja Viita’s Delight at Robert St. part of LABOCINE’s October 2025 issue Felino
Milja Viita‘s Delight at Robert St. is part of LABOCINE‘s October issue Felino. This program traces felines’ presence across history, culture, and science fiction—creatures at once sacred, feared, and fantastical. Delight at Robert St. (2023) presents Buddy, an old stray… Read more »
Inari Sandell’s On Butterfly Logic part of the Let’s Start The Revolution International Short Film Contest (October 3–5, 2025), Lublin, Poland
Inari Sandell‘s On Butterfly Logic is part of the Let’s Start The Revolution International Short Film Contest organized by the Camera Femina Foundation. The event takes place from October 3–5, 2025 at Baobab in Lublin, Poland. On Butterfly Logic (2024)… Read more »
Marja Viitahuhta & Ánnámáret, Ilkka Heinonen and Turkka Inkilä’s Vuoiŋŋat (Spirits) and Charlotte Clermont’s du soleil, que ça existe compete at the 29th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival (Oct 24–Nov 2, 2025), Czech Republic
Marja Viitahuhta & Ánnámáret, Ilkka Heinonen and Turkka Inkilä‘s Vuoiŋŋat (Spirits) (featured image) and Charlotte Clermont‘s du soleil, que ça existe have been selected to compete in the Fascinations section at the 29th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, held from… Read more »
Apply for an exhibition time in Mediabox for 2026 – Deadline October 4, 2025
The Open Call for Mediabox exhibition times for 2026 is now running! There are 11-12 exhibition slots available for Mediabox in 2026. The space includes a fixed projector, media player and active loudspeakers. Mediabox is an exhibition space for media… Read more »
Gunzi Holmström’s Turku Goes Oukkidoukki to be screened at the Festival des cinémas différents et expérimentaux de Paris (Oct 10–19, 2025)
Gunzi Holmström‘s Turku Goes Oukkidoukki will be screened at the Festival des cinémas différents et expérimentaux de Paris in the Focus Programme Hacking the past and the present. The festival is held from October 10–19, 2025 in Paris, France. Turku… Read more »
Open Heart Open Mind
Petra Lindholm
New work
What if the Earth could speak through us? This film, born from hypnosis sessions, weaves fragments of image and sound into a resonant space. It is not a story, but an invitation to presence — a place to return to, and perhaps a way to listen differently.
Read more »AV-arkki presents a selection of media art at Swab Barcelona Art Fair (Oct 2–5, 2025)
AV-arkki will present a selection of media artworks as part of the Swab Barcelona Art Fair, taking place from October 2–5, 2025 in Barcelona. Swab Barcelona is an independent platform dedicated to gathering and giving visibility to emerging practices that… Read more »
Saara Ekström’s Geopsyche on view at Uppsala Art Museum, Uppsala, Sweden
Saara Ekström‘s Geopsyche is on view at the Uppsala Art Museum, Uppsala, Sweden from September 13th until October 26th, 2025. Geopsyche (2024) is a three-channel film by Saara Ekström that connects Earth’s ancient geological processes with the inner world of… Read more »
AV-arkki presents a screening of experimental films by artists of Iranian descent at the Love & Anarchy – Helsinki International Film Festival (Sept 18–28, 2025)
AV-arkki’s screening at the Love & Anarchy – Helsinki International Film Festival presents experimental short films by artists and filmmakers of Iranian descent. The works in the screening explore memory and place, inviting reflection on the role of art as… Read more »
Vesa-Pekka Rannikko’s Rat and Border Dog to be screened at the International New Media Art Festival Videomedeja (Oct 9–11, 2025), Novi Sad, Serbia
Vesa-Pekka Rannikko‘s experimental animation Rat and Border Dog will be screened at the International New Media Art Festival Videomedeja, held from October 9–11, 2025 in Novi Sad, Serbia. Rat and Border Dog (2024) is a poetic animation fable about the… Read more »
Erkka Nissinen’s Rigid Regime to be screened at the Murf/Murw festival (Oct 3–5, 2025), Tilburg, Netherlands
Erkka Nissinen‘s Rigid Regime will be screened at the Murf/Murw festival, held from October 3–5, 2025 in Tilburg, Netherlands. The festival focuses on experimental theatre, music, visual arts, and film. In Rigid Regime (2012), an armless outsider observer arrives by… Read more »
Minna Suoniemi’s Practical Ecology part of a Special Programme at Konstmuseet i Kungsparken at Nordisk Panorama Film Festival (18–23 Sept, 2025), Malmö, Sweden
Minna Suoniemi’s film Practical Ecology will be screened at Nordisk Panorama Film Festival as part of a screening programme Malmö in the making. Nordisk Panorama is held from 18–23 September, 2025 in Malmö, Sweden. The films in the programme will… Read more »
A Flagellate Searching for Love
Leena Pukki
New work
A Flagellate Searching for Love captures slime mold moving along symbols of love, diagrams of reproductive cells, and signs of gender. Its themes include the search for love, relationships, sex, and reproduction. The film explores the mechanisms of falling in love, as well as love and sexual attraction. It suggests that... Read more »
A Brilliant Trick
Helka Heinonen
New work
How to do a vanishing act backwards? A poetic film about living on the brink of biodiversity loss, growing up, boundaries, and negotiation. It is about imagining new ways of coexistence and listening to one’s surroundings. The work combines live action with stop-motion animation, dialogue, and voiceover.
Read more »On the Third Day
Maija Tammi
New work
On the Third Day is an installation consisting of a large-scale video projection and an intimate animation. In the video, a mass of flower petals moves in a peculiar way, concealing within itself a secret that threatens to be revealed at any moment. In the animation, a cockroach awakens in a cave. It does not know how it... Read more »
In the Intimacy of Strangers
Maria Ångerman
New work
Does foam breathe? In the tidal zone of a lagoon, new relationships unfold in the in the wake of a catastrophic event.
Read more »Hulda & Lilli
Maija Tammi
New work
Hulda & Lilli is a large-scale installation that combines photographs, text, and video. Hulda & Lilli are a hungry chameleon carrying eggs and a resilient locust who loves flowers. Their two stories explore human nature and our biases. As a viewer, you must first choose which route to take in the exhibition, as the... Read more »
Milja Viita’s Seafearers (SKÖNÄRIT) competes at Archivio Aperto (Sept 26–30, 2025), Bologna, Italy
Milja Viita‘s experimental documentary Seafearers (SKÖNÄRIT) will compete at Archivio Aperto, taking place in Bologna, Italy from September 26–30, 2025. Archivio Aperto is a festival dedicated to the rediscovery of small-format film heritage — private, amateur, experimental, artist’s cinema —… Read more »
Sophia Ehrnrooth’s 879 Heroes by Heart to be presented as a four-channel installation at the 2025–2026 Coventry Biennial, UK
Sophia Ehrnrooth‘s 879 Heroes by Heart will be presented as a major four-channel moving image installation at the 2025 Coventry Biennial, held from October 3rd, 2025 to January 25th, 2026 in Coventry and Warwickshire, United Kingdom. 879 Heroes by Heart… Read more »
Darker Tones
Jade Kallio
New work
The film takes the form of a road movie — a bleak, fear-tinged coming-of-age story during which the protagonists spiral downward as their internal moral compass disintegrates, ultimately leading them to a kind of self-acceptance: a hazy, entangled creation, like tightly compressed playdough.
Read more »Pretend Sleep
Anikó Kuikka
New work
It all starts like any other nightmare — completely ordinary. In the forest, there is a cottage where trauma lives, and during the night, it moves into Helena’s (Nana Saijets) body, making a nest there. When there is no way to run, the only way to escape is to leave your own body. Autofictional Pretend Sleep... Read more »
Eight films of Pilvi Takala now available on the European streaming platform THIS IS SHORT
The program Public Provocations puts together eight short films by Pilvi Takala, curated by Go Short – International Short Film Festival Nijmegen. The program includes the following films: Broad Sense (2011), Drive with Care (2013), Easy Rider (2006), If Your… Read more »
Martta Tuomaala’s Am I Calling You at A Bad Time will premiere at Nordisk Panorama Film Festival 2025, Malmö, Sweden
Martta Tuomaala‘s Am I Calling You at A Bad Time will premiere at Nordisk Panorama Film Festival, held from 18–23 September, 2025 in Malmö Sweden. The film is nominated for the Best Nordic Short Film Award. Nordisk Panorama Film Festival… Read more »
Saara Ekström’s Geopsyche part of the group exhibition Time After Time at The Nordic House, Reykjavik, Iceland
Saara Ekström‘s work titled Geopsyche is presented as a part of Time After Time, an exhibition featuring five Nordic artists exploring themes like nature, energy, time, light, darkness, as well as and human presence and absence. The works, both above… Read more »
Lau Rämö’s Anima and Pink Twins’ Firewalk at Filmfest Weiterstadt (Aug 14–18, 2025), Germany
Lau Rämö‘s Anima (featured image) and Pink Twins‘ Firewalk will be screened at the Open-Air Filmfest Weiterstadt, held from August 14th to 18th, 2025 in Weiterstadt, Germany. The film Anima follows the perspective of a primate researching life through books…. Read more »
Eyes Eyes Baby
Vilma Pimenoff
New work
Eyes Eyes Baby is a psychoanalytic makeup tutorial on how to paint eyes in order to see more. This humorous and thought-provoking video piece contemplates the self (image) as both subject and object.
Read more »Hälytystila
Pasi Autio
New work
The work depicts a sense of being in a constant state of alert. The natural, relaxing sounds resemble the sounds of emergency vehicles, mixing with urban sounds. Due to the rapid alternation of light and darkness, one cannot be certain what is real, and what is a figment of one's imagination.
Read more »Feeling Defensive (Part 1)
Pilvi Takala
New work
Feeling Defensive emerged from Takala’s experience attending the National Defence Course – an invite-only training organised by the Finnish military to rally support for national defence and foster preparedness for crises and war. Based on a conversation with a fellow course participant, political scientist... Read more »