Martta Tuomaala‘s Am I Calling You at a Bad Time? has been selected for the 21st International Labor Film Festival taking place from May 2-10, 2026 in Istanbul, Ankara, and Izmir, Turkey. X is growing up in the 1990s. As… Read more »
Pilvi Takala’s Real Snow White screened at Numbers gallery on May 9, 2026 in Sydney, Australia
Pilvi Takala‘s Real Snow White will be screened as part of the Videos programme, a 12 night programme of artist’s films across 4 weekends, by the independent gallery Numbers in Sydney, Australia. The screening series take place from April 17… Read more »
Erkka Nissinen’s Monday and Martta Tuomaala’s Am I Calling You at a Bad Time? compete at Flatpack Festival (May 8–16, 2026), UK
Erkka Nissinen‘s Monday (2026) (featured image) and Martta Tuomaala‘s Am I Calling You at a Bad Time? (2025) have been selected for the 20th Flatpack Festival. Both films are screened in the Short Film Competition: Growing Up. The festival takes… Read more »
Snot manifesto
Sandra Lola Dada
New work
Pilvi Takala’s Real Snow White screened as part of a special programme at the 23rd IndieLisboa (April 30-May 10, 2026), Portugal
Pilvi Takala‘s work Real Snow White will be screened as part of the programme “This Is Not a Documentary” Retrospective at the 23rd edition of IndieLisboa. The programme is dedicated to the mockumentary—a genre that blurs the lines between fiction… Read more »
Sanna Liljander’s When Will the Day Break wins the Blickfang Prize for the Best International Experimental Film at Filmfest Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel, Germany
Sanna Liljander‘s film When Will the Day Break (2024) won the Blickfang Prize awarded for the Best International Experimental Film at the Filmfest Schleswig-Holstein. The festival took place from 17-21 March, 2026 in Kiel, Germany. The jury described the film… Read more »
The House
Elena Näsänen KENNO FILMI OSK
New work
A poetic film about memories, letting go, destruction, and hope. A home, an abandoned house with its belongings, and an old forest serve as the backdrop for a woman's poetic monologue, where personal and universal memories intertwine with the echoes of war and environmental destruction.
Read more »Significant project funding for the development of networks in Finnish media art
Image: M-Cult, Tani Simberg 2025 The Finnish Arts and Culture Agency awarded €70,000 in funding to the Finnish Media Art Networks collaboration project. The project will be carried out by AV-arkki, M-Cult, and the Finnish Light Art Society FLASH in… Read more »
Expeditions (to places that don't exist)
Lilli Haapala
New work
Expeditions (to Places That Don’t Exist) is a video work that engages with seeing, reality, and utopias. It asks what is true and what may be constructed by our perception. At the same time, the work raises the question of what we can truly know about the world.
Read more »Too Blue a Sky
Risto-Pekka Blom
New work
A story about money, power, exploitation and many possible ends to the world. Some people yearn for Mars, others for Heaven. Some dance the humppa on the Moon. In this short, tragicomic play, each of us has our own little part.
Read more »AV-arkki’s artists’ films at the Nofilter Kino Film Festival (March 28–April 25, 2026)
Several of AV-arkki’s artists’ films will be featured in the programme of the 12th edition of Nofilter Kino Film Festival, taking place from March 28–April 24, 2026 across various cities in Europe, including Helsinki. The programme Solo Soul Sauna presents… Read more »
Maija Blåfield’s The Fantastic part of a special programme at the 18th Go Short Nijmegen festival (April 7–12, 2026), Netherlands
Maija Blåfield‘s film The Fantastic will be screened as part of a short film programme Age of Disinformation at the 18th Go Short Nijmegen. This film programme takes a closer look at the ongoing stream of disinformation, from state-controlled media… Read more »
Bluegreen bodies (and other stories)
Lilli Haapala
New work
Bluegreen Bodies (and Other Stories) is a poetic video work in which water, time, and different bodies gradually merge. Within its flow drift temporal layers and forms of being: the primordial sea, mitochondria, Mother Nature, and the bodies of water. The work reflects on the shifting relationship between the natural and... Read more »
Jari and Me
Riikka Gröndahl
New work
Jari and Me is a documentary-based video work about two friends. The work shows the life of two students in their 20s in a smoky studio flat in Tampere, Finland. The work consists of conversations about body image, identity and death. Jari and Me is about the hardships of growing up, self-acceptance, and the power of... Read more »
Absent Referent
Riikka Gröndahl
New work
The video work Absent Referent explores the ways humans and nonhuman animals interact in a specific scientific setting, and how images of violence and care are being looked at and talked about by a variety of people. Some people turn their heads away and some watch without a blink.
Read more »Karuizawa (Happy Birthday John)
Paula Saraste
New work
Karuizawa (Happy Birthday John) is a short film about an attempt to meet John Lennon in Japan. The soundtrack features a partly AI-generated phone conversation between one of the filmmakers and John Lennon. They discuss their secret love affair and arrange a meeting in Karuizawa.
Read more »Noora Geagea’s Life Goals to be screened as part of the Le Printemps du Film Engagé festival on March 23, 2026 in Marseille, France
Noora Geagea’s Life Goals will be screened as part of the Le Printemps du Film Engagé festival. The festival takes place in movie theaters and community venues, offering screenings followed by discussions with the audience in order to broaden perspectives on… Read more »
Salla Tykkä’s Lasso part of a short film programme of ASAP festival on March 23, 2026 at Pilar Box, Brussels
Salla Tykkä‘s film Lasso (2000) will be screened in a short film programme titled The Fall Was Hard, but I Love the Taste of Pavement on My Tongue curated by Max Ferguson. The screening is part of the multidisciplinary arts… Read more »
Milja Viita’s Seafarers selected for ArtDocFest/Riga (February 28–March 8, 2026)
Milja Viita‘s experimental documentary Seafarers has been selected for The International Documentary Film Festival ArtDocFest/Riga (IDFF ArtDocFest/Riga), taking place from February 28th to March 9th, 2026 in Riga, Latvia. The film is featured in the Baltic Focus programme, which presents… Read more »
Monday
Erkka Nissinen
New work
It's Monday. A man wakes up. A journalist wants to hear the truth.
Read more »Red
Anni Kinnunen
New work
Red painted lips move on the glass, drawing a pattern.
Read more »Mindfullmess
Niina Suominen
New work
A celebration of neurodiversity. Scattered stimuli dissolve thought into noise—yet within the chaos, a new order emerges as perception shifts into a bodily experience of rhythm and movement, image and sound. What first appears senseless leaves behind traces that may, after all, hold meaning.
Read more »REDDENING
Zodiak – Center for New Dance Sinem Kayacan
New work
REDDENING is a genre-bending fantasy film at the intersection of contemporary performance and experimental fiction. The title refers to the final stage of alchemy, Rubedo, in which the alchemical transformation takes place.... Read more »
Everything is right before
Zodiak – Center for New Dance Antsalo Anna
New work
The film captures a moment on the verge of beginning. An actor prepares for a shoot while the crew waits. Instead of moving forward, the actor is overwhelmed by an endless array of choices. The film unveils a bodily state where preparation transforms into an endless stretch of time. With a tragicomic touch, the film takes... Read more »
The Sky is Red and White
Johanna Lecklin
New work
The film addresses the mystery of the filmmaker's female relative, who was killed in the Finnish Civil War in 1918 in Vyborg. Was the distant relative the leader of the female Red Guard? Can you trust archives when trying to find information about a relative who has passed a long time ago? The film explores... Read more »
Open Secret & Red Rose Cinema Helsinki: AV-arkki’s Valentine’s Day at the former Harju Morgue, February 14th, 2026
For Valentine’s Day (or Friendship Day, as it’s called in Finland) AV-arkki invites you to experience an evening of moving images at the former Harju Morgue in Dallapé Park. AV-arkki is excited to host the first Helsinki edition of Open… Read more »
Psilocybin Babies
Sandra Lola Dada
New work
What is psilocybin mushrooms were give to newborns to disrupt transgenerational heteronormativity?
Read more »Elisabeth
Sandra Lola Dada
New work
I met a girl in the toilet of a bar... She said I looked nice and we went together to the smoking area where neither of us smoked, we just stroked each other's hair... The night went on and we danced, giggled and held hands until it abruptly ended with her saying that she has a boyfriend and has to leave.
Read more »Puuilofritsu
Sandra Lola Dada
New work
A Puuilo hickey is a scrape or a wound that forms on the shoulder as a result of too many purchases from Puuilo hardware store. In Puuilo Hickey two characters, Domina and Witch, spend time in Puuilo. They pull meter chain, touch screws priced by the kilo and fly with a broom, among other things.
Read more »Anna Antsalo & Jenni-Elina von Bagh’s film Everything Is Right Before wins Best Film in the Multiplié Dance Film Nordic Competition at Minimalen Short Film Festival 2026
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 »