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 »
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 »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 »
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 »
I am a River
Heidi Piiroinen
New work
Inspired by Pablo Neruda’s Book of Questions—a collection of lyrical, unanswerable poems that playfully interrogate nature, life, and the cosmos—the film weaves poetic inquiry with visual abstraction... Read more »
Elina Saloranta’s A Letter from Elli part of DINAMO’s screening at IFFR 2026
Elina Saloranta‘s film A Letter from Elli (2019) is part of DINAMO’s short film screening programme Exposure/Obscurity at the upcoming International Film Festival Rotterdam. The video is based on a letter written by the Finnish singer Elli Forssell-Rozentāle in August… Read more »
Marja Viitahuhta & Ánnámáret’s Vuoiŋŋat (Spirits) wins Best Nordic Art Film and Elli Vuorinen’s Flower Show Best Nordic Animation at the Minimalen Short Film Festival 2026
Marja Viitahuhta & Ánnámáret‘s Vuoiŋŋat (Spirits) (featured image) won the Best Nordic Art Film award and Elli Vuorinen‘s Flower Show the Best Nordic Animation at the Minimalen Short Film Festival. The festival took place January 13–18, 2026 in Trondheim, Norway…. Read more »
Free as Birds: Imagine
Free as Birds: Imagine reimagines Lennon’s pacifist anthem as a lament for ecological loss and historical violence. Performed atop metal gun emplacements on a former Finnish military island, the artist’s voice resonates with the structure, combining AI-generated bird choirs into a hybrid ritual of human-avian... Read more »
In Memoriam/Islanders
Matleena Jänis
New work
A story of the grief surrounding a mother’s death, memories of loss, and the joy of summer cabin life, drawn from 8 mm home movies filmed by three generations.
Read more »The Grey Hour
Valentina Gelain
New work
The film explores how our emotional relationship with nature reflects our inner states of mind. It reveals how landscapes can mirror our feelings and how we project our fears, hopes, and longings onto the environment. When the familiar begins to feel both safe and suffocating, and... Read more »
(nowadays)
A drone ponders on the meaning of existence.
Read more »The Princess and the Log Splitter
Niina Kiiveri
New work
The work is a documentation of my imagination. I reflect on the legacy left to me and my relationship with it. Daddy’s little princess works the woodpiles continuously. Even though wood is hauled into the woodshed every summer, all summer long, the amount of wood remains the same.
Read more »From Autumn to Winter
Yi-Chin Tsai
New work
Handmade 35mm and 16mm film transform subtle plant impressions into expansive projections. The work opens a contemplative environment in which microscopic gestures unfold into immersive spaces, allowing varied sensorial encounters with time, impermanence, and nature’s quiet resilience.
Read more »Engraved Light Poem
Yi-Chin Tsai
New work
In the Nordic winter, sunlight is fleeting and intensely warm; in its absence, the world sinks into the coldest shades of blue. This work is hand-engraved in the dark with logographic characters onto 16mm film. The film unfolds as a visual poem, where the marks resonate with the movement of light and color.
Read more »Is this now the time I should let you go?
Yi-Chin Tsai
New work
Like scenery seen from a moving train, memories are beautiful, blurred, and constantly shifting. This film explores a daughter’s experience of losing her father. After thirteen years of processing her grief, the filmmaker combines video footage, analog film, and animation techniques to create a diary-like atmosphere.... Read more »
Look at your light, granite
Riikka Haapasaari
New work
An experimental short film following a fictional journey of granite beyond our time, exploring how challenges facing human societies might be viewed differently through nonhuman, inanimate perspectives.
Read more »Lightspeed (2 experiments)
If we want to go into space, we must take plants with us. In the video, a plant grows inside a space capsule–shaped environment. Light rotates around the capsule on a 48-hour cycle. At times, the light passes behind red filters, creating short periods of night for the plant. The plant grows according to a... Read more »
Æther
Ilkka Pitkänen
New work
Æther is an installation composed of four poetic video fragments, exploring states of physical and psychological recovery, inner experience, and affective memory. Rather than linear interpretation, the installation invites lingering as before a living painting: to look, feel, remember.
Read more »Meeting at the Pond
Kaisu Koski
New work
This performative tutorial studies the dynamics of a brown bear, tuning into their bodily rhythms and choreographies. After adopting Bolik the bear in 2024, who was rescued from human abuse to a Romanian brown bear sanctuary Libearty, the artist started following Bolik's life through the sanctuary's live video stream on... Read more »
Janne
Jade Kallio
New work
In the film, the women talk about men – what else would they talk about? – especially one: Janne. Oh, Janne… I love my man, even though I wish I didn’t. There’s another man in the film too, a hot one, swept away by his hunger for the road. The women’s relationship to men is ambiguous,... Read more »
The Double of an Ash Tree
Annette Arlander
New work
The work depicts a performance with the ash tree growing on the rock near the Eckerö post office landing site. It is part of a series of performances for camera with the tree that took place in July 2021.
Read more »With the Apple Tree
Annette Arlander
New work
The work depicts a daily performance with the apple tree growing in front of Eckerö Mail & Customs house in July 2021.
Read more »Day and Night with a Mountain Birch (brief)
Annette Arlander
New work
The work depicts a day and night with a mountain birch. The performance took place every two hours from 6 June 2021 at 3:45 pm to 7 June at 3:45 pm on the shore of Lake Kilpis.
Read more »John 9:25
Joel Karppanen
New work
In 1980, 15-year-old Mika Taanila—soon to be a renowned filmmaker—recorded, under his then moniker Musiikkivyöry, a track titled We’re Becoming Blind. Here, played in reverse, it accompanies abstract 16mm film hand-painted by contemporary teenagers and fragments from Jean-Luc Godard’s Le... Read more »
Azar Saiyar’s My Home part of LABOCINE’s January 2026 issue Archives
Azar Saiyar‘s My Home (2022) is part of LABOCINE‘s January 2026 issue Archives. The issue presents films that reshape memory and revive what already exists—images found, recorded, preserved, or reimagined. “A bee stung me on my finger. It happened yesterday… Read more »
Films by Niina Suominen, Jukka Silokunnas and Sanna Liljander in the programme of the 39th Stuttgarter Filmwinter – Festival for Expanded Media (Jan 14–21, 2026)
Niina Suominen‘s Smoking Spot (featured image), Jukka Silokunnas‘ D/Composition and Sanna Liljander‘s When Will The Day Break will are selected for the 39th Stuttgarter Filmwinter – Festival for Expanded Media, taking place from January 14–21, 2026 in Stuttgart, Germany. Smoking… Read more »
Pilvi Takala’s Feeling Defensive (Part 1), Heidi Piiroinen’s I am a River and Matti Harju’s Nox selected for the 55th International Film Festival Rotterdam, (29 Jan–8 Feb, 2026), Netherlands
Pilvi Takala‘s Feeling Defensive (Part 1) (featured image), Heidi Piiroinen‘s I am a River and Matti Harju‘s Nox will be screened at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), held from January 29–February 8, 2026 in Rotterdam, Netherlands. I am a… Read more »