Niina Suominen‘s Mindfullmess (featured image), Risto-Pekka Blom‘s Too Blue a Sky, Carmen Baltzar‘s All the Love in My Body and Marja Viitahuhta &Ánnámáret’s Vuoiŋŋat (Spirits) have been selected for Minikino Film Week – Bali International Short Film Festival, taking place from September 11–18, 2026 in Bali, Indonesia.

Mindfullmess (2026) is 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.

Too Blue a Sky (2026) is 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.

All the Love in My Body (2026) enters a touristic beach in Greece from the point of view of Nadia and Samara, two young Romani sisters selling toys. The girls navigate the beach with wit, boredom, joy and frustration, interacting with a varied cast of sunbathers. Samara is focused on sales, while Nadia gets caught up in people gazing and daydreams. Their day takes a jarring turn before the sun goes down.

Vuoiŋŋat (2025) is a cameraless animation by visual artist and filmmaker Marja Viitahuhta, bringing to life the 1839 drawings of northern lights by French illustrator Louis Bévalet, drawn in the Alta region in Sápmi. This digital space is filled by the sound of the indigenous Sámi musician Ánnámáret yoiking the homeless spirits – Vuoiŋŋat – and her luohti is accompanied by Ilkka Heinonen’s jouhikko aka carelian bowed lyre and electronic music by Turkka Inkilä.

The work is dedicated to the memory of the Sámi ancestors who were exhumed from their graves in burial grounds in Sápmi approximately 100–150 years ago in the name of research carried out for racist reasons. Some of the remains have only recently been reburied in Sápmi.

Minikino Film Week 11 – Bali International Short Film Festival
September 11–18, 2026
Bali, Indonesia

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