Risto-Pekka Blom’s Too Blue a Sky (Best Nordic Short Film competition, featured image), Heidi Piiroinen‘s I am a River (New Nordic Voice competition), Carmen Baltzar‘s All the Love in My Body (Young Nordic competition), Marjo Viitala’s I Remember You (Young Nordic competition) and Sami Sänpäkkilä‘s 8000: An Art Odyssey (Best Nordic Documentary) have been selected for Nordisk Panorama, taking place from 17–22 September 2026 in Malmö, Sweden.

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.

Inspired by Pablo Neruda’s Book of Questions—a collection of lyrical, unanswerable poems that playfully interrogate nature, life, and the cosmos—the film I am a River (2026) weaves poetic inquiry with visual abstraction through the rarely used mordançage technique. Its veil-like formations evoke the fluid, fragile, ever-changing essence of rivers, suggesting they are living entities, much like us.

The film is produced by PALO.

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.

The film is produced by Kenno Filmi.

In Marjo Viitala’s I Remember You, a group of young friends arrives at a secluded beach for a weekend of camping. As night falls, strange events unsettle them. When a local man vanishes, they become suspects, questioned by authorities who believe they know more than they admit. But is the true darkness lurking in the shadows… or within?

Sami Sänpäkkilä‘s 8000: An Art Odyssey shows how Anssi does everything his own way, and preferably with his own hands. We follow the Finnish Ars Fennica awarded artist Anssi 8000 while he prepares for the biggest exhibition of his life at Kunsthalle Helsinki, films a French language short film with dreams of winning an Oscar and develops a skate toy with a company based in Hong Kong. It is a warm and humorous story about passion, creativity – and how sometimes, doing things the wrong way is the right way.

Nordisk Panorama
17–22 September 2026
Malmö, Sweden

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