Mika Taanila’s experimental short film Patent No. 314805 (2020) will be streamed at Flatpack Festival, held online from May 21–31. The film is included in the Optical Sound short film programme, available from May 27. In June, Taanila’s film will… Read more »
Maija Blåfield’s The Fantastic screened in Winterthur and Ascona as ISFF Winterthur reaches local cinemas
International Short Film Festival Winterthur, held online in November 2020, is taking its programme to local cinemas in front of the live audience in May and June. Among other shorts in the official competition programmes, Maija Blåfield’s The Fantastic is… Read more »
Short films by Niina Suominen, Milja Viita, and Mika Taanila in the competition at Regensburg International Short Film Week
Niina Suominen’s What Time Is? (2020), Milja Viita’s When We Are Nothing Left (2019), and Mika Taanila’s Patent No. 314805 (2020) were selected for the international competition of Regensburg International Short Film Week, held online from May 21 – June… Read more »
Helena Öst’s A Home in Memory screened at Taiwan International Documentary Festival
Helena Öst’s A Home in Memory will be screened at Taiwan International Documentary Festival, held in Taipei City from April 30 – May 9. Öst’s short documentary film is included in the thematic programme Documemory: Space and Place, curated by… Read more »
Meet the Artist – Dave Berg
Dave Berg (b.1981) graduated from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts in 2013, after which he has made live-action films as well as shorter computer animations. Dark themes, intensity and poetic narration are typical for his art. Berg tells us… Read more »
International Short Film Festival Oberhausen presents Salla Tykkä’s retrospective Profile programme
The 67. International Short Film Festival Oberhausen will be held from May 1–10 online. This year, Finnish media art has a strong presence in different programme sections. Marja Helander’s Shelter (2020) was selected for the new international online competition. The… Read more »
Atomic by Honkasalo-Niemi-Virtanen in the competition at the new THIS IS SHORT online film festival
Atomic (2020) by Honkasalo-Niemi-Virtanen Collective was selected for the New Point of View competition of THIS IS SHORT online film festival. The film will be streamed from April 25–28. Atomic is a poetic journey, which tells the story of one… Read more »
Niina Suominen’s and Elian Mikkola’s short films screened at the new Péripheries Experimental Film & Video Festival
Niina Suominen’s What Time Is? (2020, in featured image) and Elian Mikkola’s Aries (2020) will be screened at the new Péripheries Experimental Film & Video Festival. The Boston-based festival will be held online from April 10–15 2021. The essence of… Read more »
Marja Helander’s Dolastallat at An Ordinary Day Film Festival, Stockholm
Marja Helander’s Dolastallat – To Have a Campfire (2016) will be screened at An Ordinary Day Film Festival, held in Studio 44, Stockholm from April 13–18. Helander’s short film will be screened on Thursday, April 15, and on Sunday, April… Read more »
Risto-Pekka Blom’s short films screened at Go Short and GoEast
Risto-Pekka Blom’s short film Canary (2020, in featured image) was selected for the European competition of Go Short International Short Film Festival Nijmegen, held online from April 8–25. Later in April, Blom’s earlier short film, Kudryavka – Little Ball of… Read more »