Jaakko Pallasvuo’s Heterosexual Love Story (2018) will be screened at WNDX Festival of Moving Image, held from October 2–6 in Winnipeg, Canada. Heterosexual Love Story is included in the screening “Who Do You Love?“, screened on Friday, October 4 at… Read more »
Azar Saiyar’s Monument of Distance screened at Tallinn Photomonth’s Film Programme
Azar Saiyar’s Monument of Distance (2018) will be screened as a part of Tallinn Photomonth‘s film programme. The video is included in the screening “East from West“. The screening, curated by Ingel Vaikla, takes place on Wednesday, October 2, at… Read more »
Focus of Finnish experimental shorts at Festival of Different and Experimental Cinemas, Paris
Held in Paris from October 2–18, the Festival of Different and Experimental Cinemas presents two screenings of Finnish experimental shorts in collaboration with AV-arkki, FixC, and Institut Finlandais. The screenings have been curated by Kari Yli-Annala. Focus: Relations de pouvoir… Read more »
Pilvi Takala’s The Stroker awarded with Honourable Mention at Nordisk Panorama
Pilvi Takala’s The Stroker was awarded with Honourable Mention at Nordisk Panorama, held from September 19–24 in Malmö. The Jury states: “The film depict the discomfort of superficial intimacy when a strange concept is introduced in the workplace. A simple… Read more »
Marja Helander’s Birds in the Earth screened at Doha Film Institute, Qatar
Marja Helander’s Birds in the Earth (2018) will be screened at Doha Film Institute, Qatar, in a joint screening with Lil’ Buck’s feature-length documentary film Real Swan (2019). The screening will take place on Monday, September 23, at 19:00. Birds… Read more »
Jan Ijäs’s On the Art of the Set Design screened at DMZ Docs, South Korea
Jan Ijäs’s On the Art of the Set Design (2018) will be screened at DMZ Docs, held from September 20–27 in Gyeonggi-do, South Korea. Ijäs’s short documentary is included in the programme DMZ Vision: Inter-Korea with a screening on Wednesday,… Read more »
Nordic Avant-Garde presented in a thorough showcase at IFF Message to Man, St. Petersburg
A thorough showcase “Nordic Avant-Garde – Moving Images from the North”, including several treasures from AV-arkki’s archive, will be screened at International Film Festival Message to Man. The programme is curated by Swedish curator Martin Grennberger. IFF Message to Man… Read more »
Azar Saiyar’s Monument of Distance awarded at Festival Silhouette, Paris
Azar Saiyar’s Monument of Distance (2018) was awarded with the Prix du Jury Hybride at Festival Silhouette, held in Paris from August 30 to September 7. In Monument of Distance, Googoosh, a popular and loved iranian-azerbaijani singer, performs a version of… Read more »
Jan Ijäs’s, Pilvi Takala’s, & Elli Vuorinen’s short films at Cairo Video Festival
Jan Ijäs’s On the Art of the Set Design (2018), Pilvi Takala’s The Stroker (2019), and Elli Vuorinen’s Still Lives (2019) will be screened at Cairo Video Festival, held from September 9–30. Jan Ijäs’s On the Art of the Set… Read more »
New documentary and live works in our online archive
Discover these recent acquisitions in our online archive! For professional preview, please register to see the full-length versions. Laura Horelli: Newstime (2019, 00:39:11) “Newstime” is a found footage film which discusses cultural differences, being an outsider, the Namibian independence struggle,… Read more »