Laura Horelli’s Namibia Today (2018) will be screened in the Panorama Selection of CineMigrante, held in Buenos Aires from September 18–26. The CineMigrante Film Festival proposes describing the current problems that intercultural movements entail, tackling the migration issue in a way… Read more »
Minna Suoniemi’s Practical Ecology shortlisted for LOOP Discover Award & screened at Nordisk Panorama
Minna Suoniemi’s Practical Ecology (2017) is shortlisted for LOOP Discover Award 2018. The LOOP Discover Award has been created with the aim to support and recognize the recent production of videos and films by international artists through a free open… Read more »
Meet the Artist: Saara Ekström
Winner of the AVEK Award 2018, visual artist Saara Ekström, has moved towards more and more cinematic art during her career. Her latest works are inspired by deteriorating buildings with heavy culture-historical heritage – but also moving in time and… Read more »
Minna Rainio’s & Mark Roberts’s They Came in Crowded Boats and Trains screened at Camden IFF
Minna Rainio’s and Mark Roberts’s They Came in Crowded Boats and Trains (2018) will be screened in the short film selection of Camden International Film Festival, held from September 13–16 in Camden, Rockport and Rockland, Maine. The festival highlights craft… Read more »
Sami van Ingen’s Flame & Laura Horelli’s Namibia Today selected for BFI London FF
Sami van Ingen’s Flame (2018) and Laura Horelli’s Namibia Today (2018) have been selected for the Experimenta selection of the BFI London Film Festival. The 62nd BFI London Film Festival is held from October 10–21. Experimenta is the festival’s branch… Read more »
Meet the Artist: Mox Mäkelä
“We live in the era of indolence, and people want to transfer that spiritual laziness over to art. In this case, I’m on a completely different planet.” Challenging traditional forms of art has defined Mox Mäkelä’s (b. 1958) work throughout her… Read more »
Jan Ijäs’s and Anssi Kasitonni’s short films at Open-Air Filmfest Weiterstadt
Jan Ijäs’s Waste no. 1 Money (2017) and Anssi Kasitonni’s Saladdin Castique (2018) are screened at Open-Air Filmfest Weiterstadt, held from August 16–20. Awarded with the first prize at Ciné de Huesca, Waste no. 1 Money documents the situation where the inflation… Read more »
Jonna Kina’s Arr. for a Scene & Azar Saiyar’s Monument of Distance compete at IFF Message to Man
Jonna Kina’s Arr. for a Scene (2017) and Azar Saiyar’s Monument of Distance (2018) were selected for In Silico Experimental Short Film Competition of the 28th International Film Festival Message to Man, held in St. Petersburg from September 15–22. Awarded… Read more »
Ewa Gorzna’s Collapse and Saara Ekström’s Amplifier compete at Videomedeja, Serbia
Ewa Górzna’s Collapse (2017) and Saara Ekström’s Amplifier (2017) were selected in the screening competition of the International Video Festival Videomedeja, held in Novi Sad, Serbia, from 31.8.–2.9. Collapse depicts a situation where a seemingly complete and established order is… Read more »
Jonna Kina’s Arr. for a Scene competes at Odense IFF, Denmark
Jonna Kina’s Arr. for a Scene (2017) was selected for three different competition series at Odense International Film Festival. Held from 27.8.–2.9.2018, Odense IFF is Denmark’s oldest film festival and an Oscar-qualifying short film festival. Arr. for a Scene is… Read more »