Risto-Pekka Blom’s Interceptor (2018) and Antti Tanttu’s Qualia (2017) will be screened at “the most Finnish film festival in Sweden”, YksiKaksiFilmi, held in Stockhom from September 14–16. The short film screening is scheduled for Saturday, September 15, at 17:00. Risto-Pekka… Read more »
Anssi Kasitonni’s and Anneli Nygren’s short films at Belo Horizonte International Short Film Festival
Anssi Kasitonni’s Saladdin Castique (2018) and Anneli Nygren’s PaperBabes – Age of Reason (2017) are screened at Belo Horizonte International Short Film Festival, held from August 10–19 in Brazil. In Saladdin Castique, a man walks in the forest and tries to find… Read more »
Jan Ijäs’s short documentaries screened in Montenegro, Poland, South Korea, Ukraine, and Uruguay
Jan Ijäs’s short documentaries from the Waste series travel the world. Waste no. 1 Money (2017) was screened at Montenegro Film Festival, held from August 1–8 in Herceg Novi. It will also be screened at Piriapolis Film Festival, held in… Read more »
Mox Mäkelä’s, Jan Ijäs’s, and Anu Pennanen’s short films at Seoul International NewMedia Festival
Mox Mäkelä’s Host Sapiens (2018) and Jan Ijäs’s Waste no. 1 Money (2017) were selected in the international competition “Glocal Propose” of the 18th Seoul International NewMedia Festival (NEMAF), held from August 15–24. Anu Pennanen’s Monument for the Invisible (2003)… Read more »
Sami van Ingen’s Flame screened at Sarajevo Film Festival
Sami van Ingen’s Flame (2018) will be screened at Sarajevo Film Festival, held from August 10–17. Flame is included in the programme European Shorts 3, screened on Tuesday, August 14, at 20:30 in Art Cinema Kriterion. Flame is a fractured melodrama,… Read more »
Jonna Kina’s Arr. for a Scene & Sami van Ingen’s Flame compete at EXiS Film & Video Festival, Seoul
Jonna Kina’s Arr. for a Scene (2017) and Sami van Ingen’s Flame (2018) were selected in the international competition of EXiS – Experimental Film & Video Festival, held in Seoul from July 12–19. All screenings take place in the Korean Film… Read more »
Short films by Lauri Astala, Marja Helander, Mika Taanila, and Salla Tykkä at Point Éphémère, Paris
Short films by Lauri Astala, Marja Helander, Mika Taanila, and Salla Tykkä are included in a rooftop screening of Finnish short films in Point Éphémère, Paris. The showcase is curated and presented by Clément Beraud and organized by Format Court…. Read more »
Meet the Artist: Axel Straschnoy
Axel Straschnoy (born in 1978 in Buenos Aires) is a visual artist who lives and works in Helsinki. How he became an artist is a long and winding story, but his artistic career began at a film school in Buenos… Read more »
Sami van Ingen’s Flame awarded with special mention at Art Film Fest, Slovakia
Sami van Ingen’s Flame (2018) was awarded with special mention for short film in the international competition of Art Film Fest, held in Košice, Slovakia, from June 15–23. The jury communicated the following statement: “Scattered pieces of a lost film: images… Read more »
Pink Twins’ Overlook screened at Fest Anča, Slovakia
Pink Twins’ Overlook (2017) will be screened at Fest Anča International Animation Festival, held from 28.6.–1.7. in Žilina, Slovakia. The short animation is included in the programme Anča in Mordor 2, screened on Saturday, June 30, at 22:30 in Stanica: Container. Impossible… Read more »