Maija Blåfield’s The Fantastic (2020) was awarded as the Best Nordic Film at the 33rd Minimalen Short Film Festival, held online from January 12–17. The jury states: “The film strikes a beautiful balance between imagination, reality and what we choose… Read more »
Maija Blåfield’s The Fantastic awarded at Aesthetica Short Film Festival with Best of Fest & Best Documentary Awards
Maija Blåfield’s The Fantastic (2020) received the Best of Fest and the Best Documentary Awards at Aesthetica Short Film Festival in York, UK. The Best of Fest Award is the main award of the festival and includes £1,000 in prize… Read more »
Award for Innovation in Storytelling for Marja Helander’s Suodji at ImagineNative
Marja Helander’s short film Suodji (2020) was awarded with the Award for Innovation in Storytelling at ImagineNative Film + Media Arts Festival, held from October 20 – 25 in Toronto, Canada. Suodji is an adaptation of an old story from… Read more »
Maija Blåfield’s The Fantastic awarded as the best short documentary at DOKER, Moscow
Maija Blåfield’s The Fantastic (2020) was awarded as the best short documentary at Moscow International Documentary Film Festival DOKER, held from August 21–30 in Russia. Recently, The Fantastic was also awarded with the Sliced Onion Award for the Best Short… Read more »
Maija Blåfield’s The Fantastic awarded at MakeDox
Maija Blåfield’s The Fantastic (2020) won the Sliced Onion Award for the best short documentary film at MakeDox Creative Documentary Film Festival, held from August 19–26 in Macedonia. The Fantastic is a film about encountering the unknown and the relationship between… Read more »
Saara Ekström’s Body All Eyes awarded as the best experimental film at Melbourne Short Film Festival
Saara Ekström’s Body All Eyes (2018) was awarded as the Best Experimental Film at Melbourne Short Film Festival, held in February 10 2020 in Australia. Body All Eyes is a requiem for barren skies in which archaic myths of flying… Read more »
Mox Mäkelä’s Strange awarded as the Best Experimental Feature Film at FICMARC, Venezuela
Mox Mäkelä’s audio play film Strange (2018) was awarded as the Best Experimental Feature Film at Caribbean Sea International Film Festival, held from January 23–25 in Venezuela. “The ‘Strange’ will enter a house of the human world, with the trophy… Read more »
Carolin Koss’s Copper Mountains awarded in the Best Music category at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Film Festival, India
Carolin Koss’s mid-length documentary film Copper Mountains (2018) was awarded in the Best Music category at Chhatrapati Shivaji International Film Festival, India. The festival was held in the National Film Archive of India from December 29–30 2019. The music is… Read more »
Special Mention for Pilvi Takala’s The Stroker at the International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Bilbao – Zinebi 61
Pilvi Takala’s short film The Stroker (2019) was awarded with a special mention at the International Documentary and Short Film Festival of Bilbao – Zinebi 61, held from November 8–15 in the Basque Country, Spain. The Stroker is based on… Read more »
Minna Långström’s The Other Side of Mars awarded at Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival
Minna Långström’s documentary film The Other Side of Mars (2019) was awarded at the 23rd Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, held from October 24–29 in Czech Republic. Långström’s film won the main award of its competition selection “A Testimony on… Read more »