Lauri Astala’s Sketch for the Last Map (2022, in featured image) was awarded for the Best Video Art at Flight Film Festival, held in Genova, Italy, from October 28 – November 1 2022. The jury gave the award “for making the… Read more »
Pinja Valja’s To Make a Film Just to Meet Vera awarded as the best video at Videomedeja
Pinja Valja’s To Make a Film Just to Meet Vera (2021) was awarded with the Sphinx Award for the Best Video at International New Media Art Festival Videomedeja, held in Novi Sad, Serbia from October 7–9 2022. The jury states:… Read more »
Anssi Kasitonni’s Le Saboteur awarded for the best direction at Drama International Short Film Festival, Greece
Anssi Kasitonni’s Le Saboteur was awarded for the best direction at Drama International Short Film Festival, held in Drama, Greece, from September 5–11 2022. The jury gave the award “to a fearless director who made a memorable film that captures… Read more »
They Go Gentle into That Night Work by Soile Mottisenkangas awarded the best Nordic short documentary at Västerås Film Festival 2022
They Go Gentle into That Night Work (2020) directed by Soile Mottisenkangas and produced by Kimmo Koskinen was awarded as of the best Nordic short documentary at Västerås Film Festival last weekend. The film festival was held in Västerås Sweden… Read more »
Maija Tammi’s The Problem of the Hydra awarded as the best short film at the 57th international Festival of Science Documentary Films, Olomouc
Maija Tammi’s The Problem of the Hydra (2020) won the international short film competition of the 57th International Festival of Science Documentary Films, Olomouc, held from April 26 to May 1 2022 in Academia Film Olomouc, Czech Republic. The jury states… Read more »
Risto-Pekka Blom’s Human Torch awarded with Honorable Mention at Minimalen Short Film Festival
Risto-Pekka Blom’s Human Torch (2022) was awarded with a Honorable Mention in the Nordic Competition of Minimalen Short Film Festival, held from January 11–16 2022 in Trondheim, Norway. The Jury gave the mention “To a film that not only experiments… Read more »
Jenni Luhta’s and Lauri Luhta’s The Deluge awarded for the Best Writing at Austin Arthouse Film Festival
Jenni Luhta’s and Lauri Luhta’s feature-length fiction film The Deluge (2020) was awarded for the Best Writing at Austin Arthouse Film Festival, held online from December 26–31 2021. The film was also nominated for the Best Arthouse film and the… Read more »
They Go Gentle Into That Night Work by Soile Mottisenkangas awarded as the Best Experimental Documentary at Close:Up Edinburgh Docufest
They Go Gentle Into That Night Work (2020) by Soile Mottisenkangas was awarded as the Best Experimental Documentary at Close:Up Edinburgh Docufest, held from December 16–17 2021 in Cameo Picturehouse. In this creative short documentary about rhythm of work, a… Read more »
Maija Blåfield’s The Fantastic awarded with the First Prize at Videoex, Zürich – also in view in Canada, Lanzarote, and Luxembourg
Maija Blåfield’s The Fantastic (2020) was awarded with the first prize (ex aequo with Suneil Sanzgiri’s Letter from Your Far-Off Country, 2020) at Videoex Experimental Film & Video Festival, held in Zürich from October 1–10 2021. “Both films employ experimental,… Read more »
Jussi Eerola’s Blue Honda Civic won the main prize of the experimental film LABO competition of Prague Shorts
Jussi Eerola’s Blue Honda Civic (2020) was awarded as the Best Film LABO in the experimental competition of Prague Shorts, held as a hybrid festival from June 2–27 2021. The jury states: “A jury of representatives from the domestic art… Read more »