Elli Vuorinen’s Still Lives won the Golden Gunnar Grand Prix at the Fredrikstad Animation Festival, held 24-27.10 in Fredrikstad, Norway. The Jury states: “The winning film is in equal parts funny, sacral and contemplative. Dancing between modernity and history, it… 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 »
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 »
Carolin Koss’s Copper Mountains awarded with Donne Si Fa Storia award at Edera Film Festival
Carolin Koss’s documentary film Copper Mountains (2018) was awarded with Donne Si Fa Storia award at Edera Film Festival. The prize will be given at Venice Film Festival on Saturday, August 31. The Donne Si Fa Storia project offers an… Read more »
Patrik Söderlund’s Realms awarded at Signes de Nuit Bangkok
Patrik Söderlund’s Realms (2018) was awarded with Night Award at Signes de Nuit Bangkok, held from June 22–30 in Bangkok, Thailand. The Night Award honours films, which are able to balance ambiguity and complexity characterised by enigmatic mysteriousness and subtleness,… Read more »
Sami van Ingen’s Flame awarded with Optical Sound Award at Flatpack Festival
Sami van Ingen’s Flame (2018) was awarded with Optical Sound Award at Flatpack Festival, held from April 30 to May 6 in Birmingham, UK. The jury, consisting of Jani Lehto (composer and sound designer, Finland) & Bobbie-Jane Gardner (composer and producer,… Read more »
Fruits of the Loom by Jaakko Pallasvuo, Antti Jussila & Jari Kallio awarded at EMAF
Jaakko Pallasvuo’s, Antti Jussila’s & Jari Kallio’s Fruits of the Loom (2019) shared the main prize of EMAF with Dora García’s Segunda Vez / Second Time Around (2018). The 32nd European Media Art Festival (EMAF), held in Osnabrück from April 24–28. Jaakko Pallasvuo received… Read more »
Maija Blåfield’s and Sami van Ingen’s films awarded at Ann Arbor Film Festival!
Maija Blåfield’s and Sami van Ingen’s films were awarded at Ann Arbor Film Festival, held from March 26–31 in Ann Arbor, Michigan. This year’s jury consisted of Bryan Konefsky, Akosua Adoma Owusu, and Stacey Steers. Maija Blåfield’s On Destruction and Preservation… Read more »
Special Mention for Jukka Silokunnas’s Vanishing Point at Alter-Native ISFF
Jukka Silokunnas’s Vanishing Point (2017) was awarded with the Special Mention of the Jury in the international competition of Alter-Native Film Festival, held from November 7–11, Targu Mures, Romania. Vanishing Point portrays the visage of decomposition playing out in unreal time. “When I… Read more »
Special Mention for Minna Rainio’s & Mark Roberts’s They Came in Crowded Boats and Trains at FrontDoc
Minna Rainio’s and Mark Roberts’s They Came in Crowded Boats and Trains was awarded with a Special Mention of the Youth Jury. The Jury lauded the film for its touching story, topical theme, and appealing scenographic and cinematographic realisation. FrontDoc International… Read more »