Anssi Kasitonni’s Saladdin Castique (2018) was awarded with the special mention by the youth jury at Curtocircuíto International Short Film Festival, held from September 29 to October 7 in Santiago de Compostela. Previously, Saladdin Castique was awarded with a Special Mention at the 64th International… Read more »
Sami van Ingen’s Flame won the Videorama award for the best experimental film at Timishort FF
Sami van Ingen’s Flame (2018) was awarded with Videorama award for the best experimental film at Timishort Film Festival, held from October 3–7 in Romania. Flame is a fractured melodrama, based on damaged frames from the last minutes of the only… Read more »
Laura Horelli’s Namibia Today Awarded with a honorary mention at CineMigrante, Buenos Aires
Laura Horelli’s Namibia Today (2018) was awarded with a honorary mention “Mención CineMigrante” in the competitive 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… Read more »
Visual artist Saara Ekström receives the AVEK Award for media arts
The winner of the 2018 AVEK Award is visual artist Saara Ekström. The AVEK Award for media arts, worth EUR 15,000, was presented today at the 40th anniversary celebration of Kopiosto, held in Bio Rex, Helsinki. The AVEK Award, granted… 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 »
Jan Ijäs’s Waste no. 1 Money awarded at Huesca IFF
Jan Ijäs’s short documentary film Waste no. 1 Money was awarded with the first prize in the international competition for short documentary films at the 46th Huesca International Film Festival, held from 8.–16.6.2018. The jury states that the director Jan Ijäs… Read more »
Anssi Kasitonni’s Saladdin Castique awarded with Special Mention at ISFF Oberhausen
Anssi Kasitonni’s Saladdin Castique (2018) was awarded with a Special Mention at the 64th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, held from May 3–8. The Jury of the Ministry for Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia states: “Nonsense… Read more »
Amnesty International Award for Jan Ijäs’s Waste no. 5 The Raft of the Medusa at IndieLisboa
Jan Ijäs’s Waste no. 5 The Raft of the Medusa (2017) was awarded with Amnesty International Award at the 15th IndieLisboa, held in Portugal from 26.4.–6.5.2018. The jury communicated the following statement: “It is with subtle irony and with a lot… Read more »
Timo Wright’s Solace awarded at 20MINMAX INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILM FESTIVAL, INGOLSTADT
Timo Wright’s Solace (2017) was awarded as the best short film monochrome at 20minmax International Short Film Festival, held from April 20–28 in Ingolstadt, Germany. Solace is an experimental short film about the necessity of grief, an ode to sadness. The film… Read more »
Salla Tykkä is the first Finnish director to win the Tiger Award for Short Film at Rotterdam Film Festival
Salla Tykkä has reveiced the Tiger Award for Short Film at Rotterdam Film Festival for her film Giant (2014). She is the first Finnish director to receive this acknowledgment. Giant was filmed at the famous, Romanian, Communist-era gymnastics schools of Onesti and Deva where… Read more »