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 »
Suddenly Last Summer by Juha Mäki-Jussila awarded a special mention at the Inntravel Award for Best Short Film 2013 @ Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival
The inaugural Inntravel Award for Best Short Film took place as part of Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival last weekend – with Sight & Sound editor Nick James, filmmaker Eva Weber, and artist-curator Anna Linder announcing the Award following a… Read more »