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 »
Elli Vuorinen’s Still Lives awarded the Golden Gunnar Grand Prix at Fredrikstad Animation Festival
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 »