La Cineteca Nacional in Mexico celebrates Finnish cinema with a special programme of eight feature-length films and nine short films. The event is held from April 12–19. The selection includes films by Mika Taanila and Marja Helander. Mika Taanila‘s Tectonic… Read more »
Films by Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Joakim Pusenius, Jan Ijäs, and Pink Twins at Rencontres Internationales
Short films by Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Joakim Pusenius, Jan Ijäs, and Pink Twins are screened at Rencontres Internationales. The festival is held in Paris from April 10–15. Eija-Liisa Ahtila‘s Studies on the Ecology of Drama (2017) is included in the opening… Read more »
Finnish media artists selected for the first Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art
The first Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art (RIBOCA1) will be held from 2.6.–28.10.2018. The theme of the RIBOCA1 is “Everything Was Forever Until It Was No More”. The Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art (RIBOCA) is an international biennial… Read more »
Timo Wright’s Solace competes at 20minmax International Short Film Festival, Ingolstadt
Timo Wright’s Solace (2017) was picked for the competition selection of 20minmax International Short Film Festival, held from April 20–28 in Ingolstadt, Germany. The film will be screened on Thursday, April 26, at 20:00 in Audi Programmkino. Solace is an… Read more »
Anssi Kasitonni’s Saladdin Castique & Laura Horelli’s Namibia Today picked for ISFF Oberhausen
Anssi Kasitonni’s Saladdin Castique (2018) and Laura Horelli’s Namibia Today (2018) are selected for the official competitions of International Short Film Festival Oberhausen. Held for the 64th time from May 3–8, Oberhausen is one of the oldest short film festivals… Read more »
Helena Öst’s A Home in Memory screened at The 15th World Film Festival, Tartu
Helena Öst’s A Home in Memory (2016) will be screened at the 15th World Film Festival, held in the Estonian National Museum, Tartu, from March 19–23. The screening of Öst’s film takes place on Friday, March 23, at 15:15. A… Read more »
Tuomas A. Laitinen’s and Mika Taanila’s works at OLHO III, Brazil
Video art and experimental films by Tuomas A. Laitinen and Mika Taanila are included in the third edition of OLHO, held in Cineteatro São Luiz, Fortaleza from 28.2.–1.3. and in the Cinemateca of Museu de Arte Moderna of Rio de… Read more »
The World Premiere of Laura Horelli’s Namibia Today at Berlinale Forum Expanded
Laura Horelli’s new video Namibia Today (2018) will have its World Premiere at Berlinale Forum Expanded. The 13th Forum Expanded Programme opens at the Akademie der Künste on Hanseatenweg on February 14 under the title “A Mechanism Capable of Changing Itself”…. Read more »
Timo Wright’s Ex Nihilo screened at Slamdance Film Festival
Timo Wright’s Ex Nihilo (2017) will be screened at Slamdance Film Festival, held in Park City, Utah, from January 19–25. The festival is a showcase for raw and innovative filmmaking self governed. Slamdance marks the world festival premiere for the… Read more »
Five short docs from Jan Ijäs’s Waste series screened at Watch Docs IFF
Five short documentary films from Jan Ijäs’s ongoing Waste series are screened at Watch Docs International Film Festival. Held from December 7–14 in Warsaw, the festival focuses on human rights in film. The screenings of Ijäs’s “Waste” films take place… Read more »