August Joensalo’s Space Is Quite a Lot of Things (2021) was selected for BFI Flare London LGBTQIA+ Film Festival, held in BFI Southbank from March 16-27 2022. Joensalo’s film is included in a joint screening with Angelo Madsen Minax’s feature-length… Read more »
AV-arkki delves into rituals, Sami Sänpäkkilä in focus, and other highlights at Tampere Film Festival
Tampere Film Festival presents a three-part retrospective and a masterclass by Sami Sänpäkkilä. AV-arkki’s this year’s collaborative screenings delve into rituals, both social and magical. AV-arkki also contributes to the festival’s industry programme with a panel discussion on short film… Read more »
Minna Långström’s Photosphere at Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition
Minna Långström’s Photosphere (2021) was selected for Kunsthal Charlottenborg’s Spring Exhibition, open from February 6 to March 13 2022 in Denmark. Photosphere revolves around the connection between a Hollywood studio film laboratory and a solar observatory during the era of… Read more »
Risto-Pekka Blom’s Human Torch awarded with Honorable Mention at Minimalen Short Film Festival
Risto-Pekka Blom’s Human Torch (2022) was awarded with a Honorable Mention in the Nordic Competition of Minimalen Short Film Festival, held from January 11–16 2022 in Trondheim, Norway. The Jury gave the mention “To a film that not only experiments… Read more »
Jenni Luhta’s and Lauri Luhta’s The Deluge awarded for the Best Writing at Austin Arthouse Film Festival
Jenni Luhta’s and Lauri Luhta’s feature-length fiction film The Deluge (2020) was awarded for the Best Writing at Austin Arthouse Film Festival, held online from December 26–31 2021. The film was also nominated for the Best Arthouse film and the… Read more »
Anssi Kasitonni’s and Mika Taanila’s short films in the international competition of Stuttgarter Filmwinter
Anssi Kasitonni’s Deus ex Machina (2021, in featured image) and Mika Taanila’s Failed Emptiness. Time (2021) were selected for the International Competition of Stuttgarter Filmwinter, held online from January 7–16 2022. The online screenings are available in Germany only. Mika… Read more »
They Go Gentle Into That Night Work by Soile Mottisenkangas awarded as the Best Experimental Documentary at Close:Up Edinburgh Docufest
They Go Gentle Into That Night Work (2020) by Soile Mottisenkangas was awarded as the Best Experimental Documentary at Close:Up Edinburgh Docufest, held from December 16–17 2021 in Cameo Picturehouse. In this creative short documentary about rhythm of work, a… Read more »
Short films by Azar Saiyar, Mika Taanila, Matti Harju, and Risto-Pekka Blom in the Nordic Competition of Minimalen Short Film Festival
The 34th Minimalen Short Film Festival will be held from January 11–16 2022 in Trondheim, Norway. Four short films by our artists were selected for the Nordic Competition: Mika Taanila’s Failed Emptiness. Time (2021), Matti Harju’s El Centro (2021), Azar… Read more »
Maija Blåfield’s The Fantastic in competition screenings in Italy and Iran
Maija Blåfield’s The Fantastic (2020) was selected for competition programmes of Laceno d’Oro International Film Festival, held from December 1–8 2021 in Avellino, Italy, and online, and Iran DocFest CinemaVerite, held from December 9–16 2021 in the Documentary and Experimental… Read more »
Mox Mäkelä’s Andjust and Jenni & Lauri Luhta’s The Deluge awarded at Innuendo Film Festival
Mox Mäkelä’s Andjust (2020, in featured image) and Jenni and Lauri Luhta’s The Deluge were awarded at Innuendo Film Festival, held from October 27-30 2021 in Milan, Italy. Andjust was awarded as the best experimental film while The Deluge was… Read more »