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Director Malin Almén / Script Malin Almén / Cinematography Animation by Malin Almén / 1 min / 2008

An animated film about really enjoying sharks!

Director Mikhail Zheleznikov / Script - / Cinematography - / 15 / 2008

Experimental documentary about the last seconds of life.

Director Kimmo Alakunnas / Script Kimmo Alakunnas / Cinematography Natalia Sahlit / 7,20 / 2010

A figure rises from the sea to dry land. This is the beginning of a journey to a city and a secret place where he finds what he's after. The Rite uses dance and movement as well as music as an element that leads the audience along. There are no spoken lines, so the viewer has more freedom to interpret the events of the film. It is a collaboration of film- and dance art.

Director Vesa Kuosmanen / Script Vesa Kuosmanen / Cinematography Antti Ojala / 8,30 / 2011 IrisFilmi Ay

Taxi driver Aarne (Lasse Karkjärvi) learns he suffers from lung cancer. He starts a desperate race after the last toke. The Finnish man who has lost his money and cigarettes goes wild. The dark flavored off-beat comedy Burn Out shows the fight of a lonely man in a suburb of Helsinki. The humor of the film reaches the same audience as Kaurismäki and Coen Bros films.

Director Skule Eriksen / Script Skule Eriksen / Cinematography Skule Eriksen / 24 min / 2009

The film Fjord was shot in Nærøyfjord, one of the narrowest fjords of Western Norway. The fjord is one of the main tourist attractions in Norway, and the landscape was included in UNESCOs world heritage list in 2005. The filmmaker Skule Eriksen wanted explore visually why this landscape is so famous and considered so valuable. During one year he tried to capture the atmosphere of a landscape with a deep cultural history, but which today is home to only a few people. His aim was purely artistic, as he also wanted to challenge the way we make films about nature. The film is poetic and rhythmic in its approach to the landscape. It aims to take the audience into the place, rather than only showing it to them. The film has no dialogue.

Director Johanna Vanhala / Script Johanna Vanhala / Cinematography Johanna Vanhala, kuvaus Helsingissä: Pekka Uotila / 15 minuuttia / 2010 Elokuvayhtiö Aamu

Short synopsis A documentary film about memories and oblivion. Mother and daughter are looking for moments they could share. Synopsis Could You Love is a documentary film about memories and oblivion. Mother and daughter are looking for moments they could share over a telephone conversation after twenty-four years of absence in each other’s lives. In this subjective documentary the moment of remembering is created by combining a phone call with 8 mm films and footage from the present day. The film creates remembering by demonstrating the subjectivity of memories: images are deleted, paused and fast-forwarded according to the person’s needs. A private story expands to a more general level and emphasizes the importance of remembering.

Director Sami Rehmonen ja Einari Vuorinen / Script Einari Vuorinen ja Sami Rehmonen / Cinematography Petri Koivisto / 5min34sek / 2010 Villilä Korporaatio Osuuskunta

Unexpected events lead to unexpected results.

Director Pirjo Ojala / Script Pirjo Ojala ja Tiina Laine / Cinematography Tiina Laine / 20 / 2011 Kynnys ry. Tiina Laine

“Distance is not an obstacle, it’s just a speed bump.” Jenni and Tuukka have chatted on the web and decide to meet each other live in Turku, Tuukka’s hometown. To avoid prejudices they have just “forgotten” to tell each other the whole truth about themselves: Jenni, ‘slightly nearsighted’, is actually visually impaired and Tuukka, ‘a bit slow to move’, is in wheelchair. It’s a long winding road to a date, filled with obstacles such as their own old patterns and concerned passers-by.

Director Malin Almén / Script Malin Almén / Cinematography Hajfilm/sharkmovie - animated short 2008 Skuggor/Shadows - animated short 2008 Supermommo - animated short 2005 / 3 min / 2010

An animated film about little men in disress and a dream of how to rescue them.

Director Izabela Plucinska, represented by New Europe Film Sales / Script Izabela Plucinska, Anna Jadowska / Cinematography Izabela Plucinska / 25 / 2009 Donten & Lacroix Films

A young bunny from the Esterhazy Dynasty in Vienna is sent to Berlin to find a bunny woman nearby some mysterious Berlin Wall. After a long search, Esterhazy finds a bunnies’ paradise on the green grass in between the East and the West part of the Wall. But it is the year 1989 and changes are approaching. The Berlin Wall is about to fall and our little heros have to run away.

Director Alexander Kiselev / Script Anastassia Matveeva / Cinematography Alexander Filippov / 26 / 2005

An Afghan war veteran Mikhail is trying to escape contemporary reality. He builds himself a submarine and navigates is in the Gulf of Finland. Gradually this hobby becomes the point of his life.

Director Anja Ahola / Script Anja Ahola / Cinematography Anja Ahola / 29 / 2011 Ima Filbma- ja Sátneduodji

Santeri (26) decides to become a monk in Thailand and to give up everything he has in Finland. His sister and the director of this documentary Anja Ahola, wants to understand her brother’s great decision to leave behind his possessions, friends and family and to become an ascetic Buddhist monk for the rest of his life.

Director Jani Peltonen / Script Jani Peltonen / Cinematography Heikki Färm F.S.C / 19´ / 2010 Mouka filmi, Sami Jahnukainen

Väinö Myllyrinne was one of the first internationally known Finnish celebrities, thanks to his height of nearly 2,5 meters. After his death, Väinö, or rather his figure, became immortal. His journey continues in our collective memory, best reprised by a life-size puppet, which tours the World much like Väinö did when he was still alive. “A Tall Man” pictures Väinö’s endless journey from the glittering European metropolises of the 1930’s to the local supermarkets and museums of today, which hold and preserve his belongings. It is a lyric, yet melancholy story about civilization’s obsession to organize and categorize the World.

Director Juuso Räsänen / Script Juuso Räsänen / Cinematography Aleksi Ahonen / 14:08 / 2011

The Scoop is a drama about two reporters of an imaginary yellow publication trying to get the story of a certain famous person's love affair. The short film is set entirely around the stake-out - the reporters' car and the house in question. Veteran reporter Leo "Leipis" Sipilä (Vesa Vierikko) and younger Arto Käki (Kari Ketonen) are different personalities but have similar questionable methods getting their scoops.

Director Stina Östberg / Script / Cinematography Stina Östberg, Mudee Cagata / 18 min / 2010

Floating Island is a film where all hours take place at work. The film captures life a board an oil tanker during a two week journey, Gävle-Gdansk-Amsterdam-Rotterdam. The pictures depict the boat´s different sides, both the daily work and life on board and the environment around it. The centre of the boat is the kitchen and the chef Jari who with warmth feeds the crew three times a day, seven days a week and sings karaoke in the coffee breaks. Life and work a board is like a ongoing rythem, counting the days until the next leave. In between the long hours of work conversations takes place, ventilating for instance what happens to migratory birds that needs a place to rest, losing money in the stock market, or for the philippine part of the crew watching and commenting the same matsh over and over again with their favourite boxer Pacquiao.