International Competition screenings present the most recent short films.
Language: Eng, Fin Duration: 90 min Age Limit: 7+
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Wed 4.3. -
18:15 -
Finnkino Cine Atlas 2 -
12,50
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C007
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Thu 5.3.
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19:00
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Arthouse Cinema Niagara
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12,50
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D039
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JISM(body)
Director: Husain Qaizar, Saad ZuberiCountry: PakistanYear: 2025Genre: DocumentaryDuration: 13 minIn conservative Pakistan, a photographer and his ambitious muses challenge social norms while chasing recognition and self-worth in a social media-driven world, engaging in candid conversations about culture, identity, body image, and vulnerability during a photoshoot.
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L'mina
Director: Randa MaroufiCountry: France, Italy, Morocco, QatarYear: 2025Genre: Experimental, DocumentaryDuration: 26 min
Jerada is a mining town in Morocco where coal extraction, although officially halted in 2001, continues informally to this day. L’mina recreates the current work in informal mining pits using a set design created in collaboration with the town’s residents, who perform in their own roles.
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Bloody Mess
Director: Megan WennbergCountry: CanadaYear: 2024Genre: Animation, DocumentaryDuration: 10 minWhen filmmaker Megan Wennberg's period went nuts, she thought her Uterus was out for revenge because she was almost 40 and hadn't given it a baby. But it turned out she had fibroids. Bloody Mess is a short, animated, personal documentary following Megan and her Uterus (voiced by actor Susan Kent) on their harrowing but darkly funny journey through the medical system to try and stop the bleeding.
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Chambre 206
Room 206Director: Laurie BiscegliaCountry: FranceYear: 2025Genre: DocumentaryDuration: 17 min
After going through the intense torsoplasty operation, he will no longer care about what the world may think. Reclaiming your body, entirely, is the only thing that matters. This documentary film accompanies Clair in his emotions: apprehension, euphoria, melancholy, recognition, not only in seeing his body change, but in recognizing himself. At last. And for the first time in his life.
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The Revolution Against Death
Director: Joshua OppenheimerCountry: Denmark, United StatesYear: 2026Genre: DocumentaryDuration: 24 min
A faded resort of plaster rococo, turquoise pools, gilt and chintz.
A thousand people gather to declare a revolution against aging and death. Fear is in the air – of nonbeing, of disease and pain, of being regarded as old or, worse, no longer being regarded at all.
Fear of having no one to take care of you, no one to talk to.
Fear of ending alone.
Fear of dying.
THE REVOLUTION AGAINST DEATH is my poem about these fears, about mortality, capitalism, desperate denial – and our universal longing for communion and love.
