International Competition 4: Economics

International Competition screenings present the most recent short films.

Language: Eng, Fin Duration: 90 min Age Limit: 12+

  • kalenteri-ikoni Thu 5.3.

  • kelloikoni 10:15

  • karttaikoni Finnkino Cine Atlas 1

  • 12,50

  • D017

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  • kalenteri-ikoni Fri 6.3.

  • kelloikoni 20:45

  • karttaikoni Finnkino Cine Atlas 1

  • 12,50

  • E045

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  • Green Grey Black Brown

    Director: Yuyan Wang
    Country: China, France, South Korea
    Year: 2024
    Genre: Experimental, Documentary
    Duration: 12 min

    A synthetic realm unfolds, meticulously engineered by global startups. Everything is bound together by a dark slime – an oily, recurrent presence that merges Jurassic-era flora with plastic plant decorations destined for shopping malls. Petroleum, in both refined and unrefined forms, opens up a portal to the gory logics of petro-capitalism and global extraction practices, revealing the flawed rationale behind techno-solutionist visions of the future.

  • Norheimsund

    Director: Ana A. Alpizar
    Country: Cuba, United States
    Year: 2025
    Genre: Fiction
    Duration: 12 min

    A girl’s long-distance romance with an older Norwegian man promises to pull her and her mother out of their austere life in Cuba, but her dreams are shaken when she realizes he isn’t as idyllic as he seems.​

  • CORE DUMP

    Director: Alona Rodeh
    Country: Germany
    Year: 2025
    Genre: Experimental, Animation
    Duration: 6 min

    A CGI short film rendered in a game engine, presenting a surreal vision of drone swarms scavenging for e-waste. Unfolding an expansive landfill, the work is a commentary on geopolitics of waste and theater of post-modern conflicts.

  • Air Horse One

    Director: Lasse Linder
    Country: Switzerland, Belgium
    Year: 2025
    Genre: Documentary
    Duration: 21 min

    Training, Take-Off, Grand Prix. Legacy is one of the most valuable and celebrated horses in show jumping. In pursuit of victories, she is flown between competition venues across the globe. Air Horse One follows Legacy on her long journeys in the business class of equine air travel.

  • Woman Land

    Director: Yasmin Yassin
    Country: United States
    Year: 2025
    Genre: Fiction
    Duration: 11 min

    Two young Somali sisters in Minneapolis have to balance rebellion with their reputations when their secret matchmaking business attracts a client a little too close to home.

  • Faceless

    Director: Fraser Pemberton, William Jaka
    Country: Australia
    Year: 2025
    Genre: Fiction
    Duration: 28 min

    An Indigenous man navigates three parallel realities; at once a rough-sleeper, an aspiring actor and the employee of a mining corporation. Can he find a place within Australian society or is he bound to remain an outsider in his own land?