International Competition 9: Get Up, Stand Up

International Competition screenings present the most recent short films.

Language: Eng, Fin Duration: 92 min Age Limit: 16+

  • kalenteri-ikoni Fri 6.3.

  • kelloikoni 10:30

  • karttaikoni Finnkino Cine Atlas 1

  • 12,50

  • E041

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  • kalenteri-ikoni Sat 7.3.

  • kelloikoni 12:30

  • karttaikoni Finnkino Cine Atlas 1

  • 12,50

  • F070

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  • La voix du stade

    Voice of the Arena
    Director: Ahmed Dendane, Alexandre Tarek Bougja
    Country: France, Morocco
    Year: 2025
    Genre: Documentary
    Duration: 3 min

    In the immense jungle that is the city of Casablanca, young Leila seeks to make her voice heard amid the tumult. A fervent supporter of the Casablanca Olympic Club, she is the first woman to run a supporters' club in an environment where power is exclusively in the hands of men.

  • Living Despite Them

    Director: Antonia Colodro, Alaa Hathleen
    Country: Palestine
    Year: 2024, 2025
    Genre: Documentary
    Duration: 19 min

    Filmed entirely with cellphone footage, Alaa, a soccer player and physical therapist from Umm al-Kheir in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, records daily life amid demolitions, settler violence, and military control.

  • Movchat' ptakhy

    The Birds Are Silent
    Director: Leo Dzhyshyashvili
    Country: Germany, Ukraine
    Year: 2025
    Genre: Documentary
    Duration: 8 min

    On 9 February 2022, four friends in Kyiv discuss the situation: There are 120,000 Russian soldiers at the borders – what will happen?

  • In My Hand

    Director: Marja Helander, Liselotte Wajstedt
    Country: Norway, Sweden, Finland
    Year: 2025
    Genre: Documentary
    Duration: 24 min

    The story of the indigenous activist Niillas Somby and the personal and historical struggles of the Sámi people. The film navigates between imprisonment, protests, and surreal encounters, providing a unique insight into one man's extraordinary journey. 

  • Scarlet Echoes

    Director: Hemanta Sadeeq
    Country: Bangladesh
    Year: 2025
    Genre: Documentary
    Duration: 8 min

    During Bangladesh’s 2024 student uprising, Scarlet Echoes merges real protest footage with fiction, following Adnan, a photojournalist and father, as he navigates a city in turmoil. His final image turns witness into absence, leaving behind a silence that lingers.

  • A fronteira azul

    The Blue Frontier
    Director: Dinis M. Costa
    Country: Portugal, France, Spain
    Year: 2025
    Genre: Fiction
    Duration: 30 min

    A clandestine shipwreck off the coast of an Andalusian city. While the civil guards sort out the castaways, the tourists go to the funfair and the trucks head north. Hallucinated, the refugees tread a concrete Europe that does not see them.