International Competition presents the short films selected into the competition.
Language: Eng, Fin Duration: 84 min Age Limit: 12+
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Fri 7.3. -
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Finnkino Cine Atlas 1 -
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FR44
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Sat 8.3.
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12:30
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Finnkino Cine Atlas 1
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ST70
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Camino mientras los glaciares se derriten
I Walk While Glaciers MeltDirector: Lucia Lambarri BarberisCountry: Peru, United KingdomYear: 2024Genre: Animation, DocumentaryDuration: 9 minThis visual essay blends animation and live-action footage to take the audience on a journey through the Andean mountains and snowy peaks of Cusco, Peru. The film traverses the director’s reflections on walking as a medium for embracing life’s fragility and transformation. By revisiting Andean relational animism, rituals, and pilgrimage, the film interrogates modernity and our place in an era of melting glaciers, while celebrating the shared journey with others.
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Gusarapos
CrawliesDirector: Ulysse de MaximyCountry: MexicoYear: 2024Genre: Experimental, FictionDuration: 18 minCrawlies is a soliloquy based on voice recordings of my schizophrenic uncle. An audiovisual exercise of mise en abyme that weaves a patchwork of memories from my childhood, of madness and desire.
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Tracing for Traces
Director: Masa KudoCountry: JapanYear: 2023Genre: Experimental, Animation, DocumentaryDuration: 6 minMy father’s 100-year-old family home may soon be torn down. Filled with traces of past lives, it holds the weight of memory. To preserve those memories, I captured them on film.
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He Ma
HippopotamiDirector: JJ LinCountry: ChinaYear: 2025Genre: FictionDuration: 13 minIn the suburbs of a northern Chinese city undergoing urbanization, a quirky girl who wants to see animals in the zoo is taken for a ride which will forever change her perspective on life.
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Pesë stinët e fëmijërisë sime
Five Seasons of My ChildhoodDirector: Besim UgzmajliCountry: Kosovo, SpainYear: 2025Genre: Experimental, Animation, DocumentaryDuration: 15 min
A journey through childhood memories brings nostalgia full of pain and love. Nothing is as it was in childhood; only memories roam freely and illuminate in retrospect. The environment and everything of that time has been violently ruined and altered by someone. Seasons have settled in the ruins of troubled memories.
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Vox Humana
Director: Don Josephus Raphael EblahanCountry: The Philippines, United States, SingaporeYear: 2024Genre: FictionDuration: 23 minAn eccentric biologist interrogates a wild man found in the forest after an earthquake hit a small mountain town.
