National Competition 10: Shorts 3

Screenings 8–11 of National Competition are dedicated to short films selected into the competition. No geoblocks.

NOTE! Single screening ticket is valid for 24 hours after the purchase.

PAKO
ESCAPE

Anne Lakanen, Tahvo Hirvonen | Finland 2020 | Experimental, Documentary | 16 min

Civilians escape bombings and are evacuated. Story of civilians in the wars of Finland in 1939-1945

WHERE TO LAND

Sawandi Groskind | Finland 2020 | Fiction | 16 min

An elderly mute woman finds herself on a remote island, where she subsequently meets a young man who longs to visit his mother.

PATENT NR. 314805

Mika Taanila | Finland 2020 | Experimental, Documentary | 3 min

Finnish engineer Eric Tigerstedt solved the dilemma of sound-on-film already before the First World War. All images and sounds in this short film are produced from the surviving test materials originally created in 1914.

KUORIUTUA, KUKOISTAA, KUOLLA
TO FEATHER, TO WITHER

Hanna Hovitie | Belgium, Finland, Hungary, Portugal 2020 | Experimental, Documentary | 20 min

A young female taxidermy apprentice is working to give new life to deceased birds. She is fascinated with one species in particular – crows. In ancient myths and legends, the crow represents a mediator between life and death. For her, death is not a strange thing, but something tangible, an inseparable element in the cycle of existence. In her world, a black cat is playing curiously with an unfinished crow and a piece of meat embodies both the demise of an animal and a new beginning, nurturing a newborn bird fluttering in its nest. Portrayed in a language of symbols, the film lingers somewhere between documentary, fiction and poetry.

IKUISESTI MOSKOVA
MOSKOVA FOREVER

Virva Kunttu, Vuokko Kunttu | Finland 2020 | Fiction | 13 min

Timo meets the woman of his dreams in a weird bar complex. He fuels his alcoholic tendencies by seducing the ghost trapped in a limbo of underachieving.

REKONSTRUKTIO
RECONSTRUCTION

Pia Andell | Finland 2021 | Documentary, Fiction | 18 min

Reconstruction tells about a certain night in 1982, reconstructed in 2020 by the people who lived it through together. The film combines dance, drama and documentary, but most of all is a story of a friendship of a boy and a girl, and how jolly situations can turn sour and how, even though close, friends do not share same experiences – and that can have an effect on their friendship.