National Competition 7: Shorts

National Competition presents the short films selected into the competition.

Language: Eng, Fin Duration: 88 min Age Limit: 12+

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  • Krakens Maw

    Director: Miro Santeri Seppänen
    Country: Finland
    Year: 2024
    Genre: Fiction
    Duration: 14 min

    A stubborn young metal musician meets her idol, hoping he will become her mentor. The good news: he wants to include her in his next project. The bad news: it's not what she was expecting.

  • Halli

    The Swimming Hall
    Director: Noora Kukkonen
    Country: Finland
    Year: 2024
    Genre: Documentary
    Duration: 10 min

    The documentary film Halli addresses body-related commentary and its impact on people's body image. Anonymous stories are set in a swimming hall, where we see a variety of body types. Finnish swimming hall culture respects body privacy. In the film, we follow stories from the women's locker room to the pool, highlighting the experiences of different generations and the body image challenges they face, reflecting the trauma passed down from one generation to the next.

  • Pukuhuone

    The Locker Room
    Director: Sebastian Granskog
    Country: Finland
    Year: 2024
    Genre: Fiction
    Duration: 11 min
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    The Locker Room is a youth horror short film about two middle school best friends who are yet to hit puberty and do everything in their power to avoid facing their greatest fear: the school’s locker room.

  • Lähemmäs

    Closer
    Director: Albert Aleksanteri Laine
    Country: Finland
    Year: 2024
    Genre: Experimental, Animation
    Duration: 8 min

    Closer is a jagged existential animation about how the perspective to life can change. It tells the story of an old artist, broken by his difficult memories. It is an animated short film made by one person about closeness, love, acceptance and healing.

  • Feet Up

    Director: Olli Ilpo Salonen
    Country: Finland
    Year: 2024
    Genre: Fiction
    Duration: 11 min
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    When gravity is flipped for all children and their world turns upside down, the ceiling becomes the floor and the floor becomes the ceiling!

  • Punarinta joka ei palannut

    The Robin That Never Returned
    Director: Jani Ahlstedt
    Country: Finland
    Year: 2025
    Genre: Documentary
    Duration: 13 min

    Tatu Hokkanen ringed a nestling robin in Finland in the 1990s. The bird was later found shot dead in Brescia in Northern Italy.


    Years later, bird conservationists Katia and Paolo are at the forefront of fighting bird poaching in the Province of Brescia, where the bird Tatu had ringed in the 1990s was found. Poachers are still targeting robins.


    Set in two countries, the story is about conservation work and love for the little birds, transcending national borders.

  • My Name Is Hope

    Director: Sherwan Haji
    Country: Finland
    Year: 2025
    Genre: Fiction
    Duration: 21 min

    A short film capturing the timeless struggle between oppressor and oppressed in an era where forgetfulness becomes the deadliest weapon against freedom.