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30 Kilometres per Second

30 kilometriä sekunnissa
Jani Peltonen
International Competition Documentary Film 2023
Documentary Film
Finland
2023
23 minutes
English,
Finnish
Subtitles: 
English

The narrator of the film was diagnosed with proprioception disorder by her physiotherapist: She lacks a normal awareness of her body in space and thus a reference to the world around her. Dancing as a therapy might help. Instead, she takes a ghost train into Finland’s television history, to the 1960s, when ordinances forbade spontaneous dancing because of a Medieval decree.

Young people were robbed of their body awareness, Finland, with its peculiar position between the blocks of the Cold War, stood untethered in the political geography of the time. Connections were made through television, Swiss campaigns for the independence of the West African province of Biafra, the weightless moon landing, U.S. American stars from soap operas and TV western shows. Travelling without moving. Do ghosts have proprioception? Wouldn’t they float out of this world otherwise? Or are they kept tethered to the ground by film and television recordings?

Jan Künemund

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Director
Jani Peltonen
Script
Jani Peltonen
Cinematographer
Jani Peltonen
Editor
Anni Tiainen, Julia Matinniemi
Producer
Joona Mielonen
Sound Design
Saku Anttila
Score
Emil Sana
Narrator
Emmi Parviainen
Winner of: Silver Dove Short Film (International Competition Documentary Film)
International Competition Short Film 2022
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Blush – An Extraordinary Voyage
Iiti Yli-Harja
A wild stop motion animadoc trip through the glittering dreams of an astronaut who gathers all his courage to show himself to the world as he is. Set course for star date LGBTQAI+.
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Blush – An Extraordinary Voyage

Blush – An Extraordinary Voyage
Iiti Yli-Harja
International Competition Short Film 2022
Animated Film
Finland
2022
15 minutes
Finnish
Subtitles: 
English

A marvellously wild stop motion animadoc trip to unknown worlds, in which 18-year-old astronaut Fatu sets himself a challenge that’s as nerve-racking to him as a lunar expedition. He wants to go shopping at the supermarket – for the first time as he sees himself: in full glam make-up. How will his family with their Kosovar roots react to these new coordinates? Will his self-perception and the others’ perception clash? Set course for star date LGBTQAI+.

Luc-Carolin Ziemann

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Director
Iiti Yli-Harja
Script
Iiti Yli-Harja
Cinematographer
Iiti Yli-Harja
Editor
Otto Heikola
Producer
Valtteri Munkki, Mikko Heino
Sound
Ville-Matti Koskiniemi
Score
Iiti Yli-Harja, Ville-Matti Koskiniemi
Animation
Iiti Yli-Harja
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Pekka Härkönen
Nominated for: mephisto 97.6 Audience Award
Kids DOK 2021
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Goodbye Tornio
Emilia Hernesniemi
The film follows Vilma on her last weekend in her hometown of Tornio, a small place in Lapland. Very soon she will move far away to the big city of Helsinki.
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Goodbye Tornio

Hei hei Tornio
Emilia Hernesniemi
Kids DOK 2021
Documentary Film
Finland
2021
15 minutes
Finnish
Subtitles: 
German Subtitles for deaf and hard-of-hearing

The film follows Vilma on her last weekend in her hometown of Tornio, a small place in Lapland. She celebrates her graduation, has a great time with her family and friends in the lightheartedness of summer and says goodbye to her old life. Very soon she will be far away. Her new home is the big city of Helsinki, a ten-hour drive from Tornio.

Lina Dinkla

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Director
Emilia Hernesniemi
Script
Emilia Hernesniemi
Cinematographer
Iris Heikka
Editor
Maija Karhula
Producer
Eveliina Mauno
Sound
Saku Anttila
Score
Rolf Gustavson
Homage Avi Mograbi 2021
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The First 54 Years – An Abbreviated Manual for Military Occupation
Avi Mograbi
Why and for what purpose does politics resort to the model of “military occupation”? Avi Mograbi uses the example of “Israel-Palestine” to explain its standard mechanisms and aporias.
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The First 54 Years – An Abbreviated Manual for Military Occupation

54 hashanim harishonot – madrikh mekutzar lekibush tzva’i
Avi Mograbi
Homage Avi Mograbi 2021
Documentary Film
France,
Finland,
Israel,
Germany
2021
110 minutes
Hebrew,
English
Subtitles: 
English

The archived testimonies of “Breaking the Silence”, an association of military veterans, are to be turned into a compilation of “service incidents” in the Israeli-occupied territories. But Avi Mograbi confesses: “My films tend to get complicated, even when my intention is to make a very simple film.” His reaction to a complex doom is artistically and intellectually commensurate: complex. Once again he uses a built-in commentary function in which he himself, white-bearded, explains the tricky situation to his audience: not as a special “Israel-Palestine” case, but as the bitter standard application of the globally familiar aporetic model of “military occupation”.

Sylvia Görke

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Director
Avi Mograbi
Script
Avi Mograbi
Cinematographer
Tulik Gallon, Philippe Bellaiche
Editor
Avi Mograbi
Producer
Camille Laemlé, Serge Lalou
Co-Producer
Annie Ohayon-Dekel, Fabrice Puchault, Heino Deckert, Leila Lyytikäinen, Elina Pohjola, Farid Rezkallah, Anne Grolleron, Avi Mograbi
Sound
Avi Mograbi
World Sales
The Party Film Sales
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To Feather, to Wither

To Feather, to Wither
Hanna Hovitie
International Competition Short Film 2020
Documentary Film
Belgium,
Finland,
Hungary,
Portugal
2020
20 minutes
English captions
Subtitles: 
None

A young taxidermist is fascinated by crows, paying considerate attention to their dead bodies. Her work on the birds is simultaneously a careful study of anatomical connections and a kind of service toward the resurrection of this mythical creature from the realm between life and death. Through detailed, pulsating black-and-white images and a sparingly intense soundtrack, a charged atmosphere unfolds between craftsmanship, imagination and poetry.

Ralph Eue

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Director
Hanna Hovitie
Script
Hanna Hovitie
Cinematographer
Daniel Donato
Editor
Hanna Hovitie
Producer
Hanna Hovitie, Daniel Donato
Co-Producer
Patricia D'Intino
Sound
Bence Kovács-Vajda
Score
Bence Kovács-Vajda
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Vika!

Vika!
Agnieszka Zwiefka
Audience Competition 2023
Documentary Film
Poland,
Germany,
Finland
2023
74 minutes
Polish,
English
Subtitles: 
English

Imagine the last day of your life has dawned. What will stand up to review? What brings contentment? What brings regrets? “Vika!” is a film about the value of life and self-discovery, inspiring us to reflect on one’s chosen path and its forks and to stay true to oneself.

Vika, the 84-year-old main protagonist, a mother and grandmother several times over, looks back on a difficult childhood and many years of working in a “proper” job. When she retired, she seized the opportunity to reinvent herself. She became a DJ and star of the Warsaw nightclubs, who regularly drives her young audience wild. Super cool? Inappropriate for an elderly lady? Agnieszka Zwiefka’s portrait deconstructs the borders between the “acceptable” and “unacceptable” roles of a woman who refuses to acknowledge her age. Vika wants to live in the moment, with no ties to the past. Zwiefka combines elements of music and narrative documentary films and creates an enchanting, immediately accessible and utopian world. Dancing to Vika’s rhythms means freeing yourself from the limitations dictated by society, age and sometimes even one’s own children.

Victoria Leshchenko

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Director
Agnieszka Zwiefka
Script
Agnieszka Zwiefka
Cinematographer
Monika Kotecka
Editor
Katarzyna Orzechowska, Michał Poddębniak
Producer
Katarzyna Ślesicka, Anna Stylińska
Co-Producer
Heino Deckert, Tina Börner, Outi Rousu, Elena Filippini
Sound
Katarzyna Szczerba, Anna Rok
Sound Design
Pietari Koskinen
Score
Paivi Takala
World Sales
Liselot Verbrugge
Nominated for: MDR Film Prize