Short Films 14+: Turning Points
TBA
Total time: 60 mins
Finland 2025 | 5 mins | No dialogue
Director, script, animation, editor, music: Markus Lehtokumpu
Production: Elli Vuorinen | Turku AMK turkuamk.fi, elli.vuorinen@turkuamk.fi
Distribution: Markus Lehtokumpu, markus.lehtokumpu@gmail.com
The formation of a three-piece rock band goes off the rails when the band members get into an argument over whose instrument makes the loudest sound.
Croatia 2026 | 14 mins | Language: Croatian | Subtitles: Finnish, English
Original title: Izvrsno, ništa manje
Director: Marina Zlatarić
Production: Marina Zlatarić | Manda – Film and Word, zlataric.marina@gmail.com
Distribution: Marina Zlatarić | Manda – Film and Word, zlataric.marina@gmail.com
Luna’s friends and teachers notice something odd about her behaviour. Is she really as innocent as she seems?
Japan 2024 | 20 mins | Language: Japanese | Subtitles: Finnish, English
Original title: Nete Mirukoto
Director, script, editor: Kousuke Sakoda
Cinematography: Yoshiaki Shimane
Music: Koh-ichi Fujimoto
Cast: Iroha Sakamoto, Koichi Kawanishi, Kaori Hara, Ikue Tatara
Production: Eiji Tsuyuki, Hisashi Shibuya, Kousuke Sakoda | KETTLE inc., IITSU co, az@iitsu.co.jp
Distribution: Yuko Nobe | yukonobe@gmail.com
Chiena, a teenager, has a grandmother who is in hospital and barely responds to the world around her. Chiena sets out to cheer her grandmother up by reading her own diary to her, but in doing so she stumbles upon some mysterious entries that take Chiena on a journey of discovery.
Ukraine 2026 | 21 mins | Languages: Ukrainian, French | Subtitles: Finnish, English
Original title: Rak-samitnyk – mayster vtechi
Director, script: Valeria Kalchenko
Cinematography: Olga Chernykh
Editor: Alexander Legostayev
Music: Leif Erikson
Cast: Oleksandra Ferenets, Maria Bruni, Maksym Panchenko, Anastasia Karpenko
Production: Larysa Gutarevych, Alla Belaya | gutarevich@gmail.com, alla@sarkestudio.com
Distribution: Valeria Kalchenko | valeriia.kl27@gmail.com
Vitalina’s parents are getting divorced, and she has to decide whether to move in with her mum or her dad. However, when her father decides to stay in the family home even after the divorce, tensions rise. Adding to her misery is the disappearance of Vitalina’s pet hermit crab and a talent show at school, which she really doesn’t want to take part in.




