TBA

Total time: 49 mins

Ukraine, Germany 2025 | 8 mins | Languages: Ukrainian, Russian | Subtitles: Finnish, English
Original title: Movchat' ptakhy
Director: Leo Dzhyshyashvili
Cinematography: Leo Dzhyshyashvili, Ivan Baliuk, Dmytro Makarov
Editors: Leo Dzhyshyashvili, Daria Penkova
Music: Katya Chilly
Production: Luisa Nöllke | lnoellke@gmail.com
Distribution: Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, kurzfilmtage.de/en/, dw@kurzfilmtage.de

On 9 February 2022, a group of young Ukrainian men are sitting around a table in Kyiv. They are discussing a possible Russian invasion of Ukraine and what they would do if war broke out.

Finland 2026 | 15 mins | Language: Finnish | Subtitles: English
Director: Viljami Penttilä
Script: Onerva Kari
Cinematography: Alexander Rytkönen
Editor: Mathilda Elias
Music: Ville Valtanen (composer), Tiia Horppu (singer, lyricist)
Cast: Elsa Lagerstedt, Elo Umukoro, Stella Leppikorpi, Ilona Huhta
Production: Rosa Honkonen, Elli Melasniemi, Elmo Nikula | ELO Film School
Distribution: Saara Toivanen | ELO Film School, saara.toivanen@aalto.fi

Janina, a teenager, is unhappy with her place in the school hierarchy. Designer clothes, appearance and family wealth seem to determine everyone’s status. When Janina hears from her friends about the nasty rumours circulating about her, the group of friends decide to steal a designer handbag for Janina from a shop.

Finland 2026 | 6 mins | Language: Finnish | Subtitles: English
Directors: Inka Achté, Einari Paakkanen
Cinematography: Antti Savolainen
Editor: Einari Paakkanen
Production: Inka Achté, Einari Paakkanen | Metku Collective
Distribution: Andrew Norton | Raina Film Festival Distribution, rainafilms.com, andy@rainafilms.com

A group of Finnish lads who’ve just got their driving licences head to the centre of Puolanka to check out the girls, whilst a group of older men chat in the café at the local petrol station. But where are the women?

Norway 2025 | 20 mins | Language: Norwegian | Subtitles: Finnish, English
Original title: Stakkars Meg
Director, script: Liv Joelle Barbosa Blad
Cinematography: Jonathan Bjerstedt
Editor: Odin Norum Kvistad
Music: Florent Chronie-De Maria
Cast: Anna Drakopoulou Sverrisdóttir, Iris Drakopoulou Sverrisdóttir, Carmen Gloria Pérez, Jan Gunnar Røise
Production: Louise Beyer, Jonas Bruun | Storm Films - SKALA
Distribution: Vanesa Toca | Agencia Freak, vanesa@agenciafreak.com

Nora, a teenager, is caught shoplifting and is given a well-deserved telling-off at home. It soon becomes clear that family values in this Norwegian household are perhaps a little askew. The saying ‘the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree’ rings true as we follow the family’s Christmas celebrations in the presence of Nora's bungling writer father, her Colombian mother and her little sister Amalie, who acted as her accomplice.