Tue 18 Nov at 15:00 | Studio | Tickets 3 €

Total time: 53 mins

Finland 2025 | 4 mins | Audio: Finnish | Subtitles: English
Original title: Vauhtipyräys
Directors: Anni Sairio, Joonatan Turkki
Script, music: Joonatan Turkki
Animation: Anni Sairio
Editors: Anni Sairio, Joonatan Turkki
Cast: Timo Turkki
Production: Ella Ruohonen | ellaruo@gmail.com
Distribution: Side Stories, https://sidestories.fi/, mikko@sidestories.fi

A commute can be the most fun part of the day. But just how wild can a 300-meter sprint get?

Finland 2024 | 4 mins | Audio: Finnish | Subtitles: English
Original title: Valopää
Director, script, animation: Pia Alm
Music: Sara Rytövuori
Cast: Sara Rytövuori, Pia Alm
Production: Elli Vuorinen | Turku AMK, elli.vuorinen@turkuamk.fi
Distribution: Pia Alm, pia.alm@proton.me

At six o’clock in the morning the Badger’s job is to turn the sun on. But one morning things don’t go quite as they should.

Finland 2024 | 11 mins | Audio: Finnish | Subtitles: English
Original title: Pukuhuone
Director, script: Sebastian Granskog
Cinematography: Mikael Ahtikari
Editor: James Coker
Music: Oliver Wegmüller
Cast: Toivo Ståhlberg, Eemil Kontuniemi, Sampo Sarkola, Lina Schiffer, Shemeikka Mustakallio
Production: Mia Palmgren | Character House, www.characterhouse.fi, mia@characterhouse.fi
Distribution: Finnish Film Foundation, Otto Suuronen, otto.suuronen@ses.fi

It’s basketball day in P.E. class, but first it is time to change into gym clothes in the boys‘ locker room. For Calle and Emil the locker room feels like a huge, ugly monster that mocks them every time they go near it. Will the boys find the courage to face their fears and step into the locker room with the other boys?

Finland 2023 | 23 mins | Audio: Swedish | Subtitles: English, Finnish
Original title: Silkesapans skratt
Directors: Henrik Gullmets, Linda Bondestam, Annika Sandelin
Script: Annika Sandelin – from her book
Animation: Henrik Gullmets, Marga Doek, Reetta Saturo
Editor: Henrik Gullmets
Music: Anna-Stina Jungerstam
Cast: Alma Pöysti, Maria Ahlroth, Oskar Pöysti, Frank Skog, Ida Kronholm
Production: Henrik Gullmets, Mia Palmgren | Character House, www.characterhouse.fi, honken@rymdfisk.com, mia@characterhouse.fi
Distribution: Character House, www.characterhouse.fi, mia@characterhouse.fi

The Silk Monkey and the Tapir live together in a beautiful rainforest. They spend their days playing and pulling pranks on the other animals. One day the Silk Monkey asks her best friend what he would wish for if he had just one wish. The Tapir answers: ”That we would stay friends forever.” Life in the rainforest is joyful until one day the little Silk Monkey falls ill and the Tapir has to face emotions he has never felt before.

Finland, Lithuania 2024 | 11 mins | Audio: Finnish, Lithuanian | Subtitles: English
Director: Olli Ilpo Salonen
Script: Saana Räntilä, Annalisa Schmuckli
Cinematography: Hannu Käki
Editors: Pierre-Louis Umdenstock, Aleksi Raij
Cast: Emilia Heiskanen, Aatos Höglund, Pamela Tola, Kirilas Glušajevas, Annalisa Schmuckli
Production: Annalisa Schmuckli, Saana Räntilä | Empire Pictures, FEEL REEL, www.empirepictures.fi, annalisa@empirepictures.fi, saana@empirepictures.fi
Distribution: Empire Pictures / Finnish Film Foundation, www.empirepictures.fi, www.ses.fi , info@empirepictures.fi

Fifth grader Sofia loves drawing. A graffiti wall will open in the city, where anyone who wants to can paint their own artwork. Sofia needs to sketch her graffiti, but her parents are annoyed by her constant drawing. The parents restrict Sofia and her brother's activities until a surprising change in gravity occurs, and suddenly everything is turned upside down.