Love & Anarchy festival invites filmmakers to participate in this year’s national competition of R&A Shorts. Deadline for submissions is 31st May.
The submission for the national competition is open for fiction, documentary or animated films that are max. 30 minutes long. The production or co-production country of the film must be Finland. The competition line-up is selected by members of the Love & Anarchy Festival Ministry. An independent jury appointed by the festival will choose the winners. All films selected for the competition will be screened as part of the 2024 Love & Anarchy festival 19.-29.9.2024.
The main prize is the R&A Short Award which is a monetary award. The Finnish Film Foundation’s Uusi Aalto (in English New Wave) Award will be given to a new talent whose short film represents the bright tomorrow of Finnish film. The best student film is awarded for the fifth time. The award is an accreditation to Love & Anarchy festival and Finnish Film Affair industry event in 2025. In addition, all 2024 competition films will compete for the Audience Award.
The submission for the 2024 national competition is now open until May 31. Helsinki International Film Festival – Love & Anarchy takes place on 19-29 September 2024.
The submission link and competition rules can be found here.
For more information, please contact:
Veera Kotila / producer
veera@hiff.fi
Helsinki International Film Festival’s short film selection R&A Shorts showcases over 100 short films every year. Especially young emerging talents are brought to the spotlight. New European films are at the heart of the program together with the national competition which presents the year’s best Finnish shorts – this year for the 7h time. Last year, the winner of the R&A Shorts main prize was Reptilhjärnan by Elisabeth Marjanovic Cronvall.