Have you ever thought about what the stars tell about you and your taste in cinema? What if you got film recommendations directly from our horoscope experts? You’re in luck, for this year we made you recommendations of Helsinki International Film Festival 2025 programme based on your horoscope. This list includes queer teenage romance, Korean folk horror, musical anarchy and adrenaline fueled action. See your sign and recommendation below.
Aries: The Old Woman with the Knife (2025)
Aries loves action, physical activity and a fast pace. Even old age doesn’t stop aries’ from achieving their goals. In Min Kyu-Dong’s The Old Woman with the Knife (2025) an aging assassin teams up with an unruly apprentice. A determined and strong female lead, high stakes and fast paced action will capture aries’ attention.
Taurus: The End (2024)
Taurus’ love comfort and pleasure, while often being stubborn and ignoring the opinions of others. Full of stubborn pleasures, Joshua Oppenheimer‘s first fiction film The End (2024) gives Taurus an underground musical to get lost in. This family sustains its pleasurable routines without caring too much about the outside world. Nevertheless, the film challenges a taurus with the idea that not all change is bad and sometimes an adventure is worth it.
Gemini: Block Pass (2025)
Geminis are multitalented, talkative, ambivalent and impulsive firecrackers. The same could be said about the French motocrossing teens in Block Pass (2025), a joyful mix of youthful exuberance and growing pains in which queer themes go hand in hand with sports culture. Geminis are full of surprises, and the same goes for this film.
Cancer: The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo (2025)
Cancers are sensitive, protective, family oriented and empathetic. Emotionally cancers swing up and down, going quickly from joyful to sad. Therefore cancer might like a film about the rupture of a community, with both joyful and melancholic undertones. Diego Céspedes’ debut feature The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo (2025) puts the viewer into the shoes of the 12-year-old Lidia who lives with a queer family in Chile. This film offers cancer an emotional rollercoaster and asks fundamental questions, such as who do we love and why?
Leo: The Little Sister (2025)
Do you consider yourself brave? Fearless? You might be a leo. Leos like other people face challenges and prejudice, but their confidence and perseverance keep them going. A leo might find a soul sister in Fatima, the main character in Hafsia Herzi’s The Little Sister (2025). Fatima has to forge her own path as a queer woman in an islamic environment. Following her intuition, she defies her surroundings in order to be herself. This serves as a reminder for leos to make their own path.
Virgo: Gaucho Gaucho (2025)
Virgo might enjoy fact over fiction. Being well organised and prone to emotional overheating, a virgo might not enjoy the most anxiety inducing or scary films. Perhaps the plateaus of Argentina, hypnotic guitar music and depictions of horsemen’s routines might keep a virgo’s brain from overheating? Michael Dweck’s and Gregory Kershaw’s new documentary Gaucho Gaucho (2025) introduces viewers to a simple way of life, often thought to be extinct. The detailed lives of argentinian horsetamers might satisfy an orderly virgo, but the hypnotic atmosphere will also deliver them from to-do-lists all the way to rugged nature’s soothing embrace.
Libra: R&A Shorts: Do the Right Thing (2024)
Libra probably can’t decide which film to see. One film has an intriguing story, another one looks visually stunning but then again there’s that one film with the really hot actor. Luckily, R&A Shorts: Do the Right Thing is perfect for indecisive Libras since there’s multiple stories in one screening. This short film series explores the struggle of making choices and contemplates moral dilemmas. Known as a champion of justice, Libra will leave the theatre with a lot to (over)think about.
Scorpio: Exhuma (2024):
If anyone has dreamt of a film about South Korean exorcists relocating corpses and a mysterious illness haunting the living, it’s Scorpio. Exhuma is straight from Scorpio’s dreams: a chilling and mystical horror film that perfectly matches the sign’s intense energy. To top it off, Exhuma is part of the festival’s Midnight Mayhem series. And honestly, is there any phrase that describes Scorpio better than that?
Sagittarius: Rains Over Babel (2025)
Insanely hot characters, action-packed adventure vibes and a fiery night at the club – what more could a feisty Sagittarius possibly want from a film? Rains Over Babel delivers a dynamic, sexy and visually captivating take on Dante’s Inferno that’s practically made for a thrill-seeking Sagittarius.
Capricorn: The Last Paradise on Earth (2025)
Ambitious Capricorn is all about moving forward and achieving great things. The Last Paradise on Earth taps into Capricorn’s deepest fear: getting stuck. The main character’s life is on repeat and the withering village has no “so-called” future. For a Capricorn that thrives on productivity, maybe it’s time to ask what happens if you stop for a moment?
Aquarius: Je tu il elle (1974)
Intuitive Aquarius craves meaning and doesn’t want to be like everyone else. That’s why they should check out Chantal Akerman’s experimental debut film Je tu il elle. The film breaks all the rules of conventional storytelling and it’s filled with long, lingering shots that give Aquarius plenty of time to dive deep into their own unique and unconventional thoughts.
Pisces: Memoir of a Snail (2024)
Last but not least we have the dreamy and a little bit melancholic Pisces. Deeply sensitive and emotionally in tune, Pisces carries the weight of all the other signs and magically senses the emotions of others. Memoir of a Snail tackles difficult themes with empathy and relatability, just like Pisces does.