The short film event Love & Anarchy Shorts invites filmmakers to submit their films to the 2019 National Competition. The submission is now open until May 31st. Cut to the Chase – Love & Anarchy Shorts will be held from 25th to 29th September as a part of the HIFF – Love & Anarchy Festival. You can apply for the National… Read The submission for the National Competition of the Love & Anarchy Shorts is now open! »

THE NORDIC COUNCIL FILM PRIZE 2018 has been awarded to director Benedikt Erlingsson, scriptwriter Benedikt Erlingsson & Ólafur Egill Egilsson and producers Marianne Slot, Benedikt Erlingsson and Carine Leblanc from Iceland for WOMAN AT WAR. The highly acclaimed film WOMAN AT WAR received Tuesday night (30.10.) in the Nordic Council Film Prize… Read Nordic Council Film Prize 2018 to Woman at War »

The 31st Helsinki International Film Festival – Love & Anarchy ended on Sunday with a sold-out screening of Russian director Kirill Serebrennikov’s SUMMER. Finland’s biggest film festival gathered more than 60 000 visitors.  The 31st edition of Helsinki International Film Festival culminated on Sunday with a sold-out Closing Gala… Read The 31st HIFF Ends on a High Note »

The winner of the first R&A Shorts National Competition is STAR SHAPED SCAR by Virva and Vuokko Kunttu. The first jury of HIFF’s history has awarded the winners of the R&A Shorts National Competition. The R&A LIFT award for the best short film goes to short documentary STAR SHAPED SCAR, directed by Virva and Vuokko Kunttu. – In… Read Star Shaped Scar Wins the First R&A Shorts National Competition »

Finland’s biggest film industry event, Helsinki International Film Festival’s industry sidebar Finnish Film Affair, unfolded from Tuesday Sept 25th to Thursday Sept 27th2018. A record number of almost 450 film professionals attended the 7thedition of the yearly event, with nearly hundred international sales agents, distributors, producers and… Read One-Off Incident wins the Finnish Film Affair’s Work in Progress Award »

The actress Laura Birn is interviewed in English about her career at G Livelab on Thursday at 17.00 – 18.30. The admission is free – welcome! Nordic Flair Award winner Laura Birn has a diverse career in film and television both internationally and in Finland. Now she talks about her career in this year’s NORDIC FLAIR… Read Come and Meet the Nordic Flair Winner Laura Birn »

31st Helsinki International Film Festival – Love & Anarchy treats its audience with reruns of some of this year’s festival hits. Among the reruns are action madness MANDY, black comedy SORRY TO BOTHER YOU and the gripping Danish thriller THE GUILTY. Tickets to the rerun screenings are on sale now. As an addition to the programme… Read HIFF reruns on sale now! »

For the next eleven days Helsinki turns into a cinematic heaven as the 31st edition of Helsinki International Film Festival – Love & Anarchy takes over the city’s silver screens. Five films compete for the HIFF Audience Award. The 31st edition of HIFF begins today with the sold-out Opening Gala screening of Pawel Pawlikowski’s COLD… Read Eleven days of cinematic heaven are here! »

The 31st HIFF tickets are selling like soap! And when we say soap, we mean very high-quality high-demand soap! Most sought after films of the 31st HIFF are Boots Riley’s absurd science fiction magical realism masterwork SORRY TO BOTHER YOU and Panos Cosmatos’ heavy metal nightmare MANDY starring Nicolas Cage at his flabbergasting… Read HIFF Ticket Sales Begin With A Big Bang! »

The honorary guest of this year’s edition of HIFF – Love & Anarchy is Mr. Spike Lee, a true trailblazer of American and more specifically African-American cinema and a long-time HIFF favourite! Other main guests include legendary German director Margarethe von Trotta, Australian cult filmmaker Stephan Elliott, German-French-Iranian director… Read Spike Lee is the honorary guest of Love & Anarchy! »