Love & Anarchy is again looking for the best Finnish short films! Love & Anarchy festival invites filmmakers to participate in this year’s national competition of Cut to the Chase – R&A Shorts. Deadline for submissions is 31st May. Helsinki International Film Festival’s short film selection Cut to the Chase – R&A Shorts… Read Love & Anarchy is again looking for the best Finnish short films! »
Season Film Festival brightens up the Helsinki spring Season Film Festival will move from the end of March to May 5–9. Due to the COVID-19 situation, HIFF – Love & Anarchy’s sister festival Season Film Festival will be moved from its original dates in March and bring light to the silver screens of Bio Rex and Maxim from 5th to 9th of May… Read Season Film Festival brightens up the Helsinki spring »
Submit your idea for the R&A Shorts trailer 2021 – deadline 28 February! Are you an audiovisual professional or film student? Do you have a breathtaking idea for the trailer of our Love & Anarchy short film programme? Helsinki International Film Festival’s short film selection Cut to the Chase – R&A Shorts showcases… Read Submit your idea for the R&A Shorts trailer 2021 - deadline 28 February! »
This year, give the gift of Helsinki International Film Festival! Our Christmas shop is now open online! Festival passes for Season Film Festival and the new HIFF annual pass offer a stocking full of love and anarchy. Begone 2020, the New Year brings hope and will see the silver screens aglow again! The best Christmas present and inspiration for… Read This year, give the gift of Helsinki International Film Festival! »
Answer HIFF’s visitor survey! What rating would you give HIFF 2020? How did you select the films you went to see? How would you develop the festival? Answer our visitor survey and make an impact! By answering the survey, you can enter a contest. We will randomly select two lucky winners from the participants, who will receive ticket packages… Read Answer HIFF's visitor survey! »
The 33rd Love & Anarchy film festival was capped by a sold-out screening of the Australian indie hit BABYTEETH. Despite limited capacity, the biggest film festival in Finland gathered approximately 29 000 visitors to cinemas in the metropolitan area. HIFF and the National Audiovisual Institute’s audience competition winner was the Korean… Read HIFF Inspired Audiences Back to Cinemas »
Real Men won the R&A Shorts Award The HIFF short film award winners have been announced. The winner of the National Competition’s R&A Shorts Award is Iiti Yli-Harja’s animated short documentary film REAL MEN. Other awards were the Uusi Aalto award, the student award, the audience award and the jury’s honorable mention. The… Read Real Men won the R&A Shorts Award »
The Twin and The Mission Win FFA Main Awards Finland’s biggest film industry event, Helsinki International Film Festival’s Finnish Film Affair, showcased nearly 50 Finnish films and a selection of exciting Nordic debuts in its programme this 23-25 September. Organised both in the heart of Helsinki and online, the 9th edition of the event pulled… Read The Twin and The Mission Win FFA Main Awards »
The Love & Anarchy festival has announced the rest of this year’s additional screenings. Many of the festival’s biggest hits will be shown again, among them BEANPOLE and THE LAST BLACK MAN IN SAN FRANCISCO, which quickly sold out their first screenings, as well as the Finnish favourites BIG VS SMALL and SJÄLÖ – ISLAND OF SOULS… Read Love & Anarchy additional screenings out now »
HOW TO BUY A TICKET TO AN ONLINE SCREENING HIFF’s first ever Festival Scope online screenings start on Friday. Do you have questions about using the Festival Scope website? No worries, we have the answers! What’s this Festival Scope you’re talking about? Festival Scope is a website where some films from the HIFF programme can be viewed… Read HOW TO BUY A TICKET TO AN ONLINE SCREENING »