A bourgeois lady takes on a dangerous mission and confronts a different social reality in this suspenseful drama set in Chile in the violent year of 1976.

Inspirational and heartbreaking stories of connecting, belonging and identity. Discover new African shorts from around the continent! The screening was curated in collaboration with Think Africa and Ubuntu Film Club.

In the thrilling documentary, law students from all over Africa face each other in the continent's biggest mock trial competition.

Ainbo is the story of a girl who was born and grew up in the deepest jungle of the Amazon in the village of Colonia. One day she discovers that her homeland is being threatened.

Depicting a Catalan family's last summer in their rural peach orchard, Carla Simón’s Berlinale winner is a skilful and subtle work full of meaning.

What would it feel like to hear at 7 years old that you are losing your sight? The documentary tells a touching mother-son story and gives a voice to a minority whose stories we hear and see far too rarely.

A charming selection of animated short films for little film lovers. The screening is part of the School Kino programme for local kindergarten and school groups.

Animatricks' award-winning animated shorts from 2022 showcase a wide variety of animation and prove how expressive animation at its best can be.

Anni Puolakka’s works combine visual and performing arts with the moving image. Their short films imagine futile futures, gently question and blur the boundaries between human bodies and other species, and slyly stretch what is commonly seen as appropriate.

A tense, eerie period film about the daughter of a big family whose life changes overnight, when her mother dies.

Valikoima viime vuoden brittiläisen lyhytelokuvan parhaimmistoa, jotka olivat Bafta-ehdokkaina lyhytelokuvakategorioissa.

In Martin McDonagh’s devilishly skilled hands, the friendship breakup between grumpy Irish men on a small island at the start of the 20th century becomes a film that is by turns disturbing and laugh-out-loud funny.

A French couple living in the Spanish countryside ends up in an increasingly tense confrontation with their neighbours in this slow-burn thriller.

Teenage boys test the limits of violence and companionship in Guðmundur Arnar Guðmundsson's drama, in which friendship is looked for with fists.

The newest film from Teemu Nikki, the director known for his wild ideas, is a romantic thriller with a side of black humour that takes us into the world of blind wheelchair user Jaakko.

Antonio, a Korean American soon to be father and a husband is trying to support his family while ICE is trying to deport him from the States.

Director-screenwriter Maryam Touzani's sophisticated, intimate, and observant film centers on love in all its forms.

In Claire Denis' award-winning new film, Juliette Binoche and Vincent Lindon shine as a couple whose life is complicated by a job offer from an unlikely party.

The American documentary analyses how women have been sexualised in movies throughout film history.

Two baby salesmen, a mother who has abandoned her child, and a runaway orphan form a makeshift family in the film starring Cannes' Best Actor winner Song Kang-ho.

Emin Alper's newest is a political thriller that boldly comments on the contemporary issues of Turkish politics.

A prisoner of war seeks compassion and an abortion in the nuanced Ukrainian drama that avoids heroism and nationalism.

This gorgeous, feminist coming-of-age western set in the American Far West charts the origins of Calamity Jane.

Florida’s most dedicated dance team for women over 60 shakes up the outdated image of “the little old lady,” and calls for everyone to dance their hearts out, while they still can.

Morocco's Oscar submission is a powerful and inspiring movie about art's ability to change the world.

Kaylee is a young, poor Native American, a recovering addict and boxer who tries to find out what happened to her baby sister, believed to have ended up in the hands of sex traffickers.

In the naturalistic and sensitive mafia film, teenager Chiara's family is torn apart as her father's mob connections are revealed.

40-year-old, repressed Clara experiences a sexual and spiritual awakening in this magical realist coming-of-age story set in Costa Rica.

13-year-old Sasha refuses to be like her suicidal mom, so she comes up with a list with four points. Last on the list is to be a comedy queen – just to make her dad laugh again.

Long live New Flesh! With the film starring Viggo Mortensen and Léa Seydoux, David Cronenberg speeds up to the whirlpools of inner organs and to the darkest secrets of forward-hopping evolution.

In Park Chan-wook's romantic thriller, a murder investigation leads to the labyrinths of the mind. The more we find out, the more mysterious everything seems.

An action-packed documentary of life under occupation, smuggling, and desert car chases. Hold on to your hat!

A 1950s housewife (Florence Pugh) living with her husband (Harry Styles) in a utopian experimental community begins to worry that his glamorous company may be hiding disturbing secrets.

In a nightmarishly Kafkaesque post-war Europe, middle-aged Albert is instructed to take care of a young girl with teeth made of ice.

After the internationally-acclaimed Howl’s Moving Castle, Studio Ghibli returns with another adaptation of classic Diana Wynne Jones children’s novel, directed by Goro Miyazaki.

Eden is a coming-of-age film about a Protestant Confirmation camp on a summer’s week, set in the archipelago of Helsinki.

An unusual romantic comedy about a romance between a 17-year-old boy and a 60-year-old woman pays witty homage to the films of the French New Wave.

For young people, the summer is filled with raves, love, and longing to get far away from their tiny village. But their life is controlled by water, which makes the villagers believe in a myth of the river that falls in love with young women.

Kiro Russo's film is a visual poem, which depicts both chronicles of our times and more intimate personal stories in the vibrant and chaotic capital of Bolivia, La Paz.

In Mark Jenkin's folk horror film, time and memory blend with hallucinations and lichen.

Short Eurotrips! Discoveries from all over the continent, delicate stories and hope arising from surprising places. The screening opens with the awarded short film The North Pole, which has enjoyed great success in film festivals all over the world.

An awkward re-encounter with an old classmate from high school takes Jeanne to new adventures in this colourful romantic comedy shot under the Lisbon sun.

Divided into three parts, the film depicts the marks left by war on a single Jewish family over three generations.

The first lesbian film from Finland is loosely based on the life of theatre director and socialite Vivica Bandler.

The screening's festival favourites handle heavy subjects! The screening is part of the EFA Shorts short film tour, which brings the best short films to theatres around Europe.

Aino Suni is a director and screenwriter whose debut fictional feature Heartbeast premieres in 2022. Suni's previous work includes both documentaries and fiction as well as music videos. The screening will dive into her work in the short film format.

Tensions derail a holiday with friends in Anna Kazejak’s well-observed comedy drama set on the beautiful island of Bornholm.

A Gen Z queer manifesto from the streets of New York, drama and gossip in the bathroom of a Stockholm club, friendships and jealousy between boys in Denmark The screening tells stories about a new generation from all over the world.

A friend group spends a weekend together and ends up dancing, singing, and bringing up all the most painful things from their past in Jenni Toivoniemi's lived-in and cuttingly funny debut feature.

A friend group spends a weekend together and ends up dancing, singing, and bringing up all the most painful things from their past in Jenni Toivoniemi's lived-in and cuttingly funny debut feature.

The story from the end 19th century has three main characters: a young idealistic priest, a grumpy guide and the country of Iceland itself.

Heartbreaking coming-of-age stories from childhood to adulthood! In these films, pain and hardship do not end with adolescence, and life keeps challenging until the end.

Anne wants an abortion and her future back in a society where abortion is illegal. The film is set in 1963, but the story is yet again topical.

In the psychological drama, shy aspiring rapper Elina falls for enchanting ballet dancer Sofia. The further they get to know each other, the more toxic their relationship becomes.

Selma Vilhunen's documentary depicts the phenomenon by following hobbyhorse afficionados and creates an ode to the powers of imagination and community spirit.

In the meditative journey based on real events, speleologists' dive into the core of the Earth cosmically parallels a mystical shepherd's life.

Based on a true story, Ali Abbasi's Iran-set film is a tough depiction of a serial killer and of a determined reporter's attempts to catch him.

Waiting for artificial intelligence to wake up! This screening delves softly, cruelly and casually into the relationship between machines, technology and human beings. 

The screening exploring the relationship between humanity and nature takes us through Brazil to the countryside of Portugal, ending up in Finnish flower fields with leading insect enthusiasts.

The screening presenting new Portuguese shorts includes Cannes Film Festival's Leitz Cine Discovery Prize winner Ice Merchants and festival favourite Nha Sunhu, which innovatively blends fiction with documentary.

The exciting rock documentary takes a look at the half a century-spanning career of the progressive rock band King Crimson.

The thrilling Danish climate change documentary follows the work of three leading scientists in Greenland.

Two outsiders, a deformed dancer and a blind biwa player wander in 14th century Japan, giving emotionally strong performances that raise them to stardom.

In the hands of Romanian director and animator Anca Damian, the tale of Robinson Crusoe becomes a cutting, acidic animated musical about the humanitarian crisis in the Mediterranean.

Oliver Stone digs through conspiracy theories concerning the JFK assassination, with the help of new archival materials and findings of amateur sleuths. 

A love triangle between a married Pakistani couple and a transgender woman shows the damaging consequences of the patriarchal family system.

Emmanuèle has to confront painful moral questions and difficult family relations when her father wants her to help him to die.

The groundbreaking and hopeful drama is set in Namibia, a country where gay relationships are still a crime. There, two lives intersect: George’s and Simeon’s.

Klondike depicts the Russian invasion into Eastern Ukraine in 2014. The painfully topical drama sees the conflict through the eyes of a young couple.

Like Robert Altman in Short Cuts, Finnish director Saara Cantell handles heavy themes like fear and grief and makes an organic, superbly airy film out of them.

The film following a teacher moving to a small Bhutanese mountain village enchants and captures a harmonic way of life that is in danger of disappearing.

A poetic scifi debut about invisible people who can only be seen through a camera.

Eveliina is worried about the state of her parents’ marriage and decides to keep them together, by any means necessary.

Noomi Rapace stuns in her leading role in the film, which offers an original blend of dark psychological drama, black humour, and folklore.

The compelling documentary follows the first ever attempt to produce the 29-hour opera Licht, possibly the most ambitious work in musical theatre history.

In the impressive film, complicated family conflicts are solved on a line painted around the house, after the daughter receives a restraining order against her mother.

The documentary shines light on who the queer icon and American author known for her psychological thrillers Patricia Highsmith really was.

Céline Sciamma's newest is a timeless and unforgettable cinematic gem about grief and the magic of childhood.

The documentary, shot in Mariupol, Ukraine this spring, depicts the tediousness and bleakness of war.

This tenderly empathetic drama about the Brazilian working classes by director Gabriel Martins foregrounds the importance of family.

When the parents of a school shooter meet the parents of a victim, drama arises. In the hands of Fran Kranz, the drama evolves into a gem, a brilliantly acted, deeply touching story.

Connected by blood and not much else, two sisters and a teenage daughter embark on a delightfully chaotic road trip through Europe.

In the harrowing film based on a true story, Spanish lifeguards travel to Lesbos island to help refugees.

Pirjo Honkasalo’s masterful Chechnya-themed documentary gives centre stage to children’s experience in the midst of cruelties.

In the small town of Karmack, struck by depression, someone has to deliver the news, all of which are absurdly bad.

Lina Wertmüller's tale follows its antihero's attempts to do everything that he can in order to survive in Second World War Italy.

A young novice leaves the convent in haste. The viewer slowly realizes the reason for her trip, and where it ends – soon, there is a brutal crime on the local policeman’s desk.

The heartwarming fairytale about friendship between two disadvantaged women of different generations breaks prejudices with its humanism.

A terminal illness changes a married couple's (Vicky Krieps and Gaspard Ulliel in brilliant form) life in this touching Norway-set French drama.

The high-pitched family drama by the sun and the turquoise Mediterranean sea is Croatian-American Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović's fascinating debut film. Also contains a moray fish.

As Moomintroll gets wasp-stung and must lie in bed, Moominpappa wants to cheer him up by telling about his own adventurous youth.

In the light and encouraging film, Raphi (Raphaëlle Pérez), a woman at the beginning of her transition, tries to find herself in Barcelona.

The deeply humane adult animation offers a fascinating window into the near history of Afghanistan.

Hayao Miyazaki's third feature-length film is the enchanting cornerstone and possibly the most valued treasure among Studio Ghibli's output.

Made with a refreshingly authentic touch, the film offers an immersive look at the lives of young Latvians, coloured by drug experiments and with a techno beat on the background.

In the Afrofuturist musical, cobalt mine worker Matalusa and intersex hacker Neptune find each other in a rebel community – and are fated to work together to fight injustice.

Embark on a meditative trip around the world with surprising Finnish short films. This rousing union of film and art won't let the viewer off the hook easily.

The screening is the launching event for AV-arkki and Cinema Orion’s new series of screenings dedicated to experimental cinema. The theme for the opening screening is labour, both emotional and physical, reproductive and dustbusting.

The highly praised French crime movie depicts a long and tough murder investigation of 21-years old Clara that turns into police investigator’s obsession.

Night Visions International Film Festival is the biggest film festival in Scandinavia focusing on – but not limited to – fantasy, horror, science fiction and action cinema. This screening will blow your socks off!

Justin Kurzel's film is based on a shocking true story and features a haunting performance by Caleb Landry Jones.

Filmmakers from the north present new stories about love, identity and communitites. The screening includes Hollywood by Finnish filmmaker Tia Kouvo who is currently working on her first feature.

A middle-aged man returns to his native city of Naples, but nostalgia for the past proves to be dangerous.

Noura is waiting for a divorce. Her husband is sitting in jail, but her future with a new man seems bright. Then suddenly, the husband walks free.

Hong Sang-soo's Berlin-awarded new film about an author's creative block is a Rohmer-esque collection of incidental meetings.

A Ugandan man lights up his love for cinema and Chuck Norris in a DIY studio and the rest is action movie history.

These stories from the liminal spaces between dreams, awareness and reality stay with you for a long time. The screening includes two Clermont-Ferrand International Film Festival award winners, the chilling Irish-British Calving and the Brazil-set Sideral, which gives an absurd edge to an everyday family story.

In her award-winning documentary, Kiti Luostarinen depicts the formation of family and identity through Devi, a girl adopted from India to Finland.

The powerful work mixes different genres and handles themes from self-sacrifice to family bonds.

Jacques Audiard's newest is an ode to the wandering love lives of Millenials among the concrete blocks of Paris' 13th district, bathed in black and white images.

The sweetly nostalgic coming-of-age story set in Paris in the 1980s is as gentle, sensitive, and comforting as the voice of its star Charlotte Gainsbourg.

In François Ozon's Fassbinder remake, the genre is still claustrophobic chamber drama, but Petra has become Peter, much reminiscent of Fassbinder himself.

A harrowing drama about the value of human life in a near future, in which the Japanese government starts offering voluntary euthanasia to those over 75.

Quiet and shy Nora starts primary school and quickly understands the many difficulties she must face in order to survive in the school’s playground.

Filmed over five years, the documentary follows the rise and fall of the Finnish National Opera’s biggest ever production, Richard Wagner’s Ring, through the pandemic.

Power and powerlessness, responsibility and irresponsibility by way of documentary, fiction and animation. The screening includes Eliane Esther Bots' documentary In Flow Of Words, which had its world premiere in Locarno.

The documentary follows poet-activist Laura Eklund Nhaga’s personal and political journey towards the core of activism.

A summery apple orchard creates the background for the BDSM sessions of the five main characters and their meditations on the meaning of being kinky.

The Irish-language hit beautifully depicts a gentle story about the importance of care and affection in the life of a child in the 1980s countryside.

The winners of the 2022 National Competition will be awarded and presented in the screening.

Staging Silence (3) is the third and final installment in a series of autonomous art films, all realised according to the same principles. The screening is orgarnised together with the Amos Rex museum.

Even hearing the name of Ridley Scott's classic sends chills down your spine. HIFF and HDW offer a chance to experience the film in an elevator, where no one can hear you scream!

Věra Chytilová's feminist satire is one of the masterpieces of the Czechoslovak New Wave, centred on flowers, butterflies, and the free laughter of girls.

The ever-enchanting Finnish fairytale gem is presented in a dress-along screening for young moviegoers in collaboration with Helsinki Design Week.

A hypnotic documentary about underground spaces below a city, in which the cinematography, the music and the sound design transport to another world.

The series of short films explores the Self and its relationship to society, politics, nature and Love in a time of apocalypse. This collection represents intersectional cultures in Finland without defining them; each film is a story, a philosophy and a dream.

Action veterans Donnie Yen and Benny Chan have made an explosive old school Hong Kong action thriller, that will delight even the most demanding fans of the genre.

Films about the relationship between offspring and parents from different parts of the world. Who ends up raising who?

The main character of the Spanish comedy tries to find her place and finds it in the movies, which is where first-time director Andrea Bagney found her inspiration as well.

Indie director Sean Baker has made another colourful and intriguing portrait of life in the margins by depicting a porn star's return back to his hometown.

A powerful documentary about the massive pro-democracy protests that escalated in Hong Kong in 2019.

Richie Bravo's fame faded a long time ago, but his romantic ballads still echo in the empty hotels of Rimini in Ulrich Seidl's film, which depicts the disarming tragicomedy of group travel.

When Rauha Rapper finds a drawing Ricky has made, she is certain that Ricky is Vincent Van Gogh reborn. This starts an exciting chain of events, and in the end, the janitor of an Art Museum, a keen amateur detective, helps Ricky and Nelly to solve the mystery.

The genre-crossing debut feature by Lola Quivoron is a raggedly beautiful scream of courage, surprising connections, and love for motorcycles.

Disarmingly honest and contemplative, the documentary follows young Parisians who dream of careers in dance.

Savonlinna International Nature Film Festival is an interdisciplinary four-day art event organized every year on the lakeside of Saimaa. The programme of the festival explores the overlapping borders of environmental issues and art.

In the drug-fuelled life of skateboarder Ali Boulala, broken bones feel like tiny scratches compared to the mental scars. One of the most impressive skate documentaries in recent years.

In the lively and playful film, a detective duo (Sam Rockwell and Saoirse Ronan) runs into a web of crimes in the theatrical world of 1950s London.

In the lively and playful film, a detective duo (Sam Rockwell and Saoirse Ronan) runs into a web of crimes in the theatrical world of 1950s London.

The Silver Lion winning film takes the viewer on a trip towards the oozing heart of identity, into a hypnotic threesome of gender, sex and sexuality.

The Silver Lion winning film takes the viewer on a trip towards the oozing heart of identity, into a hypnotic threesome of gender, sex and sexuality.

New European short documentaries with themes that are both light and achingly topical.

In Kristoffer Borgli’s comedy, the other half of a narcissistic couple takes poisonous medicine in search of attention and the spotlight.

Set against the backdrop of political unrest in Lebanon, Sirens is an intimate coming-of age story about the co-founders of Middle East’s first all-female metal band, Slave to Sirens.

In his sensitive documentary, Danish Simon Lereng Wilmont depicts the life of Eastern Ukrainian children taken into custody.

A magical trekking drama about a mother who is seeking salvation for her child's soul.

A gem of a film, shot with powdery perfection, Joanna Hogg’s multilayered memoir of self discovery, artistic dreams, class privilege and the pains of first love solidifies her place at the forefront of new British cinema.

The masterful Joanna Hogg takes us back into the spellbinding world of The Souvenir with a story both intimate and epic, a depiction about grief, the birth of a director and the love of film.

Edgar Wright has loaded his Sparks documentary full of joy, excitement, song and wonder.

Diving into the world of Kyiv high school students, the Berlinale Generation winner will impress everyone who remembers what it's like to be young.

Director Mark Cousins has no time to waste. Tomorrow his left eye will be operated on. It might be his last day to make a documentary on looking.

An African ex-footballer and four Vietnamese women delve into a ritualistic co-habitance in an old, mysterious Saigon house, in Lê Bảo's intriguing debut feature.

Hip hop superstar Machine Gun Kelly gives the strongest performance of his career as a Kurt Cobain lookalike who has lost his joy in life.

A beautiful, touching and enraging documentary about an indigenous group fighting for the survival of the rainforest. 

In Finnish cinema's very own Rebel without a Cause, two people meet in a youth home and frantically try to find paradise, where they could live without norms and coercion.

The fate of a small Polish town and its people is revealed, when amateur footage from 1938 is investigated and survivors discovered.

Three young protagonists drift through São Paulo, dominated by a pandemic and capitalism, in this delightfully queer Teddy-winning film.

After punk, music and fashion returned to the romantic, which defined all of the 80s. The documentary tells the origin story of the British subculture.

In the Estonian film, Kiik wants to cut down a tree. To do it, he needs to travel 400 kilometres and overcome all kinds of imaginative obstacles.

The Swedish master director's Golden Palm-winning film comments on masculinity, Marxist social philosophy and the modelling world as it takes us to a cruise ship of the rich.

According to Tibetan Buddhist tradition, a person trained in meditation can remain in an in-between state, where the mind remains conscious after death – but what is the science behind the phenomenon?

Chinese master Zhang Yimou famously got censored with this Cultural Revolution era story that grows into a tribute to the power of cinema.

A visually stunning sci-fi punk film where fungus and furry and moist plants developed in biosynthesis save the world.

Let's go for a visit! This screening includes the Lithuanian Cherries, selected for the Directors' Fortnight series at the Cannes Film Festival, and the absurd, comedic manifesto Los Angeles, France by French-Finnish writer-director Nicole Genevese.

Anna Eriksson's groundbreaking film drifts from female splatter to bodily performance art.

The warm-hearted, Cannes-awarded coming-of-age tale follows two Lakota youths aiming for a better life in the Pine Ridge Reservation.

A fierce action film about the Agojie, a group of female warriors who skilfully and passionately protected the African kingdom of Dahomey in the 19th century.

In Mikko Myllylahti's absurd black comedy, a woodcutter faces hardship but doesn't lose hope in the middle of the forest.

An outsider director picks four teenage hooligans to star in his film, much to the chagrin of the inhabitants of the French suburb.

In the highly acclaimed depiction of city life, no one knows what they want or why they want it.

First love, first kiss, first heartbreak, the first time... Cupid's arrows strike, nevermind the age or time!