R&A Shorts: Night Visions Presents

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, and the second biggest festival in Helsinki focusing on fictional feature films. The festival is arranged twice a year in Helsinki, with the next edition taking place from November 11 to November 15, 2026.

Winner of the Best Short Film award at Stockholm’s Monsters of Film festival, Återsådd is a stop motion animation sci-fi with a touching mix of Dune and Phil Tippett’s Mad God set on a distant planet inhabited by mysterious dust worms.

Pleasures of Babylon is a hilarious, genre-driven take on Latino soap operas by Esa Jussila (The Pussy with an Uzi (2021), Dead End Delights (2022).

Wax is a body horror delight focusing on a student driven to extremes by her worsening ear infection. The film had its world premiere in the highly competitive Midnight Shorts section of Austin’s South by Southwest film festival.

Mixing stop motion animation and traditional animation techniques, Bodyrave is a sci-fi spectacle clearly inspired by Phil Tippett’s festival favourite Mad God.

A refreshing Asian riff on What We Do in the Shadows, The Last JiangShi features a stellar performance from Anthony Chan, a familiar face to Hong Kong cinema aficionados from the original hopping vampire epic Mr. Vampire (1985). 

Tomi “Malakias” Malkki, who amused festival audiences with his fruity stop motion animation short Grapes of War (2024), is back – with a vengeance. Honey, I’m Home is a light-hearted animated short paying tribute to the work of Finnish underground artist Kalervo Palsa.

In Necrosectos, insect invasion meets hallucinatory horror in a straightforward story that eventually escalates to the graphic level of the early works of Peter Jackson. 

Drawing its inspiration from the genuinely Swedish epadunk music, Terror Night is a splattery spectacle focusing on Josefine whose decision to install a gigantic subwoofer system in her car turns out to be fatal.

J-Horror meets folk horror in Magai-Gami, an intense tale of college students Kanon and Rena who end up in a forest rumoured to harbour “magai-gami”, or counterfeit gods.