National competition

Director: Heta Okkonen
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration: 3 min 4 sec
Year: 2020

Of memory and longing.

Director: Juho Maurinen
Technique: 2D Drawn animation
Duration: 4 min 13 sec
Year: 2019

Five contestants are racing through desert, only one will win the price: milk from a god’s breast. Dangerous speed, gruesome deaths, otherworldly creatures: everything is possible.

Director: Malakias
Technique: Mixed media
Duration: 5 min
Year: 2020

Mermaid´s in a jar, and unless I loosen the top, she’s not coming out to kill me.

Directors: Aro Merta, Jutta Nummela, Ronja Hellström, Vilhemiina Saine, Ville Tanttu
Technique: Stop-motion
Duration: 3 min 30 sec
Year: 2019

A mad scientist is struggling to fulfill his customer’s wishes to create a perfect pet.

Director: Tatu Pohjavirta
Technique: Stop-motion
Duration: 13 min
Year: 2020

A teriffic barbecuepary where sacred things are thrown in to the flames.

Director: Katariina Lillqvist
Technique: Stop-motion
Duration: 7 min 30 sec
Year: 2021

Kun Katalonian viimeinen härkätaisteluareena muutetaan ostoskeskukseksi, joutuu vanha matadori hankkimaan elantonsa Barcelonan hämärien yökerhojen perukoilta. Eräänä iltana Venäjän presidentti eksyy samaan baariin matadorin kanssa ja haluaa osansa corridon taikamaailmasta ennenkuin se katoaa iäksi

Director: Minna Eriksson
Technique: 3D
Duration: 7 min 25 sec
Year: 2020

In a Post-apokalyptic world a small construction robot is wondering with a dying battery. A small toy robot follows him.

Director: Elli Maanpää
Technique: Mixed media
Duration: 2 min 23 sec
Year: 2020

Pihka is discovering the beauty of northern nature and winter. A snow-covered forest might be a very exotic sight in the near future. Pihka Is My Name is a band fronted by an animation character called Pihka.

Director: Robert Lönnqvist
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration: 19 min
Year: 2020

Boner, a spiritless millennial, spends his gloomy life on his computer doing absolutely nothing. One day everything changes, when Boner’s single mother never comes back from the grocery store and Boner starves to death on his keyboard.

Directors: Iiris Korjus and Katariina Haukka
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration: 3 min 27 sec
Year: 2021

A faceless girl falls down a bathtub and ends up in bizarre world where she has to come to terms with who she is.

Director: David Graham
Technique: 2D draw nanimation
Duration: 2 min
Year: 2020

The short-film highlights topical issues, such as David Blaine’s Ascension and the Black Lives Matter movement, through the field glasses of a curious stranger observing the world around him.

Director: Ylwa-Lii Wahlström
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration: 3 min
Year: 2019

Muodonmuuttaja saapuu rannikkokaupunkiin etsimään täydellistä rakkautta.

Director: Soetkin Verstegen
Technique: Stop-motion
Duration: 5 min
Year: 2019

Identical figures perform the hopeless task of preserving blocks of ice. The repetitive movements reanimate the animals captured inside.