National competition

Director: Iiti Yli-Harja
Technique: Stop-motion
Duration: 14 min 53 sec
Year: 2023

For 18-year-old Finnish–Kosovan Fatu, a simple visit to the grocery store feels as nerve-racking as a lunar expedition: for the first time in his life, he’s wearing makeup in public. Luckily his best friend Rai, a young woman on the [more…]

Director: Malgorzata Nowicka
Technique: 3D
Duration: 2 min 26 sec
Year: 2023

The deformed perception of the body morphs into a deformed perception of the mind, a mental dysmorphia – an expression of the main character’s self warping and deforming in the presence of others.

Director: Tomi Knuutila
Technique: Mixed media
Duration: 3 min 53 sec
Year: 2023

The abstrcat animation transforms to different art forms, to something performative, to something which is not recognizable. Life moves forward as it always does, yet with a sense of strangeness.

Director: Katariina Haukka
Technique: Stop-motion
Duration: 4 min 47 sec
Year: 2022

Valkoinen Paperi karkaa taiteilija Marjalta. Keinoja kaihtamatta Marja yrittää kesyttää Paperin, mutta vain ymmärrys voi tuoda esille Paperin todellisen olemuksen

Directors: Virve Ranta & Iro Koivusalo
Technique: 2D drawn animation, stop-motion
Duration: 4 min 56 sec
Year: 2023

Rain surprise a lost cat, Tiltu who is afraid of water. While waiting the rain to stop, a mystical light appearce. Is Tiltu capable to face their fear? 

Director: Malakias
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration: 4 min 24 sec
Year: 2023

Volcanos does not have moss.

Director: Reeta Annala
Technique: 3D
Duration: 5 min 30 sec
Year: 2022

During the pandemic, a teddy bear is put to the window to cheer up others. As time goes by the loneliness takes the teddy bear by surprise.

Director: Sanna Taikina
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration: 3 min 3 sec
Year: 2023
School: Turku Art’s Academy

Like in a dream, rainbow withses, stuffed animals and cage bird do magic together, so once again it would be possible to put one’s foot in one’s mouth.

Directors: Krasimir Jovanovic Hyvärinen & Santeri Mortti Valtanen
Technique: Stop-motion, live-action
Duration: 1 min 35 sec
Year: 2022

No. 6 is a sculpture in a gallery. An observer doesn’t understand the cryptic artwork and decides to bring depth to it.

Director: Jimi Kujanpää
Technique: 3D
Duration: 7 min 30 sec
Year: 2022

Three robot companions descend down an abandoned mine, working together as they search for invaluable fuel that keeps their kind alive.

Director: David Graham
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration: 3 min 7 sec
Year: 2023

Recently laid-off from work, Derek lands a job interview for a company that is close to his heart. However, with an overactive imagination, he struggles to control his wandering mind during the formal conversation.

Director: Mika Koskinen
Technique: Mixed media
Duration: 8 min 15 sec
Year: 2022

And the greatest of these is love. Director’s grandparents letters and grandmother’s diaries have a dialogue throughout centuries. A bed which has been taken away rises as a symbol for the lost.

Director: Heta Okkonen
Technique: 2D drawn animation
Duration: 8 min
Year: 2023

Two worlds collide in gravity altering love. The darkness of the mind enters.