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19.7.2021

Compartment No. 6 Wins Grand Prix at Cannes

B-Plan Distribution Press Release:   Compartment No. 6 Wins Grand Prix at Cannes   After...
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13.7.2021

Finnish Film Foundation joins the New Dawn fund promoting inclusion and equality

The fund was launched yesterday in Cannes. The new international fund aims to create a...
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13.7.2021

Sihja, the Rebel Fairy and Any Day Now compete in Giffoni

The Italian festival focusing on films for children and the youth takes place July 21–31,...
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8.7.2021

How to Kill a Cloud selected to Locarno’s critics’ week

The Swiss festival takes place August 4-14, 2021. How to Kill a Cloud, a documentary...
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7.7.2021

Facts & Figures 2020 released

The safety measures put in place because of the coronavirus pandemic made 2020 a very...
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7.7.2021

New support for international distribution of Finnish films

Finnish Film Foundation is piloting a new support scheme that is aimed at helping international...
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24.6.2021

Upcoming changes in the Finnish Film Foundation’s application system log in procedure

The Finnish Film Foundation’s new support application system will be launched in September 2021. In...
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18.6.2021

Invisible Demons by Rahul Jain selected to Cannes

The documentary film, which is produced by Iikka Vehkalahti for Toinen katse, is in the...
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17.6.2021

Nimby, Night of the Living Dicks, Expectancy and Don’t Answer in BIFAN

Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival will take place July 8–18 in South Korea. Nimby, directed...
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16.6.2021

Finnish Film Foundation hands out 4,5 million euros of production support in June

New films from Selma Vilhunen, JP Valkeapää, Jalmari Helander and Tonislav Hristov are in the works....
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7.6.2021

The Gravedigger’s Wife, by Khadar Ayderus Ahmed, selected to Semaine de la Critique

The drama film produced by Bufo was shot in Djibouti, East Africa. Image: Arttu Peltomaa...
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3.6.2021

Compartment no. 6 by Juho Kuosmanen selected to Competition in Cannes

The Finnish minority co-production The Innocents is in Un Certain Regard. Image: Sami Kuokkanen /...
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2.6.2021

New visual identity for Finnish Film Foundation – new logo and animated logo available now

The visual identity was designed by Keskiö Design. For the visual identity, we gathered handwritten...
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1.6.2021

The Landing and Reconstruction to premiere in Grimstad

The Norwegian short film festival takes place online and in cinemas starting June 9, 2021....
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28.5.2021

Survey from the International Department: help us develop our activities!

The International Department at the Finnish Film Foundation promotes the visibility and impact of the...
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26.5.2021

Young Nordic Producers Club in Hamburg October 6–9, 2021

Do you work as a young producer in an established company, or have you established...
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24.5.2021

Packaging sales and marketing materials: a webinar and consultations

Audiovisual Producers Finland APFI and the Finnish Film Foundation organize a webinar on packaging sales...
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21.5.2021

Any Day Now, Laughing Matters and Aalto selected to Molodist

The 50th anniversary of the Ukrainian Molodist Kyiv International Film Festival will take place May...
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19.5.2021

Nothing about us without us

In our Diversity in the Film Industry series, Mira Eskelinen writes about trans representation on...
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19.5.2021

The Dinosaur, The Earth Is a Sinful Song and Fucking with Nobody to Rotterdam’s June edition

International Film Festival Rotterdam divided its 50th anniversary festivities to an online edition in early...
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12.5.2021

”Everyone is worth a role” – advancing diversity in casting

Jantsu Puumalainen, from Helsinki Casting, Mikko Mäkelä, director of A Moment in the Reeds, and...
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10.5.2021

School of Hope awarded at Hot Docs

School of Hope, directed by Mohamed El Aboudi received the Special Jury Prize in the...
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5.5.2021

We see you King – moving from shame towards new kinds of stories

According to statistics, sexual and gender minorities have a minimal role in Finnish films and...
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26.4.2021

A People’s Radio in Oberhausen’s international competition

The German festival will be organized online on May 1–10, 2021. A People’s Radio –...
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23.4.2021

The Bouncer by Aleksi Salmenperä selected to Tribeca

Tribeca Festival is organized 9–20 June, 2021, in hybrid form in New York. The Bouncer,...
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22.4.2021

Representation matters – this is how you can increase the diversity of your work community

THL’s Research Manager Shadia Rask shares some tools for promoting diversity and inclusion in the...
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19.4.2021

Those who came before us – can we remember through films?

On April 26, in early morning Finnish time, the 93rd Academy Awards are handed out....
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16.4.2021

The Last Matador, Red Ring and Lost Boys in Krakow

The 61st Krakow Film Festival will take place May 30 – June 6, 2021. The...
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12.4.2021

International Outlooks: Shorts – Crisis or opportunity in the face of the pandemic?

Laurence Boyce, film journalist and Head of Programing at PÖFF Shorts (part of the Tallinn...
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9.4.2021

Diversity in the film industry: The whiteness of Finns is not neutral, natural or even true

In our new series, different writers take a look at diversity and equality in the...
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