The Feeder

Pregnant and unsure about her future, Fran visits her boyfriend Henrik at his remote family cabin in Finland. When a group of violent strangers arrive, Fran fears the worst—but they’re not what they seem. Survival turns to betrayal as Fran uncovers the truth: Henrik stole their child as part of his family’s dark legacy—feeding children to a sleeping giant to keep it from destroying the world. With the girl hidden in the attic and the giant stirring, Fran must choose: save the child or save humanity.

Boobs

Boobs is a short animated documentary exploring the evolving meaning of breasts through Milla’s life—from childhood to motherhood. With humor and tenderness, it reflects on body image, identity, and acceptance, highlighting how society, others, and ourselves shape our views on the body.

The Carpenter

In a small Finnish town, a quiet carpenter’s peaceful life is shattered when a violent hit squad murders his daughter.

What they didn’t count on?

He’s the deadliest man to ever pick up a chisel.

Armed with handcrafted wooden weapons and decades of buried rage, he carves a brutal path of revenge through the shadowy organization that made him.

Before & After Sauna Ghost

A German workaholic unwittingly unleashes the seductive ghost of the old Scandinavian sauna, who offers to improve her body, and with it her life… in return for a small favour – lure more people in.

Everything Melts

Each episode is a love letter gone wrong, characters trapped in distorted visions of love. From cybernetic tulpas and alien cats with secrets, to souls melting into the aurora borealis.

Everything Melts is a magical ride through the unreal and the emotional, a
dreamy, never-ending crush on the impossible.

Can you hear me please?

This is a love story about a person who forms a mysterious union at the end of a long journey called on by their own shadow. 

The short hand drawn digital animation is an independent collaboration between the animator Margo Nowicka, and the music composer Agustin Sanchez Cachafeiro. 

The concept of the project is dual. It’s both a romance rooted in the transformative power of being truly heard, as well as an internal journey of self-discovery at the edge of the person and their dark side.

Red

In a bunker far from the world, a despairing man hires a dominatrix through the dark web, a woman with an inhuman stillness, for a session with no safe word. But he hasn’t come to surrender; he has come to die, convinced that his martyrdom will bring his rebirth as the Second Coming. As his delusion spirals into violence, the woman is forced to reveal her true nature: a being not entirely human, whose sacrifice is the last thread between humanity and the darkness he is about to unleash.

Weight Dropping

Weight Dropping is a feature film about a green party leader woman slowly turning into an extinct dodo bird while campaigning to win the election. This magical realism satire is dealing with near future dilemmas with food and body from both political and personal point of view – and from the bird perspective. Should we give carrot or stick, and  does it really matter in the literal end of the world? Ultimately wellbeing stems from giving love and care, not from desperately seeking to be seen.

An Amateur

An Amateur follows an internationally awarded filmmaker Samppa Batal (Samppa Batal) and his struggle while trying to make his new feature film “An Amateur”.

After his previous film received scathing reviews and drove him into financial difficulties, Samppa sees no other option but to stop making films. However, everything else being meaningless raises a new idea for yet another film. He puts his personal life on the line – while desperately trying to prove it to be a film of fiction.

A Dreamed Path

Ajla returns to Sarajevo, where time once paused in her absence—waiting for her to come back. But now, everything has shifted: the trams are new, friends are changed, her parents visibly older, and Vanja has moved on. Disoriented, she files a complaint—time wasn’t supposed to pass. When she finally sees Vanja, the world freezes. In his still apartment, Ajla quietly reshapes the life she left—until time resumes, and he senses something has shifted, though he can’t say what.

Helsinki International Film Festival –
Rakkautta & Anarkiaa ry
Bulevardi 5 A 12
00120 Helsinki, Finland

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