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Tonight, Ingrid Holm (Edda Björgvsindóttir) 70, Icelandic star of stage and screen, is opening a new theatre show. Vincent Beck (Sean Harris) 60, an English journalist, and devoted Ingrid fan, arrives backstage to interview Ingrid. Ingrid has zero time for this. Vincent waits.

Líf, the young costume designer, is having an affair with older actor Kári. Lif tired of Kari’s broken promises to leave his wife, decides to take control and get rid of Kari.  Kári, crushed ego, retaliates by tricking newbie actor Daniel into believing Líf wants to share them both. 

Meanwhile, Vincent’s snooping around, his motives now sinister. Post show, Daniel buys into Kari’s false threesome, igniting brutal consequences. Out in the empty theatre, Ingrid must confront Vincent…and her past.

Pigtown

Pigtown is a rural romantic zombie horror comedy set in the idyllic Finnish countryside. Iida, a long-time animal rights activist, wants to stop breaking into farms, but her radical friend Anja goes too far: she poisons pig feed with a strange black liquid that gradually turns the pigs into bloodthirsty zombies. When an unlucky farmhand gets bitten, the disease spreads to humans. At the same time, Sami, a city boy ashamed of his roots, arrives for a relaxing weekend on his family farm. When he meets Iida at the village festival, sparks fly—until the villagers start turning one by one and village bingo erupts into a zombie bloodbath. Packed with dark humor, blood-splattered fields, eccentric villagers, and weaponized combine harvesters, Pigtown is a rural genre mashup like no other. It blends splatter horror, love story, and sharp satire into an unforgettable cult experience about farming, food, and survival.

Arne Goes to Space

An alien crash-lands in Älvsbyn in Norrbotten. His mission was to learn more about the planet earth in Papua New Guinea, but ends up with two brothers who struggle with hunting team conflicts and death – the younger brother Arne has had a relapse of cancer and is hospitalized. At first, Stefan doesn’t want a free loathing space man in his home, but soon Roland’s telekinetic powers come in handy. Stefan begin to teach him about the important things in life – moonshine, hunting and the concept of love. When Arne is getting worse Stefan is forced to face the inevitable, a life without his brother.

The Guest

The day before Karl and Emilie’s son’s naming party, Karl’s estranged mother Vibeke arrives unannounced. Hoping to rejoin the family and prove herself as a grandmother, she inserts herself into the intimate weekend gathering at a seaside hotel. While Karl is furious, his sister Rikke insists Vibeke deserves a second chance. Over the course of the weekend, tensions rise, old patterns resurface, and long-buried family dynamics play out in front of confused in-laws and curious guests. What begins as a celebration quietly unravels into a confrontation with the past, filled with missteps, unresolved wounds, and moments of surprising warmth. 

The Guest is a sharply observed drama about roles we inherit, the people we try to become, and the impossibility of ever fully escaping where we come from. Told with both humor and heart, it’s a story about a family trying to hold it together when everything starts to fall apart.

The Bearer of Chaos

Jakob has struggled with his emotions his entire life, shaped by a childhood marked by anger and months in foster care. Without a role model to look up to, the only example he knew from home was his father’s rage. After his parents’ divorce, Jakob assumed this role himself. By the age of eleven, he was already violent—testing limits in a desperate attempt to challenge his mother’s, and his family’s, love.

The turning point came through his grandfather, who showed him what it truly means to be a compassionate being. Yet the grief of abandonment never left Jakob. Convinced he was the only one suffering, he returns to his grandfather in search of answers.

When Jakob begins filming, he creates a space where old wounds, suppressed memories, and half-forgotten truths resurface. Gradually, the entire family is drawn into an unexpected confrontation with the past and Jakob discovers he was not the only victim. Can anything good come from reopening a history nearly swallowed by oblivion?

The Bearer of Chaos is a film about love and the power of reclaiming one’s own story—an attempt to break free from the past in order to face the future.

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

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