Tag Archive for: FFA 2025

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.

Octopus

Isla (19), drowning in debt, receives an invite to an app called Octopus. It looks like a game offering big money for small real-life tasks. Isla and her best friend Brita (19) try it out—the first task: steal a purple dildo. It feels like a prank, not a crime, and when Isla’s debt drops by a thousand euros, it seems too good to be true.

More tasks follow. Isla’s coworker Serafia (19) and Serafia’s friend Linni (17) join in. The jobs get harder, but so do the payouts. What starts as petty crimes becomes a thrilling lifestyle—luxury, parties, and adrenaline. The app gives them purpose, danger, and control.

But soon, the tasks escalate. The crimes grow serious. The media catches on. Fear creeps in. Tension brews within the group. Trust erodes. What if someone flips?

Then comes another task: stab a stranger at Helsinki Central Station. The girls hit a wall. No one wants to do it, but Isla is told she’ll be eliminated by another user if she refuses.

Now, they must choose: back out and risk their lives, or do the unthinkable to survive. Octopus has taken over. They’re no longer in control.

The Truth Seeker

The Truth Seeker is a powerful drama series based on true events, centered on forensic odontologist Helena Ranta — a woman feared by the world’s dictators.

In 1996, Ranta, 48, is recently divorced, in the midst of an identity crisis and the owner of a new, fast sports car. When she’s asked to travel to the former Yugoslavia to uncover war atrocities as the leader of an international victim identification team, she packs her bags without hesitation. Impatient and uncompromising, Ranta often takes matters into her own hands, breaks the rules, and carries out espionage missions for human rights organizations. She tries to stay neutral in her pursuit of truth – a mission that’s nearly impossible in a world demanding allegiance.

As snipers, car bombs, and political pressure become part of her daily reality, Ranta comes to realize that truth is a weapon — and defending it is deadly dangerous.

Epic Family

A romantic date night and a stomach bug! A rainy November and being late for daycare! Constant sleep deprivation and perpetual motion machine children!

The supermom of the family wants to ace life perfectly but ends up overdoing everything under pressure: picks up the wrong kids from daycare, cleans the wrong house, and finds herself at an elves’ sex party on Christmas Eve.

With the support of other parents, they always manage to get through it all: “That could happen to anyone.”

Transporter

Transporter is a real-time action thriller set over one relentless day in northern Finland. When a donor heart is hijacked during transport, transplant coordinator Niina Lehto has just four hours—the time a heart can survive outside the body, to recover it. But this is no ordinary assignment: the heart was meant for her estranged sister.

Thrown into a chase across icy roads and moral boundaries, Niina must track down the thieves, uncover their motive, and survive betrayals from both outside and within. As she races against the clock, the story explores a powerful question: Who gets to decide who lives and who dies?

Unlike the dark, brooding tone of many Nordic crime series, Transporter unfolds largely in cold winter daylight before descending into night, reflecting the moral and emotional pressure closing in. With six 45-minute episodes unfolding in real time, it delivers urgent pacing, bold set pieces, and complex emotional stakes—all rooted in a stylized yet grounded version of our reality.

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

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