Shortly Night of the Arts

Event Introduction

New Finnish short films. The screening is shown twice during the evening (5 pm & 7 pm).
Age rating: 7. Duration 80 min.

GOOD NIGHT MONSTER (7)
Emilia Hernesniemi | 2025 | Experimental, Documentary | 18 min
Vilma prepares for the Theatre Academy entry exams, like she did last spring. Striving for her place in the world, she finds herself in a limbo. It is a Monster, that is stuck fast within her.

PUOLANKA PUSSY RALLY (S)
Inka Achté, Einari Paakkanen | 2026 | Documentary | 6 min
Puolanka, a tiny village in Northern Finland is famous for its population decline, but also for its dark sense of humor about it. As the long summer evenings stretch out, teenage boys celebrate their new driver’s licences by endlessly circling the same few streets, while an older generation of local gents, proudly known as The Parliament, has already parked itself permanently at the petrol station café. Here, hunting and the legendary “Pussy Rally” aren’t taboos but badges of cultural identity. The only mystery that seems unsolved: where have all the women gone?

EQUAL DUST (7)
Jani Peltonen | 2025 | Experimental, Documentary | 14 min
NATO’s nuclear exercise, a tracking shot through nocturnal Helsinki and the Finnish Eurovision Song Contest entries show what the end of the world looked like in the 1980s.

THE SOCK (S)
Aleksi Artturi Räisänen | 2024 | Animation | 6 min
One man, one sock, one mission. But the sock has bigger dreams.

TOO BLUE A SKY (7)
Jukka Kärkkäinen | 2026 | Experimental, Documentary | 6 min
150 years of history, as told by a freshwater pearl mussel, and finally, an important reminder: the planet does not belong only to us, especially not only to millionaires and billionaires.

THE BEAUTY OF AUTOMOBILES (S)
Jukka Kärkkäinen | 2026 | Documentary | 6 min
Intimate moment between a father and son – one night, one car ride, one problem.

STRIVE (7)
Jussi Rautaniemi | 2026 | Fiction | 15 min
In a world where everyone escapes reality, a teenage boy named Toni longs to experience something real, even if it becomes his undoing. You cannot find yourself without getting some scars.

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