AFF – Artova Film Festival 2010
Sweeping, open-minded, territorial, fun, fresh, tasty, humorous, a horrible wonderful, honest, kicking, unifying, flirtatious, remember to compile, laughing, warm, throbbing, upbeat, sincere and first. AFF Artova Film Festival 11/9 award-winning short films in a special screening. See for yourself!
AFF Artova Film Festival is Arabianranta, Toukola and Vanhakaupunki film festival, which screens amazing selection of regional film production. Competition received nearly 100 short films, of which an authoritative jury of Kie Von Hertzen, Kalle Kinnunen and Irina Krohn choose the winners.
Avaruustanssi
Director: Eevi Snellman, 3 min.
Eevi is a 10-year-old shy girl who likes computers. She tells about herself with the help of a computer. ”Here I am. I’m Eevi.”
Window Shopping
Subtitles/Dialogue: English
Director: Tommi Kainulainen, 9 min.
A doll falls in love with a passerby. Window Shopping is a fairy tale for grown-ups.
Kaupunki
Subtitles/Dialogue: English
Director: Vappu Tuomisto, 6 min.
A short animation film about the mood and the tone of a city.
Ghosts
Subtitles/Dialogue: English
Director: Jan Ijäs, 15 min.
“I’m not dead… I just exist.”
Yövuoro
Subtitles/Dialogue: English
Directors: Samppa Kukkonen, Sara Wahl, Simo Koivunen, 6 min.
A bird and a bat live as neighbours, sharing a tree. Their different lifestyles cause trouble.
Freakers
Director: Perttu Inkilä, 10 min.
In this slightly tragicomical documentary men are skating and thinking about the fundamental questions of life.
High Hopes
Subtitles/Dialogue: English
Director: Mazdak Nassir, 14 min.
A couple isolates themselves to raise a child in their own way.
A Kosovo Fairytale
Subtitles/Dialogue: English
Directors: Anna-Sofia Nylund, Samantha Nell, Mark Middlewick, 15 min.
A story of a family that has had to flee from Kosovo. The film combines animation and documentary.
Lumikko
Subtitles/Dialogue: English
Director: Miia Tervo, 19 min.
It’s not wrong to want love – you just need to look for it in the right place.
Metsään
Director: Antti Lahtinen, 9 min.
Winter day is perfect for a bit of trekking. Something is bothering Teppo though. After a fight Teppo gets lost from his girlfriend and everything goes to hell.
Kirkonkylä
Subtitles/Dialogue: English
Director: Elise Pietarila, 14 min.
A film about the art of finding one’s own voice.
Duration: 90 min
Age limit: K15
