Lauantai 5.9.
The Love That Remains
Hlynur Pálmason | Iceland | 2025
Captures a year in the life of a family as the parents navigate their separation. Through intimate vignettes and strange occurrences, the film explores the complexities of family, love, and the impact of shared memories.
Let Our Mountains Live
Håvard Bustness │ Sámi, Norway │ 2026
Sámi reindeer herders win a Supreme Court victory against Europe’s largest wind farm
– but when the state refuses to act, their fight reveals a deeper crisis of justice and trust.
Guest appearance
FINNISH PREMIERE
Gaia
I Am A River Heidi Piiroinen | 2026
The River ወንዙ Herrana Addisu | 2024 | PREMIERE
Somos Pequeñas Maria Fernanda Galindo | 2021 | PREMIERE
Kusi Smiles Sisa Quispe | 2024
Akababuru: Expression of Astonishment Yagarí Irati Dojura Landa | 2025 | PREMIERE
Becoming Air Alisi Telengut, Diego Galafassi | 2024
Strong stories of women by women.
Lama’s Son
Kesang Tseten | Nepal | 2025
Lama Tsultrim, in his late 70s, is a lama of the pre-Buddhist Bön religion from a tiny village in Nepal Himalaya. He is awaiting his son’s return, to take over ritual duties that he must perform for Bön and Buddhist patrons in the mountain region of Mustang. The lama has been waiting for 21 years.
FINNISH PREMIERE
Tales From The Magic Garden
David Súkup, Patrik Pašš, Leon Vidmar, Jean-Claude Rozec │ Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia, France │ 2025
Three kids spend the night at their grandpa’s house. To fill the silence after losing their grandma, the family’s storyteller, they begin to create their own stories and discover the power of imagination. This uplifting stop-motion film celebrates creativity and its healing magic
FINNISH PREMIERE
Sunnuntai 5.9.
The Last Paradise On Earth
Sakaris Stórá │ Faroese Islands │ 2025
A young man desperately tries to hold together his fractured family and his own paradise in the Faroe Islands.
Amongst the Birds
Mika Kaurismäki, Ingvar Þórðarson, Ragnar Axelsson │ Iceland │ 2026
Every year, twelve thousand birds and a few people gather for three months in a remote Icelandic fjord, Loðmundarfjörður.
Rustic Oracle
Sonia Boinspille Boileau │ Canada │ 2026
A dramatic story about Ivy, a young girl trying to understand what happened to her big sister who has vanished from their small Mohawk community. Behind the story of desperation, told through the eyes of a child, lies one of hope, growth, awakening and love.
FINNISH PREMIERE
Arctic
Nimer Aina Vinokurova | 2024 PREMIERE
Shaaghan Neekwaii Princess Daazhraii Johnson | 2025
Mu Gieđas Liselotte Wajstedt & Marja Helander | 2025
Borderline Johannes Vang | 2026
The brightest new stars of Arctic cinema.
Cloudboy
Meikeminne Clinckspoor │ Belgia, Alankomaat, Ruotsi │ 2017
Niilas is sent to his mother in Lapland. She takes him on a journey in the magical woods where shy Niilas turns into a wild cloudboy.