Ostrobothnia Film Fest
21-23.2.2025
TICKETS
SINGLE movie tickets: 9€
TWO or more movies: 7€/movie
Mavka, Arne Alligator: 5€
Festival pass! Entry to ALL movies Friday - Sunday: 30€
FRIDAY 16.2
16.45
Shorts from Arcada
Short films made by Ostrobothnian students at Arcada
FREE ENTRY!
16.45
Blå timmen (7'43''):
Julia Lindberg (producent) och Cornelia Berg (regi)
Käre Albert (19'45''):
Ivar Vuori (producent), Victoria Forsman (manus och regi), Matilda Hagnäs (foto), Leo Harald (ljuddesign och musik), Rasmus Dahla (ljuddesign)
Murder of Crows (13'37''):
Ara Ali (produktionsassistent), Henrik Miettinen (foto)
17:25 Q & A With the moviemakers
17:55
Sellout (13'30''):
Adrian Blomqvist (manus & regi), Ville Holmström (ljuddesign och musik)
Idol (8'23''):
Dariia Zadvorska (producent), Lukas Jokilehto (regi), Adam Valkeinen (foto & klipp)
Agape (8'14''):
William Fikaris (manus), Anton Malén (foto & klipp)
18:35 Q & A With the moviemakers
FRIDAY 16.2
19.30
Kaukainen Planeetta
SHORT: Kaukainen planeetta. Juho Kuosmanen’s (Hytti nro 6) short silent movie about a lighthouse watcher and her brother finding out about the end. FREE!
FRIDAY 16.2
20.00
Miraklet i Gullspång
DOC + Q&A: Miraklet i Gullspång. A woman buying a house finds the seller looks identical to her own sister, who died 30 years earlier.
Cinematographer Pia Lehto joins us for a discussion after the movie.
SATURDAY 17.2
12.00
Little Scandinavia
DOC + Q&A: Little Scandinavia. The experiment to bring a Scandinavian prison to the US.
Director and producer Tomas Lindh joins us for a discussion after the movie.
SATURDAY 17.2
14.30
Past Lives
Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrested apart after Nora's family emigrates from South Korea. Twenty years later, they are reunited for one fateful week as they confront notions of love and destiny.
Trailer: https://youtu.be/meQrkjQomTI
Language: Korean, English, Mandarin, French
Subtitles: Swedish, Finnish
105 min, All ages
SATURDAY 17.2
16.30
The Peasants
Preview: Premiere 1.3.2024!
A visually stunning film, composed of individual oil paintings, from the makers of the award-winning Loving Vincent.
During the early 19th century in the Polish village of Lipce, we get to follow the inhabitants through the changes of the seasons, everyday life and celebrations. From spring sowing through summer, autumn harvest time and winter. In addition to an insight into the farming community with its crafts and rituals, the plot revolves around the young Jagna and her quest to marry the village's richest man, the much older Maciej.
Trailer: https://youtu.be/iGDGoYQkEgQ
Language: Polish, Latin
Subtitles: Swedish, Finnish
114 min, From 16 years
SATURDAY 17.2
19.45
Ohjus
In December 1984, a Soviet missile crashed into Lake Inari, and the international incident is complete. The drama-comedy tells the story of single parent Niina, who gets a new start in her life as a reporter for a local newspaper - and faces a possible scoop in a village where nothing ever happens. Niina plunges deep into the international missile crisis. Lapland and the small village are upended, and foreign journalists flock to the local hotel. In the midst of her research, Niina meets the fighter pilot Kai, and at the same time her ex-husband Tapio is about to be released from prison. Niina has to find her boundaries, for her own sake, and so the truth about the missile will see the light of day. Ohjus is a film about borders and boundaries, or the lack of them. A film where political satire meets warm humour.
Trailer: https://youtu.be/yHRLghnp45c
Language: Finnish
Subtitles: Swedish
115 min, From 12 years
SUNDAY 18.2
12.30
Arne Alligator och djungelkompisarna
På svenska, in Swedish.
Vi får följa med Arne och hans vänner på deras äventyr där de stöter på olika utmaningar och gör sitt bästa för att lösa dem tillsammans. Med deras sympatiska och unika personligheter – knasiga, snälla och modiga – utgör de en perfekt grupp med vänner.
Tickets: 5€
Trailer: https://youtu.be/Tptgy3fdIko
Language: Swedish
Subtitles: None
62 min, All ages
SUNDAY 18.2
14.00
Mavka - Metsän laulu
Preview: Premiere 26.7.2024!
Vihreitä arvoja korostava koko perheen animaatio Mavka: Metsän laulu on ukrainalais-amerikkalainen yhteistuotanto ja Euroopan laajuinen kassamenestys, joka kannustaa rakentamaan siltoja yli rajojen.
Muinaisista ajoista saakka Ukrainan metsät ovat kätkeneet sisäänsä uskomattomia salaisuuksia ja myyttisiä olentoja. Mavka on haltia ja metsän sielu, jonka tehtävä on suojella metsän sydäntä kaikilta vaaroilta, etenkin ihmisiltä. Lucas on läheisen kylän asukas, joka haaveilee urasta muusikkona. Kun heidän maailmansa kohtaavat, tapahtuu jotain odottamatonta: he rakastuvat. Mutta ihmisten ja metsän asukkaiden joutuessa törmäyskurssille vanhan sahalaitoksen perijättären juonien seurauksena, myös Mavka ja Lucas ajautuvat vastakkain. Voittaako rakkaus epäilyksen ja pelon?
Tickets: 5€
Trailer: https://youtu.be/WtjkC7a_r0Y
Language: Suomeksi, in Finnish.
Subtitles: None
62 min, All ages
SUNDAY 18.2
16.00
The Boy and the Heron
The young Mahito misses his mother and ends up looking for her in the border world shared by the living and the dead, where death ends and new life can begin. The Boy and the Heron is Hayao Miyazaki's partly autobiographical fantasy about life and death, a story about creation and the meaning of friendship.
Tickets: 5€
Trailer: https://youtu.be/QqM44kWnZZ0
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: Swedish, Finnish
124 min, From 12 years
SUNDAY 18.2
18.30
Anatomy of a Fall
Nominated for five Oscars and winner of two Golden Globes.
Sandra, Samuel and their 11-year-old son have spent a year in a remote villa in the French Alps. When Samuel is found dead in the snow in the yard of the house, the police begin to investigate whether he fell or was pushed down. During the court case, not only the circumstances of Samuel's death are clarified, but also, and especially, the psychological probing of the conflicting relationship between Sandra and Samuel. In the thriller directed by Justine Triet, words are used like weapons, and shocking truths see the light of day.
Trailer: https://youtu.be/rh2S6lOy3pA
Language: French, English, German
Subtitles: Finnish, Swedish
151 min, From 12 years