Saareke / The Isle.
Välityö. Type: Documentary. Genre: Documentary. 2025. Finland. 20 min 00 sec. Shot on digital. Released on DCP. Color. Sound 5.1. Aspect ratio: 16:9. 25 fps. Language: English. Subtitled in Finnish.
PRODUCER: Harri Connell
DIRECTOR: Harri Connell.
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Eemeli Nättinen.
DRAMATURGE: Sohvi Manninen.
SOUND: Kaspian Gröndahl
EDITING: Oona Pennanen.
CAST:
1. Tuomas Ihamuotila
2. Felix Kalha
3. Mark von Bonsdorff
Teachers: Anna Heiskanen, Jonathan Harvey, Oskar Franzen, Pietari Koskinen.
ONE LINER IN ENGLISH: "Keep the spark alive."
ONE LINER IN FINNISH: "Älä sammuta kipinää."
SYNOPSIS IN ENGLISH: "Three friends leave behind their everyday destractions isolate themselves on an island for two nights. As they arrive, they try to occupy themselves with what they find on the island. What differences can be seen between life surrounded by nature and everyday life at home?"
SYNOPSIS IN FINNISH: "Kolme kaverusta jättävät arjen ärsykkeet ja asettuvat kahdeksi yöksi saarelle. Saarella vastassa odottaa joutenolo ja luonto, joka seisauttaa kolmikon äärelleen. Mitä eroja ja samankaltaisuuksia oman arjen ja saarella oleskelun välille syntyy?"
AA: Digital detox as an extreme experience. More than that: an attempt at survival without the easy conveniences of urban life. Among the topics debated: camping on an island as the ultimate alienation from nature. Because it is a luxury that one can afford for a change. An interesting essay on essential issues. Image-driven, the sense of nature engrossing, original, unique. A play on light and darkness. A solid sense of composition. The key visual subject is light - full moon - lighting a fire.
Totuuksia / The Real Thing.
2026. Finland. 13 min 10 sec. Shot on digital. Released on DCP. Color / Black & White. 5.1 Dolby Surround. Language: Finnish. Premiere: 27.11.2025.
PRODUCERS: Aamu Milonoff, Myrsky Virmavirta.
DIRECTOR: Annika Palojärvi.
SCRIPT: Rusul Al Nassar, Julia Matinniemi.
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Nadia Farghaly.
GAFFER: Noa Korhonen.
SET DESIGN: Hanna Erämaja.
COSTUME DESIGN: Satu Muurinen.
MUAH DESIGNER: Sara Pettersson.
COMPOSER: Kasimir Kemppainen.
SOUND: Laura Torkkola.
EDITING: Julia Matinniemi.
CAST:
1. Aamu Milonoff (PETRA)
2. Jasir Osman (MIKKO)
3. Meri Luukkanen (AINO)
4. Ville Vuorikoski (JESSE)
5. Petteri Lassila (PAULI)
6. Antti Virmavirta (JUONTAJA)
Teachers: Anna Heiskanen, Jussi Rantamäki, Raija Talvio, Pietari Koskinen, Harri Ylönen, Jonathan Harvey, Meiju Väisänen.
ONE LINER IN ENGLISH: "Time for a short break, dear viewers."
ONE LINER IN FINNISH: "Otetaan pieni hengähdystauko, rakkaat katsojat."
SYNOPSIS IN ENGLISH: "Petra and Mikko meet on the set of the reality series Fortress of Love. Once the show airs, their romance begins to look a bit different. Is this the real thing?"
SYNOPSIS IN FINNISH: "Petra ja Mikko löytävät toisensa Rakkauden Linnake -realityohjelman kuvauksissa, mutta televisiosta katsottuna rakkaustarina alkaa näyttäytyä uudessa valossa. Paljastuvatko totuudet tv-kameroiden edessä vai takana?"
AA: A satire on reality television. The test situations are merely goofy at first, including cutting fruit and opening a jar. Matchmaking seems quite possible, but then a test question in Sophie's Choice territory shatters everything.
Small Talk / Small Talk.
Välityö. Type: Fiction. Genre: Drama. 2025. Finland. 8 min 00 sec. Shot on digital. Released in 2K DCP. Color. Sound: 5.1. Aspect ratio: 4:3. 24 fps. Language: Finnish. Subtitled in English.
PRODUCER: Harri Connell
DIRECTOR: Aaro Lindberg.
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Eemeli Nättinen.
PRODUCTION DESIGN: Felix Järvenpää.
COSTUME DESIGN: Salla Oinas.
SOUND: Kaspian Gröndahl.
EDITING: Aaro Lindberg.
CAST
1. Niklas von Lüders – Ripa
2. Juho Keränen – Mara
3. Liisa Vääriskoski – Ystävä
4. Elli Melasniemi – Tarjoilija
Teachers: Anna Heiskanen, Jonathan Harvey, Oskar Franzén, Pietari Koskinen.
ONE LINER IN ENGLISH: "You can never know."
ONE LINER IN FINNISH: "Et voi koskaan tietää."
SYNOPSIS IN ENGLISH: "A random encounter with an old friend leads to a conversation that no one actually wanted to have."
SYNOPSIS IN FINNISH: "Satunnainen kohtaaminen vanhan tuttavan kanssa johtaa keskusteluun, jota kukaan ei oikeastaan halunnut käydä."
AA: One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez is the book being read as the film begins. Two old acquaintances have not met in years. They engage in small talk. The dramaturgy is not unlike the previous film The Real Thing. Unexpectedly among the small talk topics a bomb is detonated, a piece of devastating news that reduces the listener speechless. And that is just for starters. Technically low definition, like a home video.
Etäisyyksiä / Interspace.
Välityö. Type: Animation. Genre: Drama. 2026. Finland. 15 min 15 sec. Shot in digital. Released on DCP. Color. Sound 5.1. Aspect ratio 16:9. 24 fps. Language: Finnish. Subtitled in English. Premiere.
DIRECTOR: Jesse Lähilehto.
SCRIPT: Jesse Lähilehto.
PRODUCER: Linnea Salonen.
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Iina Lallo & Aleksis Riehakainen.
SOUND: Ville Visti.
EDITING: Jesse Lähilehto.
SET DESIGN: Felix Järvenpää.
COSTUME & CHARACTER DESIGN: Tuuni Jacobs.
ANIMATION: Tuuni Jacobs & Jesse Lähilehto.
CAST
1. Linnea Leino (Pupu)
2. Aapo Salonen (Orava)
3. Eric Barco (Kettu)
4. Irpo Niemenmaa (Juhlija)
Teachers: Miia Haavisto, Jussi Rantamäki, Rauno Ronkainen, Harri Ylönen, Sofia Pantouvaki,
Pietari Koskinen.
ONE LINER IN ENGLISH: "A rabbit searches for answers to an unexplainable event."
ONE LINER IN FINNISH: "Pupu etsii selitystä selittämättömälle ilmiölle."
SYNOPSIS IN ENGLISH: "On a dark autumn night, a rabbit and a squirrel set out to recreate an unexplainable phenomenon the rabbit had experienced at a house party. While making their way to a distant field, the rabbit recounts the events of the party shadowed by uncertainty, awe, and a longing for connection."
SYNOPSIS IN FINNISH: "Hämäränä syysiltana pupu ja orava pyrkivät toistamaan pupun kotibileissä kokeman merkillisen ilmiön. Matkatessa etäiselle pellolle pupu muistelee juhlien epävarmuudella ja yhteyden kaipuulla värjättyjä tapahtumia."
AA: A weird animation about a rabbit and a squirrel who try to make sense of a fox who hosts a house party. Signals are being transmitted into outer space. The cosmic and the terrestrial appear as equally uncanny.
Kanssani aina / Forever With Me.
2025. Finland. 17 min 30 sec. Shot in digital. Released on DCP. Sound: 5.1 Surround. Aspect ratio: 1.50:1. Premiere: 5.12.2025.
DIRECTOR: Noa Korhonen, Myrsky Virmavirta.
PRODUCERS: Noa Korhonen, Myrsky Virmavirta.
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Eemeli Nättinen.
SOUND: Kaspian Gröndahl.
EDITING: Aaro Lindberg.
COMPOSER: Kaspian Gröndahl.
CAST
1. Noa Korhonen
2. Marjatta Korhonen
3. Saku Vauhkonen
4. Lilja Vauhkonen
Teachers: Anna Heiskanen, Jonathan Harvey, Pietari Koskinen, Oskar Franzén.
ONE LINER IN ENGLISH: "It's hard for me to think that you won't be here much longer."
ONE LINER IN FINNISH: "Se on mulle vaikea ajatus, että sä et kohta enää ole täällä."
SYNOPSIS IN ENGLISH: "Forever With Me is a documentary short film set over one weekend at Grandma’s in Suonenjoki, Finland. Between conversations about the past and the future — about memory, preservation, life and death — everyday gestures fill the days: mowing the lawn, frying pancakes, watering flowers at the grave, just as always before. The film explores themes of loss and the fear of forgetting, but above all, the quiet joys of the days that still remain."
SYNOPSIS IN FINNISH: "Dokumentaarinen lyhytelokuva kertoo yhdestä viikonlopusta mummolassa Suonenjoella. Menneisyyden ja tulevaisuuden, muistamisen ja säilyttämisen, elämän ja kuoleman äärellä käydyt keskustelut rytmittyvät arkisten askareiden ympärille. Nurmikko leikataan, letut paistetaan, hautakukat kastellaan – niin kuin aina ennenkin. Kanssani Aina kertoo menetyksestä ja sen pelosta, mutta ennen kaikkea jäljellä olevien yhteisten päivien iloista."
AA: A personal history movie, a family movie, about connections across generations, about traditions that still exist but are bound to vanish with the grandparents. The hard truth is faced openly: when you are here no more. The happy truth, too: the privilege to have known someone through all one's life. And forever. A profoundly human and moving documentary. The sense of nature is all-encompassing, it is the very element of life. Shot in low definition, with a soft image.
Heard in the finale: hymn 971 of the Virsikirja, the official hymnal, hymn book of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland, "Maan korvessa kulkevi lapsosen tie" / "Suojelusenkeli" ["The Guardian Angel"], lyr. Immi Hellén 1884, comp. P. J. Hannikainen 1907.
The final shot is the poster image of the Aalto ELO Film School Autumn 2025 show.
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