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Distribution Catalogue 2026–2027
The works featured in the Distribution Catalogue 2026–2027 have been selected by guest curator Nour Ouayda in collaboration with AV-arkki’s team.
The Distribution Catalogue 2026–2027 consists of the following titles:
My Feet Got Cold
2027 | 18 min
A confessional film about love and adulthood on the brink of the apocalypse.
Ville Koskinen’s works have been described as adventure films where the adventure never begins. Everlasting battles and emotions are ongoing themes in his work. His films have been screened and awarded internationally.
I am a River
2026 | 6 min
Inspired by Pablo Neruda’s Book of Questions—a collection of lyrical, unanswerable poems that playfully interrogate nature, life, and the cosmos—the film weaves poetic inquiry with visual abstraction through the rarely used mordançage technique. Its veil-like formations evoke the fluid, fragile, ever-changing essence of rivers, suggesting they are living entities, much like us.
The film is produced by PALO.
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Heidi Piiroinen (b. 1978) is a Helsinki-based visual artist and photographer. After two decades in photojournalism, she shifted towards an intimate, process-driven practice spanning film, installation and print. Her short film I am a River competed at the International Film Festival Rotterdam.
par-siyāvashun
2026 | 13 min
A tale of a city whose people cannot grieve.
Mana Tashakorinia grew up in films, imagining herself as characters. In Iranian cinema, physical intimacy is forbidden on screen, and this distance between dominant representation and lived reality has haunted most of her practice. Tashakorinia’s stories are mainly about a fracture in hegemonic narratives, where authority holds sway yet remains unsettled by our storytelling.
Tashakorinia records films and works with folklores, rituals, stones, puppets, and glasses. She holds an MA in ViCCA: Visual Culture, Curating, and Contemporary Art from Aalto University, Finland, and is currently researching nature-driven occult practices in iranian/islamic context at the Institute for Post Natural Studies.
A Phantasia
2026 | 30 min
The creator’s inability to form visual images in the mind — aphantasia — led her to cast cinematic light into the dimness of her own mind, embarking on an exploration of the world of imagination, guided by chance and inspired by personal experience, language, the environment, brain research, and psychoanalysis. The result is an analogically shot, boundary-pushing documentary essay film in which the creator finds herself contemplating the many facets of imagination while observing the built environment of her hometown through a small, blurry lens.
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Marjo Levlin is an visual artist living and working in Helsinki. In her works, she contemplates both personal and universal themes, combining history and current phenomena. Originally a painter, Levlin now works mainly in installations and short films and often uses found and collected objects as the base for her art. In her latest works, archives, science and history has played an increasingly significant role. Levlin’s works have been presented in solo and group exhibitions as well as festivals since the mid-1990s in Finland and abroad. Marjo Levlin (b. 1966 Graz, Austria) studied in Finland at Vapaa Taidekoulu(1990-91), at Taidekoulu Maa(1992-96) and at the Academy of Fine Arts (2008-10) with a MA at the department of time and space/moving image.
Yaris, Crow
2026 | 13 min
Yaris, Crow is a slow loss of grip on reality: the search for «objectivity» at the fringes of a society consumed by technology.
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Matti Harju’s works have been screened at the Rotterdam, Locarno, Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Torino, BFI London, Edinburgh, AFI FEST Los Angeles and Clermont-Ferrand film festivals, among others. He studied film directing at the National Film and Television School (NFTS) in the UK and holds an MFA from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts.
Čuoivvatáldu
2026 | 6 min
Animated drawings based on archive photographs accompany the Sámi musician Ánnámáret’s luohti (yoik), expressing respect and gratitude to the reindeer, alongside jouhikko by Ilkka Heinonen and electronic music by Turkka Inkilä. The work explores Sámi reindeer herders’ worldview, centred on nurturing reindeer and their living conditions, and the intertwining of human culture with it.
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Marja Viitahuhta (formerly Mikkonen) is a Helsinki-based media artist and filmmaker who grew up in the Inari region. Her works range from films, performances and installations to photography and collage. She holds a BA degree in performance art from the Turku Polytechnic Arts Academy and an MFA degree from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts. She has been awarded internationally at Cannes (Cinéfondation), Stuttgarter Filmwinter, Mediawave and L’Alternativa film festivals. Viitahuhta often bases her experimental works on documentary methods such as usage of archive material and found images as well as interviews. Viitahuhta has collaborated with musicians Ánnámáret (Anna Näkkäläjärvi-Länsman), Ilkka Heinonen and Turkka Inkilä since 2019. The working group is initiated by Ánnámáret.
Tree Moon Bone
2026 | 4 min
A female figure tentatively strokes the roots of a large fallen tree. Batteries oxidized inside the film camera long ago, causing erratic operation and manifesting in the footage as interruptions, specks of dust and debris, and glitches. The tree roots form a shape resembling a placenta and blood veins that echo in the contours of the human figure’s hands. Similarities between these bodies of water – human and tree – are also interwoven in the audio, which blends uncanny subterranean and underwater sounds. Low frequencies vibrate in space and within the body. The sound is created by Kristiina Männikkö using geophones and hydrophones. Tree Moon Bone intertwines connections between nature-based beliefs, embodied experiences and sensory knowledge.
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Minna Suoniemi (b. 1972) is a Helsinki-based artist working with moving image and video installation. She’s interested in how disruption and failure can make normative structures and models visible and has worked on loaded subjects such as gender roles, motherhood and power relations. She has exhibited internationally in Europe, United States, South America and Asia including Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma in Helsinki, Preus Museum of Photography in Norway, 2nd International Festival for Photography and Video in Seoul and Moscow Biennial for young art, and her work is in Collections of major Finnish Art Museums. Suoniemi is a member of The Finnish State audiovisual Art Committee and works as a lecturer in Aalto University, Department of Art.
Close Watch
2027 | 35 min
Close Watch is based on Pilvi Takala’s experiences during a six-month employment and field research while working covertly for Securitas as a security guard in one of Finland’s largest shopping malls.
The film sheds light on the underpaid, undervalued, underregulated workforce of guards, facing ethical dilemmas at work. While collegial support is imperative, what if your colleague is the aggressor? When must you break ranks, and how?
Takala and five of her former colleagues re-enact scenes from their workplace. Using the technique of Forum Theatre, they test out alternative strategies to intervene in situations that involve excessive use of force, racist language or toxic behaviour. In this process, the guards reflect on their role and responsibility as security personnel who exercise power to maintain order. Revealing internal mechanisms of the security industry, Close Watch takes a critical look at how power is exercised in public spaces and in the constantly growing security economy.
Pilvi Takala uses performative interventions to question social structures and normative rules of behaviour in different cultural contexts. Her works emerge from research in a certain community and then reach out to a wider audience stretching the limits of documentary film and performance art.
The Map
2026 | 18 min
The Map explores the transmission of traditions, customs, and knowledge from one generation to the next, as well as the effects of their disruption on individuals and society. The work is rooted in personal experiences centered on traditions and memories. Through these experiences, it explores the connections between rootlessness and individualism and their links to gender, capitalism, and social structures.
The work includes documentary material and presents two different perspectives on the subject. It explores what it feels like when customs, habits, traumas, and traditions are passed down—or not passed down—from one generation to the next. What do we want to pass on to future generations? What do we pass on, and what do we leave behind?
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Hannele Turunen works across visual art, performing arts, and participatory art. She often approaches her subjects through interactive processes in which art serves as a space for encounters. In recent years, her relationship with memory, roots, and history has become central to her artistic practice. Through these themes, she explores how power is constructed in everyday life, communities, and landscapes in the present day.
Assemblies Anonymous
2026 | 5 min
Assemblies Anonymous takes shape as a mystical collection of ephemeral architectures found in the peripheral woods of nordic suburbs. Existing between sculpture, shelter and ruin, these organic, collective assemblies remain in a state of constant transformation. Shot on 16 mm film and accompanied by an electroacoustic soundscape composed on a Buchla analogue synthesiser, the work unfolds as a ritualistic journey through a landscape in which these living sculptures emerge, evoking a mythic time where youth, freedom and collective imagination intertwine.
Sound, perception and imagination are essential ingredients in the research and practice of Jonna Kina (b. 1984). Her work reveals the value of fictional viewpoints in non-fictional investigations. Kina’s works have been shown in the Tokyo Photographic Art Museum; Fondazione Pastificio Cerere, Rome; Dunkers Kulturhus, Helsingborg; Musée de l’Elysée, Lausanne; International Film Festival Rotterdam; Hasselblad Foundation, Gothenburg; Espoo Modern Art Museum EMMA; Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn and in Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere, among others. Kina has recently been awarded the Finnish Art Prize “Below Zero” (2018) and her film Arr. for a Scene was awarded as the “Best Nordic Short Film” at Nordisk Panorama Film Festival in Malmö (2017). She was also shortlisted for the VISIO Young Talent Acquisition Prize in Florence (2017).