Experiencing Interruptions?

Finnish and paranoid dream

How to talk about the future when it seems there is no future? The world exploded and it only remains a voice formulating hypotheses about a future that will be or that already is. What is all this? A prologue to the future? The future itself? A Finnish and paranoid dream? It seems that the future has already arrived and many of our fantasies about the different futuristic imaginaries already inhabit this world along with our humanity. As an example of this: artificial intelligence, a tool that we used to make this short film and that intersects organically with its concept.
AI tools used: Stable Diffusion, Kaiber, Pika Labs.

  • Jimena Aguilar
    Director
  • Jimena Aguilar
    Writer
  • Jimena Aguilar
    Producer
  • Mantrixa
    Producer
  • Camila Peralta
    Key Cast
  • Mantrixa
    Animation
  • Jimena Aguilar
    Original Music and Sound Design
  • Mantrixa
    Edition
  • Mantrixa
    Additional Sound and Sound Mix
  • Felipe Rubio
    Director of Photography
  • Felipe Rubio
    Director of Sound
  • Jimena Aguilar
    Art Direction
  • Mantrixa
    Art Direction
  • Mantrixa
    Graphic Design
  • Project Title (Original Language):
    Sueño finlandés y paranoico
  • Project Type:
    Animation, Experimental, Short
  • Runtime:
    7 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    February 19, 2024
  • Country of Origin:
    Argentina
  • Country of Filming:
    Argentina
  • Language:
    Spanish
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    16:9
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    Yes
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • 5º edición VECINE: Festival de Cine de Villa Crespo
    Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires
    Argentina
    April 7, 2024
    World Premiere
    Official Selection
  • Festival La Mujer y el Cine
    Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires
    Argentina
    May 2, 2024
    Special Mention "Una nueva mirada"
  • Maravíllame - Muestra de Cortometrajes de la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y de la Comunicación de la Universidad de Cádiz
    Jerez de la Frontera, Cádiz, Andalucía
    Spain
    April 18, 2024
    International Premiere Official Selection
  • Conil de Cine - Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes
    Conil de la Frontera, Cádiz, Andalucía
    Spain
    May 23, 2025
    Official Selection
  • +RAIN Film Festival
    Barcelona
    Spain
    June 11, 2025
    Official Selection
  • ALC Videoart Festival
    Alicante
    Spain
    May 8, 2024
    Official Selection
  • TRETS, Festival Internacional de Cinema i Cultures. Cultura ARGENTINA
    Cataluña
    Spain
    May 3, 2025
    Catalunian Premiere
    Official Selection
  • 17º Baixada Animada - Mostra Ibero-Americana de Cinema de Animação
    São João de Meriti, Rio de Janeiro
    Brazil
    September 5, 2025
    Brazilian Premiere
    Official Selection
  • Wiphay! Escuela Itinerante de Cine Animado
    Puno
    Peru
    May 30, 2024
    Peruan Premiere
    Official Selection
  • 26 edición Festival Corto Ciudad Real 2024
    Ciudad Real
    Spain
    June 17, 2024
    Official Selection
  • People Versus TV (PVTV) Fringe Flicks
    Liverpool
    United Kingdom
    June 7, 2024
    United Kingdom Premiere
    Official Selection
  • Places of Cultures Film Festival
    Río de Janeiro
    Brazil
    July 11, 2024
    Official Selection
  • Festival de Cine Social y Comunitario - SALVAJE
    Bogotá
    Colombia
    September 19, 2024
    Colombian Premiere
    Winner · Best Film Award (Latin American Competition) / Cinema for Other Presents Award (Latin American Competition) / Official Selection
  • Festival l'Art en Chemin 2024 France October 4, 2024
    Trumilly
    France
    October 4, 2024
    French Premiere
    Official Selection
  • Short Cut FestivalI August 30, 2024
    Indjija, Vojvodina
    Serbia
    August 30, 2024
    Serbian Premiere
    Official Selection
  • 30ª Festival Internacional de Cine Medioambiental CineEco
    Seia, Beira Alta
    Portugal
    October 10, 2024
    Portuguese Premiere
    Official Selection
  • Festival Audiovisual Internacional Origen
    Granada
    Spain
    August 23, 2024
    Official Selection
  • Festival De Curtmetratges De Medi Ambient I Sostenibilitat - Parc Natural I Reserva De La Biosfera Del Montseny
    Viladrau, Girona
    Spain
    August 31, 2024
    Official Selection
  • FelCO · Festival Latinoamericano de Cortometrajes de Olavarría Argentina September 14, 2024 3rd Prize - Best Short Film Official Selection
    Olavarría, Buenos Aires
    Argentina
    September 14, 2024
    3rd Prize - Best Short Film
    Official Selection
  • Festival Audiovisual Internacional Territorio Sacromonte
    Granada, Andalucía
    Spain
    August 27, 2024
    Official Selection
  • 22º Muestra de Cine · Mujeres En Escena
    Málaga
    Spain
    October 23, 2024
    Malaga Premiere
    Official Selection
  • 6º Muestra de Cortometrajes Castillo de Jarabá
    Jarabá, Zaragoza
    Spain
    August 9, 2024
    Official Selection
  • Moonlight Online International Film Festival
    Arboga, Västmanland
    Sweden
    September 10, 2024
    Swedish Premiere
    Official Selection
  • #NarrarElFuturo: X Festival de Cine & Nuevos Medios
    Bogotá
    Colombia
    September 10, 2024
    Official Selection
  • 14º Festiver · Festival de Cine Verde de Barichara
    Barichara, Santander
    Colombia
    September 19, 2024
    Official Selection
  • 3º FAP · Festival Audiovisual de Pila
    Pila, Buenos Aires
    Argentina
    August 22, 2024
    Official Selection
  • 8º El Cecehachero · Festival Internacional de Cine, Videojuegos y Narrativas Audiovisuales
    Ciudad de México
    Mexico
    September 10, 2024
    Mexican Premiere
    Special Mention of Jury
  • BUEISFF - British University International Students Film Festival
    El Cairo
    Egypt
    October 14, 2024
    Egypcian Premiere
    Official Selection
  • FICCS · Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes de la Cuenca del Salado
    Rauch, Buenos Aires
    Argentina
    October 6, 2024
    Official Selection
  • XI Intermediaciones Muestra Internacional de Videoarte & Cine Experimental
    Medellín, Antioquia
    Colombia
    October 8, 2024
    Official Selection
  • 9° Festival de Cine de Chascomús
    Chascomús, Buenos Aires
    Argentina
    September 28, 2024
    Official Selection
  • Max Sir International Film Festival
    Lviv
    Ukraine
    September 13, 2024
    Ukrainian premiere
    Official Selection
  • Festival de Cine de Hendaia
    Hendaya, País Vasco
    France
    October 10, 2024
    Official Selection
  • 1º Festival Encuadre
    Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires
    Argentina
    September 20, 2024
    Official Selection
  • 16º Pantalla Latina
    St. Gallen
    Switzerland
    November 14, 2024
    Swiss Premiere
    Official Selection
  • Shnit Buenos Aires
    Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires
    Argentina
    October 10, 2024
    Official Selection
  • NEOSFEST Encuentro Internacional de Experimentación Audiovisual
    Puebla
    Mexico
    November 7, 2024
    Official Selection
  • 17º Festival Nacional de Cortometrajes Corto Rodado
    Comodoro Rivadavia, Chubut
    Argentina
    October 28, 2024
    Official Selection
  • Festival de Cortos · Cine Efervescentes
    Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires
    Argentina
    October 17, 2024
    Official Selection
  • Un Barrio de Cine
    Granada
    Spain
    September 20, 2024
    Official Selection
  • Festival Cortos para Tiempos Largos
    Pereira, Risaralda
    Colombia
    October 24, 2024
    Official Selection
  • Primeiro Plano Festival de Cinema de Juiz de Fora e Mercocidades
    Juiz de Fora, Minas Gerais
    Brazil
    October 23, 2024
    Official Selection
  • School Experience Festival
    Giffoni Valle Piana, Salerno
    Italy
    April 1, 2025
    Italian Premiere
    Official Selection
  • 20º SREC · Muestra de Cortometrajes San Rafael en Corto
    Vecindario, Las Palmas
    Spain
    November 2, 2024
    Official Selection
  • 3 Margens - Festival Latino-Americano de Cinema
    Foz de Iguazú, Paraná
    Brazil
    November 14, 2024
    Official Selection
  • 40º Concurso Nacional de Cine Independiente de Cipolletti
    Cipolletti, Río Negro
    Argentina
    October 30, 2024
    Official Selection
  • MARFEST · Festival Internacional de Cine de La Matanza
    La Matanza, Buenos Aires
    Argentina
    November 15, 2024
    Winner · Best Fantastic Film
  • 9º FICY · Festival Internacional Cine de las Yungas
    Tafí Viejo, Tucumán
    Argentina
    November 5, 2024
    Official Selection
  • 36º Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes de Aguilar de Campóo
    Aguilar de Campóo, Castilla y León
    Spain
    November 29, 2024
    Official Selection
  • 11º Festival Itinerante Cine En Mi Barrio
    Popayán
    Colombia
    November 13, 2024
    Official Selection
  • 14º Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes Ernesto Esteban Etchenique
    San Fernando, Buenos Aires
    Argentina
    November 30, 2024
    Official Selection
  • 2º FICBalsas · Festival Internacional de Cine del Balsas
    Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán
    Mexico
    December 11, 2024
    Official Selection
  • Cinergias, I Festival De Cine Iberoamericano - Edición Lanzamiento
    Madrid
    Spain
    December 23, 2024
    Official Selection
  • 5º Festival Cine Bajo la Luna
    Ranelagh, Buenos Aires
    Argentina
    December 7, 2024
    Official Selection
  • Argentina December 4, 2024
    Río Grande, Tierra del Fuego
    Argentina
    December 4, 2024
    Official Selection
  • Festival CinemaZERO 2024 “EX-MACHINA: visions of an automated future”
    Trento
    Italy
    November 28, 2024
    Winner · Muse Award (Ex-Machina: Visions of an Automated Future)
  • FAA! Festival Artístico Audiovisual
    El Bolsón, Río Negro
    Argentina
    November 28, 2024
    Official Selection
  • 1º T-AIFF · Türkiye International Artificial Intelligence Film Festival
    Istanbul
    December 9, 2024
    Turkish Premiere
    Mention of Honour (Experimentary Category)
  • Diospyros Film Festival
    Misilmeri, Palermo
    Italy
    December 19, 2024
    Official Selection
  • 3º Ti-Kreyollywood
    Paris
    France
    January 25, 2025
    Official Selection
  • 5º FOCAT Festival Online De Cine Amateur
    DF
    Mexico
    December 27, 2024
    Nominated for Best Animation Film
  • 7º Balkan Can Kino
    Athens
    Greece
    April 17, 2025
    Greek Premiere
    Official Selection
  • 37º Cinélatino · Rencontres de Toulouse
    Toulouse
    France
    March 21, 2025
    Official Selection (Animation Competition)
  • 2º Cine Zolhos: Exibição de Produções Independentes e Experimentais
    Sobral, Ceará
    Brazil
    February 6, 2025
    Official Selection
  • 4º Mostra NAVE - Cinema Experimental
    San Pablo
    Brazil
    February 14, 2025
    Official Selection
  • 7º FICIJ · Festival Internacional de Cortometrajes Infantil y Juvenil Cachinus de Cine de Cilleros
    Cilleros, Cáceres
    Spain
    April 3, 2025
    Official Selection
  • 1º Austin AI Film Festival
    Austin, Texas
    United States
    Semi-finalist
  • 6º Festival Internacional de Cine La Picasa
    Cinco Saltos, Río Negro
    Argentina
    March 13, 2025
    Official Selection
  • 3º Festival Internacional de Cine y Medio Ambiente Isla Verde
    Isla de la Juventud
    Cuba
    April 6, 2025
    Cuban Premiere
    Official Selection
  • 3º MICC · Mostra Internacional de Curtmetratges de Les Corts
    Barcelona
    Spain
    June 11, 2025
    Official Selection
  • 1º Ahmedabad International Film Festival
    Gujarat
    India
    April 23, 2025
    Indian Premiere
    Official Selection
  • 1º Concurso de Cortometrajes · Shnit Buenos Aires / Feria Kokoro
    Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires
    Argentina
    March 15, 2025
    Official Selection
  • 25º Festival Internacional De Cine De Lebu
    Arauco
    Chile
    April 22, 2025
    Chilean Premiere
    Official Selection
  • 1º VE.cine · Festival Internacional de Cine de Villa Elisa
    Villa Elisa, Buenos Aires
    Argentina
    April 25, 2025
    Official Selection
  • 25º 24FRAME Future Film Fest
    Modena
    Italy
    October 17, 2025
    Official Selection (Short Film Competition)
  • 21º International Festival of Red Cross and Health Films
    Varna
    Bulgaria
    June 12, 2025
    Bulgarian Premiere
    Official Selection
  • 24º Mostra Internacional de Curtmetratges Dr. Mabuse
    Barcelona
    Spain
    June 6, 2025
    Official Selection
  • 1º Neuro Masters AI Film Festival (2025) (Moscú, Rusia)
    Moscow
    Russian Federation
    June 6, 2025
    Russian Premiere
    Official Selection
  • 7º Festival Panòptic Mataró
    Barcelona
    Spain
    May 28, 2025
    Official Selection
  • 6º Festival Internacional Nieve Roja
    Río Negro
    Argentina
    June 12, 2025
    Official Selection
  • 10º Festival Internacional de Cinema i Paisatge
    Amposta
    Spain
    June 12, 2025
    Official Selection (mónANIMAT section)
  • 15º Festival Internacional de Cine de Santander — Picknic Film Festival 2024
    Santander
    Spain
    August 20, 2024
    Winner Best Video Creation Award
  • Gastro Film Fest
    Osijek
    Croatia
    July 13, 2024
    Croatian Premiere
    Winner - 1st Prize Best Short Film
  • Festival Internacional de Cinema i Paisatge
    Amposta
    Spain
    June 12, 2025
  • Absurd Film Festival
    Milan
    Italy
    Honorable Mention
  • Filmmaker Sessions Volume 8
  • The Galactic Imaginarium Film Festival
    Timisoara
    Romania
    September 12, 2025
    Romanian Premiere
  • Naija AI Film Festival
    Lagos
    Nigeria
    October 13, 2025
    Nigerian Premiere
    Winner · AI For Gender Equity
  • Digital Film Festival Istanbul
    Estambul
    October 18, 2025
  • Brooklyn SciFi Film Festival
    New York
    United States
    October 11, 2025
    Best AI-Generated Short Film
  • Touchstone Independent Film Festival
    Cocoa Beach
    United States
    Best AI Short
  • Las Flores Web3 Film Festival
    Ciudad de México
    Mexico
    October 14, 2025
    Honorable Mention
  • Berlin SciFi Film Festival
    Berlin
    Germany
    October 23, 2025
  • 25 GIFF | Genesis International Film Festival

    Quarter Finalist
  • BANGIFF - BangkokThai International Film Festival
    Bangkok
    Thailand
    October 24, 2025
    Thai Premiere
    Official Selection
  • Mostra de Cinema das Missões
    São Miguel das Missões.
    Brazil
    November 20, 2025
    Official Selection
  • ÍCARO Festival Internacional de Cine en Centroamérica
    Guatemala
    Guatemala
    November 22, 2025
    Guatemala Premiere
    Best International Experimental Short Film
  • ICONA [Animation Festival]
    Corfu
    Greece
    November 13, 2025
    Greece Premiere
    Official Selection
  • World Culture Festival
    Karachi
    Pakistan
    November 1, 2025
    Pakistan Premiere
    Official Selection
  • AIAZ International Short Film Festival
    Baku
    Azerbaijan
    November 15, 2025
    Azerbaijan Premiere
    Official Selection
  • AI Video Awards
    Breda
    Netherlands
    November 19, 2025
    Netherlands Premiere
    Official Selection
  • .artimu. International Experimental Film Festival
    Istanbul
    December 4, 2025
    Official Selection
  • Flick Film Festival
    Miami
    United States
    December 7, 2025
    Official Selection
  • Filmfest Schleswig-Holstein
    Kiel
    Germany
    March 20, 2026
    Finalist
  • Afrika AI Creativity Week & Awards
    Marrakesh
    Morocco
    April 7, 2026
    Finalist
Distribution Information
  • El Delirio Cine
    Distributor
    Country: Argentina
Director Biography - Jimena Aguilar

Jimena Aguilar is a director, screenwriter, playwright, musician, and producer. She has taken part in numerous projects for stage productions and films. “Finnish and Paranoid Dream”, an experimental animated short film directed by Aguilar, has been selected by over 80 festivals worldwide and has received awards in Argentina, Colombia, Croatia, Italy, Mexico, Spain and Turkey.
Her plays have been staged in Spain, Colombia, Peru, and Argentina, and published in Argentina and Spain.

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Director Statement

I wrote this script a few years ago, in part motivated by an investigation that I was undertaking for a stage play in which I was immersed at that time, and also due to the memory and in response to a song by David Byrne from 1985 called "In the future." I couldn't find a scenic form for this material and that was when I called Mantrixa, with whom we had already worked on the visuals of two stage productions that I directed, and I asked him if he was interested in generating some audiovisual material that would dialogue with the script I had wroten. So he told me that he was starting to experiment with the generation of images and videos using artificial intelligence, and that was when the integral concept of this proposal made complete sense and the crossover was simply wonderful.