HELSINKI SHORT CUTS celebrates and promotes short films made by talented filmmakers from all over the world highlighting new and creative works of emerging filmmakers;

Main aim of the festival is to increase interest in short film format, create new audiences for short films and organize unique cinema experiences for festival's visitors;

We are here to give a voice for international filmmakers and bring their creative short films to wide audiences in Finland because we believe in the power of short films stories.

Festival shows short films and special film programmes;

HELSINKI SHORT CUTS is a developing international short film festival in Finland which will present more than 60 international short film productions of different styles and genres (fiction, animation, documentary and experiment) from all around the world to the Finnish audiences;

The whole event is designed to enlarge the scale of international short films presentations in Helsinki and Finland generally and bring the best of international short filmaking to Helsinki and Tampere audiences;

The festival is aiming to become an active multicultural and meeting cinema platform for audiences and filmakers in Helsinki focused on presentations of creative short film productions from all over the world;

We invite filmmakers and short films producers from Europe, Nordics and from around the world to submit their short films entries to our festival;

The festival aims to become a developing international and European cinema platform for professional short films of all styles in Helsinki with biggest diversity of presented countries (around 30-40 countries) in the official programmings of the festival underlining its educational and multicultural dimensions.

The planned programmings of this socially engaged film festival will touch different up-to-date social topics of educational character (film education) such as:

• Rights of minorities
• Education
• Films directed by women
• Gender equality
• Workers
• Multiculturalism
• Human rights
• Culture dialogue
• Migrations
• Emigrations
• Immigrations
• etc;

Awards & Prizes

"Best short film of HELSINKI SHORT CUTS"

Rules & Terms

All films under 30 min. in all genres will be considered;

Please upload a digital screener to FilmFreeway;

We accept short films productions of all genres (animation, fiction, documentary, experiment, music, dance) completed after 2020;

Eligible formats for screening copies of selected films to be screened during the festival is .MP4 or .MOV files ready for professional cinema screenings;

Screening copy must be in English or subtitled in English;

No screening fee for selected films;

By submitting the film, you agree to the screening of the film at the festival, if the film is selected into final programmings;

Only films submitted with properly paid and covered official entry fees will be considered for final programming selections;

All entry fees are non-refundable;