Academy of Moving People & Image Graduate Screening
Academy of Moving People & Images had its first public graduate screening on Monday, January 20th, 2020 at Bio Rex. The event was organized with the collaboration of the Amos Rex Museum and Goethe-Institut Finnland.
Academy of Moving People & Images had its first public graduate screening on Monday, January 20th, 2020 at Bio Rex. The event was organized with the collaboration of the Amos Rex Museum and Goethe-Institut Finnland.
Academy of Moving People and Images is a platform in Helsinki for mobile people - those who have arrived in Finland for different reasons; be they immigrants, asylum seekers, students, or employees. AMPI’s aim is to design a new learning model and a sustainable pedagogical platform where people from different backgrounds are able to contribute to the film industry and initiate change.
The first year of the project was kicked off in January of 2019 with an Open Call. The selected participants started their studies with AMPI in April. In the span of the next 10 months, they went through many workshops and private mentorships in different fields of filmmaking such as scriptwriting, directing, lighting & cinematography, acting, sound recording & editing, film editing, creative producing, film & critical theory, etc. Each participant made a short film of their own and performed all the essential roles necessary to realize the other participants’ films.
Films:
Alku - Camille Navarro
Running Time: 13’
Finnish w/ English subtitles
Logline: A Pinay girl in her early 20s is a day away from one of the biggest tests of her life. To get through her fears and anxieties she turns to her close-knit group of friends.
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Remains - Roxana Sadvokassova
Running Time: 15’
Russian and Finnish w/ English subtitles
Logline: A young man returns to his hometown for mother’s funeral when he discovers his reckless older sister has just cremated the body thus taking his last chance to say a proper goodbye. Going along with sister’s plan while barely getting along with her proves to be a challenge.
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Leftovers - Shahi Derky
Running Time: 14’
English, Arabic, Finnish w/ English subtitles
Logline: A young Syrian woman settling down in Helsinki wants to buy a fridge. On the way to deliver it home, she encounters different people whose worlds intersect with hers.
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Paper Promises - Uzair Amjad
Running Time: 15’
English and Urdu w/ English subtitles
Logline: A Pakistani student in Helsinki starts working as a paperboy at night due to a financial situation, over the course of his work, he develops deeper associations with the doors that he delivers papers to.
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Dog Day - Jelica Jerinić
Running Time: 15’
Finnish and Serbian w/ English subtitles
Logline: A young and enthusiastic dog-sitter comes to work where she discovers that the dog is dead and the dog owner has a list of weird requests for her.
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About That - Taisya Ulyanova
Running Time: 11’
English w/ Finnish subtitles
Logline: Ann, a closeted queer girl dating the most out-and-proud bisexual of her high school, Collins, worries that her keeping their relationship a secret is putting a strain on it.
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Death In Paradise - Helena Aleksandrova
Running Time: 15’
English w/ Finnish subtitles
Logline: Nina is a young writer. She is offered to do a live translation for a sold-out theatre play. Everything seems to be going according to the schedule until a visitor from the past appears on stage. Unable to see the stage, Nina has to rely on her ears to understand what is actually happening inside the harrowing play.
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Fog - Aishe Vejdani
Running Time: 8’
English w/ Finnish subtitles
Logline: A young couple is spending their weekend at a cottage. During their stay, the wife sees a nightmare which evokes her fears in real life and challenges the relationship with her husband.
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Talk To Me, Dance With Me, Let Me Be - Saara Hasan
Running Time: 14’
Finnish w/ English subtitles
Logline: A day in the life of a young woman living with mental illness. We follow her as she tries to find balance in her life and relationships.
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Alonely - Fiona Musanga
Running Time: 9’
Finnish w/ English subtitles
Logline: A father is stuck with the painful memory of losing their only child, never having found them, he chooses to go on with his life.
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Leonarda: Flesh Ain’t Weak - Mariangela Pluchino
Running Time: 15’
Finnish w/ English subtitles
Logline: Leonarda, a vegan soap maker and serial killer from contemporary Helsinki. She makes soap out of the bodies of her victims. She would do anything to protect her only known and favourite child: Giuseppe. Based on the real story of Leonarda Cianciulli, a serial killer from southern Italy during the 30s, this thrill mixes documentary with dance, digital and analogue, text and images.