Outsider Art Festival x Espoo Ciné – Welcome Unwelcomes

The film programme of OAF is organised in collaboration with Espoo Ciné. This year’s short film screening offers a diverse selection of film: animation, performance and finally black comedy in black and white. Films will be screened on Tuesday 19th of August at Kino Tapiola and on Sunday 24th of August at Louhisali.

The screening starts with Kenyan-born Doreen Mwrigi’s beautiful animation that combines clay and paintings. Paula’s House (2024) is a growth story that represents the still rare Kenyan queer film. The awkwardness of meetings becomes art in Samra Šabanovic’s film I Need to Tell You Something (2022). Unwelcome (2024) directed by Tommi Kainulainen takes questions of being outsider and belonging to mythical levels. Organisation for experimental folk music Folk Extreme and Teatteri NEO have created and urban minimusical of the social struggles of Lemminkäinen, the reckless hero of Kalevala.

It is advisable to take a brake in-between other films and relax in the embrace of Jari Nordström’s sauna-themed film Suomen kova löylymies (2025). The mythological world continues in the film by young artists Haus & Nipsu, Silvanus (2024), in which a wild forest god Silvanus suffers from cutting and taming of the forest. Psydopia (2024) by Hannes Renvall and Litterator (2024) by Niklas Röholm lead the viewer from the forest to the often frustrating jungle of telecommunications and encounters and mismatches between human and artificial intelligence.

Kielet:
Paula's House: kikuju, englanti
I Need to Tell You Something: englanti
Enpä liene lempivieras: suomi
Suomen kova löylymies: ei puhetta
Silvanus: ei puhetta
Psydopia: englanti, suomi
Litterator: suomi