FFN SHORTS 1: Call to action

Sweden, 2025
Regi: Bo Johan Sörensen

In 1980s Härnösand, a group of unaccompanied Eritrean boys faced mounting anti-refugee sentiment. When 17-year-old Sara founded the anti-racist movement "5i12," the town seemed ready for change — until she and her friend Sylvia were murdered by one of the refugees. After the tragedy, the town got shooked by burning crosses and attacks. Thirty years later, filmmaker Bo Johan Sörensen returns to his hometown to understand how it all went so terribly wrong.

Norway, 2025
Regi: Johannes Vang

This poetic film questions the very sustainability of combating climate change when green energy is pursued at the expense of traditional Sámi life and culture. It asks whether replacing one form of environmental destruction with another can truly be considered progress.

Finland, Sweden, 2025
Regi: Agnes Koskinen

On a summer day at her family's cottage in the Ostrobothnian archipelago, 18-year-old competitive swimmer Alicia meets Mira by chance. Mira embody a boundless freedom unburdened by expectations, instantly intoxicating Alicia. When she returns home, nothing feels the same. Driven by an unexplained longing, Alicia swims back across the bay in the middle of the night. As the night fades, she has to determine where she is heading in life.

Sweden, 2025
Regi: Patrik Eklund

Ulph Degerfors is plagued by a severe case of earworm as Rednex's "Cotton Eye Joe" relentlessly takes over his mind. He gradually spirals toward madness, finding that everything he experiences and hears becomes irrevocably tainted by the song. A new short film from the Swedish master of comedy, Patrik Eklund!