Age limit: 12
Duration: 1h 8min
Genre: drama, comedy, animation
Year: 2016-2024
Language: Finnish
Subtitles: English

Finnish Short Film Day organisers have curated a short film package “Bumps on the Highway of Life” for cinemas. The package contains five short films that depict the challenges we face in life with a humorous touch. Kino Aurora also screens our own addition “About Birds and Bees”, which is not seen anywhere else. Free entry.

Oh No, Lasse Falls!
Finland | 2023 | 19 min | S
Director: Risto-Pekka Blom
Language: Finnish, subtitles: English

Munich 1972 Summer Olympics. Everybody is expecting Lasse Virén to win the 10,000-metre run for Finland.

White Trash
Finland | 2023 | 15 min | S
Director: Teppo Airaksinen
Language: Finnish, subtitles: English

Pilvi, a single parent, receives an invitation to her childhood friend’s costume party. At the party, Pilvi realises that unlike her the others are successful. The situation triggers an identity crisis in Pilvi.

An Announcement
Finland | 2024 | 5 min | S
Director: Emma Louhivuori
Language: Finnish, subtitles: English

Miss Emma is looking for some new friends. Could you be one? The mailbox is open until the day Miss Emma dies.

Rise and Shine
Finland | 2024 | 6 min | K7
Director: Matti Luukko
No dialogue

Time to brush your teeth, set the alarm and hug the pillow! Tomorrow you can face the new day feeling fresh and well rested. But what does your body go through during your slumber?

Pena’s Special Hauling
Finland | 2024 | 12 min | S
Director: Anssi Kasitonni
Language: Finnish, subtitles: English

Pena has been driving a semi-truck for 50 years and that’s the way he wants it to be in the future as well. He has some slight memory issues but it is not going to stop him.

About Birds and Bees
Finland | 2016 | 11 min | K12
Director: J. J. Vanhanen
Language: Finnish, subtitles: English

Short film about teenagers, an accident and a trip to the apothecary.