Taiwan–Finland Film Festival

11–12 Sept 2026 · Kino K13

Eyes Across Seas puts Taiwanese and Finnish short films in dialogue for two days at Kino K13 in Katajanokka. Five programmes and seventeen shorts about memory, roots, death and what to hold on to. Admission is free and no reservation is needed; the auditorium seats 150.

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Programme day by day

A historical timetable has not been retained for this festival.

Fri 11 Sept

Sat 12 Sept

Programmes

Programme A In Transit

Three films about people on their way somewhere, between countries, languages and stages of life.

Three Things I Learned in France我在法國學到的三件事
Te-Gao Hong · Taiwan/France 2026 · 15 min
A documentary born in an artist residency: three things the director learned in France.
28 Days LeftTJ28
Yasmin Najjar · Finland 2026 · 24 min
Amani, a Palestinian-Finnish conscript in the army medical corps, learns mid-exercise of a crisis in her father's homeland. Selected for La Cinef at Cannes.
Iin Marlina莉娜
Chu Jhih-jie · Taiwan 2024 · 44 min
Marlina, an Indonesian caregiver, looked after the director's grandfather until his death. With her contract ending, the grandmother asks her to stay.

Programme B Things We Carry

Four personal documentaries about what we carry with us: memories, family, and earlier versions of ourselves.

Is this now the time I should let you go?
Tsai Yi-chin · Belgium/Taiwan/Finland/Portugal 2023 · 9 min
An experimental animated diary about the director's father, thirteen years after his death.
Forever With Me
Film Your Self自我虛訪
Chien Chen-en · Taiwan 2024 · 9 min
On the eve of turning twenty, a young woman interrogates different versions of herself on camera.
Memories of Lin's Family風乾
Lin Ji-heng · Taiwan 2025 · 36 min
Conversations with the filmmaker's grandmother about family memory and the stories nobody told.

Programme C Roots and Routes

Four films about where we come from and where we are headed: homeland, mother tongue, and where a child will grow up.

MAMU
Aephie Huimi Chen · Taiwan/United Kingdom 2024 · 15 min
An Amis man who raised his daughter alone in London begins, as Alzheimer's advances, to hear the call of his homeland.
Under Two SkiesJuuret on
Suvi West & Anssi Kömi · Finland 2017 · 12 min
A Sámi filmmaker, pregnant in Helsinki, longs to move back north, while her partner does not feel at home there.
The Mother's Voice母語
Kagaw Omin (Nitaya Lan) · Taiwan 2025 · 16 min
An experimental documentary about a mother who speaks Thai, Mandarin and Yunnanese.
Toward a Distant Dream

Programme D After Life

Three documentaries about death and what remains after it: bodies, memories and questions.

Relife百夜縫生
Hsueh Lo-yi & Huang Sheng-chun · Taiwan 2022 · 29 min
A veteran restorer of the dead makes damaged bodies whole again for grieving families.
Bright White Light
Eesu Lehtola & Henna Välkky · Finland 2024 · 13 min
An animated documentary on five near-death experiences, told through the real audio recordings.
Where'd My Brother Go?哥哥死後去了哪裡
Chen Jun-wei · Taiwan 2025 · 30 min
Ten years after his brother's death, the director visits mediums and temples because his parents disagree about where his brother went.

Programme E Fault Lines

Three films about faith, fathers, and what to hold on to and what to let go of.

A Prayer為你禱告
Te-Gao Hong · Taiwan 2024 · 26 min
A filmmaker fresh out of a youth shelter and adrift in his Christian faith films his friend, who has turned to Satanism.
Ashes薄荷涼菸
Lee Chia-hua · Taiwan 2024 · 20 min
A father whose daughter died in a car crash has sworn to kill the driver on the day of his release, until the man's confession makes him hesitate.
Wanha Markku
Markus Toivo · Finland 2023 · 61 min
The filmmaker returns to his unfinished childhood home to build an iron gate with his father Markku, a peacekeeping veteran who left the family for eight years. Main prize at Tampere Film Festival 2023.