MPI Residency

In 2021, Academy Moving People and Images (AMPI) and Finnish Film Affair (FFA) started a collaboration for a new residency programme. As part of the residency, FFA provides an 'industry residency scheme' for a filmmaker from AMPI alumni. This unique residency opportunity offers the participant a chance to develop industry-related skills, skills that a filmmaker needs once they start attending film markets and promoting their talent. The participant can follow FFA's programme, showcase the day, and network at the event. 

The selected filmmaker will also get visibility, such as a page dedicated to them in the Finnish Film Affair's printed catalogue and on the AMPI website:

MOVING PEOPLE & IMAGES RESIDENCY at FFA 2024

In 2021, Academy Moving People and Images (AMPI) and Finnish Film Affair (FFA) started a collaboration for a new residency programme. As part of the residency, FFA provides an ‘industry residency scheme’ for a filmmaker from AMPI alums. This unique residency opportunity offers the participant a chance to develop industry-related skills, skills that a filmmaker needs once they start attending film

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MOVING PEOPLE & IMAGES RESIDENCY at FFA 2023

In 2021, Academy Moving People and Images (AMPI) and Finnish Film Affair (FFA) started a collaboration for a new residency programme. As part of the residency, FFA provides an ‘industry residency scheme’ for a filmmaker from AMPI alums. This unique residency opportunity offers the participant a chance to develop industry-related skills, skills that a filmmaker needs once they start attending film markets and promoting their talent.

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MOVING PEOPLE & IMAGES RESIDENCY at FFA 2021

The Finnish Film Affair & Academy of Moving People and Images (AMPI) are delighted to announce a new residency programme. As part of the pilot, FFA is providing an industry residency scheme for a promising filmmaker from AMPI alumni. This unique residency opportunity offers the participant a chance to develop industry-related skills as well as to showcase their talent during the 10th Finnish Film Affair.

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MPI Award

Established in 2021 as a collaboration between AMPI and HIFF with the support of the Finnish Film Foundation, YLE, and AVEK, the Moving People and Images Award (MPI Award) aims to support and celebrate new voices in the Finnish film industry. The award aims to support and celebrate new voices in the Finnish film industry. It is given to a filmmaker whose work emphasizes diversity and inclusion. Starting in 2025, the Finnish Film Foundation will sponsor the award solely. The €1,500 cash prize is awarded to the film director and/or screenwriter to support the development of their next project.

The MPI Award includes the following each year:

  • A €1,500 cash prize supported by the Finnish Film Foundation.
  • Accreditation for the next R&A Festival.
  • Accreditation for the next FFA.
Moving People & Images Award 2025

The winner of 2025 MPI Award is ‘In My Hand‘ by Marja Helander & Liselotte Wajstedt. Synopsis of the film: ‘In My Hand’ tells the story of the Sámi struggle on both a personal and historical level. The main character is Niillas Somby, a Sámi who is facing a 21-year prison sentence for attempted sabotage.

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Moving People & Images Award 2024

The winner of MPI Award 2024 is ‘Fur Fur‘ by Kardo Shiwan. Synopsis of the film: Can fur have memory? The short film Fur Fur explores family memories, melancholy and intergenerational grief.

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Moving People & Images Award 2023

The winner of MPI Award 2023 is ‘Blush – An Extraordinary Voyage‘ by Iiti Yli-Harja. Synopsis of the film: For Fatu, a simple visit to the grocery store feels as nerve-racking as a lunar expedition: for the first time in his life, he’s wearing makeup in public.

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Moving People & Images Award 2022

The MPI Award Winner 2022 is ‘Boso mu ruovttoluotta‘ by Sunna Nousuniemi. Synopsis of the film: Documentary film about a young Sámi woman, Sunna, who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder caused by sexual violence and her recovery from it. There is no going back to her former self, but family and nurturing one’s family roots

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Moving People & Images Award 2021

The winner of MPI Award 2021 is ‘Space Is Quite a Lot of Things‘ by August Joensalo. Synopsis of the film: The social complexities of trans and non-binary ways of being are explored in this sweet and honest discussion between friends.

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AMPI & EFM

In 2021, the Academy of Moving People and Images (AMPI) and the Berlinale-European Film Market: Toolbox Programmes started their partnership.  

The filmmaker who is selected among AMPI alumni for the programme, after their attendance, shares their experience with the entire AMPI community by writing a reflection article and giving a presentation about the programme and their experience during the programme.

The European Film Market is one of the top three meeting places of the international film and media industries. Its close links with the Berlinale as a public film festival and defining characteristics of the Berlinale’s film market.

Under the guidance of consultants and coordinators, the Fiction Toolbox Programme is intended to endow fiction creatives with market intelligence, connections, and a kit of transferable business know-how. 

The participant receives accreditation to the European Film Market (EFM) and access to the Fiction ToolBox program, which consists of consultant meetings with feedback on projects and strategic planning for networking at the EFM, as well as organizational and logistical advice on the EFM from the coordinators. 

EFM-Toolbox Programmes is an immersive program of focused workshops with experienced tutors on the following topics: Development strategy: packaging your project, A to Z of Pitches, Funding initiatives for underrepresented film creatives, Sales & Distribution, Marketing & PR, Impact Producing, etc.

AMPI & EFM DOC TOOLBOX PROGRAM 2025

In 2021, the Academy of Moving People and Images (AMPI) and the Berlinale-European Film Market: Fiction Toolbox Programme started their partnership supported by the Goethe-Institut Finnland and as part of this collaboration AMPI alumna Jelica Jerenic participated the programme in 2022 . In 2023, the selected participant was Mariia Solodiankina, and the participation in EFM and the trip to

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AMPI & EFM FICTION TOOLBOX PROGRAM 2024

In 2021, the Academy of Moving People and Images (AMPI) and the Berlinale-European Film Market: Fiction Toolbox Programme started their partnership supported by the Goethe-Institut Finnland and as part of this collaboration AMPI alumna Jelica Jerenic participated the programme in 2022 . In 2023, the selected participant was Mariia Solodiankina, and the participation in EFM and the trip to

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AMPI & EFM FICTION TOOLBOX PROGRAM 2023

In 2021, the Academy of Moving People and Images (AMPI) and the Berlinale-European Film Market: Fiction Toolbox Programme started their partnership supported by the Goethe-Institut Finnland and as part of this collaboration AMPI alumna Jelica Jerenic participated the programme in 2022 . In 2023, the participation in EFM and the trip to Berlinale was supported by AVEK.  The recipient of the

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AMPI & EFM FICTION TOOLBOX PROGRAM 2021

In 2021, the Academy of Moving People and Images (AMPI) and the European Film Market: Fiction Toolbox Programme started their partnership supported by the Goethe-Institut Finnland. The European Film Market is one of the top three meeting places of the international film and media industries. Its close links with the Berlinale as a public film

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Analogue

The Academy of Moving People and Images co-organized several study trips to Vaasa with Filmverkstaden. During these trips, AMPI participants learned about working with analog.

Filmverkstaden: ANALOGUE FILM WORKSHOP / 2022

On April 20th,21st and 22nd. Academy of Moving People & Images co-organized a study trip to Vaasa to visit our collaborators at Filmverkstaden where our Third generation of AMPI participants learned about the process of working with analogue film.

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VAASA TRIP: ANALOGUE FILM WORKSHOP / 2021

On March 25th, 26th and 27th, Academy of Moving People & Images co-organized a study trip to Vaasa to visit our collaborators at Filmverkstaden where AMPI participants learned about the process of working with analogue. Britt Al-Busultan shared with the participants their knowledge of workflow, possibilities, equipment and basic 16mm filmmaking.

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Starting From Scratch: Analogue Film / 2019

On June 8th and 9th, Academy of Moving People & Images co-organized a study trip to Vaasa to visit our new collaborators at Filmverkstaden where AMPI participants learned about the process of working with analogue. Lasse Krister Vairio and Britt Al-Busultan shared with the participants their knowledge of workflow, possibilities, equipment and basic 16mm filmmaking followed by a film screening ‘Landscape at Large’ with films by Nazli Dincel, Alexandre Larose, Inger Lise Hansen, Emmanuel Lefrant, Malena Szlam.

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Masterclasses

The Academy of Moving People and Images organized several masterclasses in collaboration with Aalto University's Critical Cinema Lab, the Museum of Impossible Forms, and the Goethe-Institut Finnland.

A Masterclass by Nora Fingscheidt

On June 11th, with the collaboration of Goethe-Institut Finnland, the participants of the Academy of Moving People & Images took part in a masterclass by director Nora Fingscheidt. During the class, Nora showed us a few clips of her first feature film, System Crasher (Germany, 2019) which is being screened today at the Midnight Sun Film Festival in Sodankylä. She also talked about child acting and her experience in directing children.

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A Masterclass by Heiny Srour

Museum of Impossible Forms in collaboration with Academy of Moving People and Images and Aalto University/ Critical Cinema Lab warmly welcomes filmmaker Heiny Srour to Helsinki. Heiny Srour (1945) is one of the important female filmmakers in the Third Cinema movement of the 70s

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Heiny Srour Film Public Lecture

Museum of Impossible Forms in collaboration with Academy of Moving People & Images and Aalto University/Critical Cinema Lab, warmly welcomes filmmaker Heiny Srour, one of the important female filmmakers in the Third Cinema movement of the 70s, to screen and discuss her seminal film ‘The Hour of Liberation Has Arrived’.

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