Monika Fagerholm is the winner of the 2025 Finlandia Award for ‘Best Fiction’. Her critically acclaimed novel Nowhere Land / Women in Revolt is praised by the jury with the following motivation:

“This year’s Finlandia Award goes to a profound and expansive novel that delves into writing, social currents, feminism, and family. The author writes like no one else; the sparkling, distinctive prose flows in a seductive spiral from beginning to end. The novel within the novel and its references are masterfully woven into the larger story, which I devour eagerly as I find myself captivated by every one of its characters.”

The Finlandia Award is Finland’s most prestigious literary award, presented by the Finnish Book Foundation. Since 1984 it has honored outstanding works by Finnish authors.

The second season of the acclaimed Finnish tv series The Man Who Died, adapted from Antti Tuomainen’s darkly humorous suspense novel of the same name, has been nominated for Finland’s ‘Best Drama of the Year 2025’.

Written by Brendan Foley and directed by Samuli Valkama, it stars Jussi Vatanen (Fallen Leaves) in a story that follows one man’s search for his own killer.

Tinna is a young artist who lost her hearing as a child after contracting meningitis. Twenty years later, she decides to get a cochlear implant, only to start hearing things that aren’t really there.

Steinn is an author whose career began with a bang but has since gone silent. When his banker wife suffers a severe burnout, he’s forced to shake off his writer’s block and get back to work. Searching for inspiration, he takes his family to an Airbnb in remote northern Iceland, where an odd relative lives. An impulsive decision he soon comes to regret.

Lena is a single mother raising a teenage daughter. As a teenager herself, she was raped. One night, while picking up her daughter from her first high school party, Lena encounters her rapist and, in an attempt to seek justice, she hits him with her car, leaving him to die in the street.

Although these three strangers have never met, they are hurtling toward one another on a fateful collision course that will change their lives forever.

A Fall From Grace is Yrsa Sigurdardóttir’s new stand-alone thriller.

Hugo Lilja och Pella Kågerman’s Swedish sci-fi feature Egghead Republic emerged as the winner of the Peroni Audience Award 2025 among the 135 films shown at the festival.

TV4 Rising Star nominee Ella Rae Rappaport plays the young club girl and aspiring illustrator Sonja, who’s hired by the hyped magazine Kalamazoo Herald to investigate rumors about centaurs in a futuristic, nuclear bombed Kazakhstan. The cast also includes Tyler Labine and Arvin Kananian.

A movie adaptation of Lisa Ridzén’s No.1 internationally bestselling debut When the Cranes Fly South, to be produced by B-reel Films, has been announced by Deadline. The award-winning and much acclaimed screenwriter Oskar Söderlund (Snabba Cash, Cry Wolf, The Breakthrough) is attached as writer.

Ulf Synnerholm, Managing Partner and Head of Drama at B-Reel Films, said the following about the novel to Deadline: “I cried and laughed my way through the book. It is about death somehow, but it’s also about warmth, and there is love, and there is the need for family, and there’s a fascination with what life could have been; all these universal questions that occupy most of us at various stages.”

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