About
NIGHT VISIONS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Night Visions International Film Festival is the biggest and the oldest festival in Finland to focus on fantasy, horror, science fiction and action cinema. In addition to fictional features, every festival lineup includes a selection of edgy documentaries and short films. With its two annual editions, Night Visions International Film Festival is also the biggest genre film festival in Scandinavia.
FACTS AND FIGURES
Founded in 1997
Total number of features in the lineup each year: 75-80
Total number of admissions per year: over 14 000
International focus in the lineup: in 2018 the Night Visions selection featured works from 29 different countries on 5 continents
Winner of The Cultural Achievement of the Year Award from the City of Helsinki in January 2013
NIGHT VISIONS AUDIENCE AWARD
The festival is non-competitive, but the audience gets to vote for the winner of the Night Visions Audience Award during the fall edition of the festival. All new feature films in the official selection are eligible for the award, and only the audience members present at the festival screenings are able to cast votes for the films.
PAST WINNERS
2008 EDEN LAKE (dir. James Watkins, United Kingdom)
2009 DEAD SNOW (dir. Tommy Wirkola, Norway)
2010 MACHETE (dir. Robert Rodriguez & Ethan Maniquis, USA)
2011 THE WOMAN (dir. Lucky McKee, USA)
2012 DREDD (dir. Pete Travis, United Kingdom)
2013 JODOROWSKY’S DUNE (dir. Frank Pavich, USA)
2014 WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS (dir. Jemaine Clement & Taika Waititi, New Zealand)
2015 SPANDEX SAPIENS (dir. Oskari Pastila, Finland)
2016 ARRIVAL (dir. Denis Villeneuve, USA)
2017 THE DISASTER ARTIST (2017, dir. James Franco, USA)
2018 UPGRADE (dir. Leigh Whannell, Australia)
2019 PARASITE (dir. Bong Joon-ho, South Korea)
2020 (the award was not presented)
2021 BEYOND THE INFINITE TWO MINUTES (dir. Junta Yamaguchi, Japan)
2022 DEADSTREAM (dir. Joseph Winter & Vanessa Winter, USA)
2023 RIVER (dir. Junta Yamaguchi, Japan)
CONTACT
festival (at) nightvisions.info