The current crisis is severely affecting the cultural sector. Many artists and creatives whose work is project-based have lost months worth of income. Amongst the crisis, the mission of the Finnish Cultural and Academic Institutes remains unchanged. We exist to promote international mobility, visibility and collaboration of Finnish art, culture and science. That is why we are launching a new and fast progressing open call for Finnish and Finland-based artists and artist groups. TOGETHER ALONE - OPEN CALL The Institutes are seeking artistic proposals related to the following themes: state of

FinnAgora is following the regulations given by the Finnish Government regarding the Coronavirus outbreak. According to these rules public events and travelling should be avoided until the 31.5. Because of this many of FinnAgoras events are cancelled and to avoid unecessary risk of spreading or receiving the virus we will close our office for the time being. We will inform you when there will be changes in this situation. Our work continues planning autumn events, and you can reach us on email on info@finnagora.hu and firstname.lastname@finnagora.hu . We hope you stay safe!

The Hungarian government declared the country to be in a state of emergency the 11th of March. This means special regulations must be followed. These regulations do not affect FinnAgoras future events at the moment. The following regulations must be followed due to the state of emergency declaration: - People who arrive from the areas of the epidemic (China, Iran, Italy, South-Korea) will not be let into Hungary. Only Hungarian citizens may enter Hungary traveling from these areas and they will be put into quaranteen for 14 days. - Flights, buses and trains from Hungary to the areas mentioned

FinnAgora is proudly showing Finnish and Hungarian collaboration during Finn Filmnapok. Finnish and Hungarian students have collaborated and made short films just for the festival. The Hungarian students study at Budapest Metropolitan University. The short films are shown the 7 th of February at Premier Kultcafé at 16.00 . The event is free and we hope to see many there to show support for the future Finnish and Hungarian filmmakers. You can read more of the collaboration in Hungarian here: https://www.metropolitan.hu/csere-filmek-a-finn-filmnapokon?fbclid=

This years opening film at Finn Filmnapok is Aurora. Directed by Miia Tervon the movie has received 13 nominations in the Finnish movie awards Jussi. The film has been critically acclaimed and very popular with audiences both in Finland and abroad. The film tells the story of a young woman named Aurora. She works in a beauty salon and has plans of moving to Norway where there is more money to be made. Aurora has a difficult relationship with an alcoholic father and struggles with her own problems with alcohol. During one night at a hot-dog stand Aurora meets iranian asylum seeker Darian who