The annual Finn Filmnapok will take place for the 11th time in Budapest from the 16th to 20th of February. Last year's festival was held remotely online and this year we are looking forward to seeing the return of the audience to the cinema. The festival is once again held in Toldi Mozi in the heart of Budapest. The opening film for this year's festival will be Tove directed by Zaida Bergroth. The film is about the Finnish-Swedish artist and creator of the Moomins, Tove Jansson and her life in post-war Helsinki. One of the highlights of the festival is the film The Blind Man Who Did Not Want

We would like to thank all of our partners and everyone who has participated in our events this year, we look forward to meeting you at future events in 2022! Our office will be closed 23.12.2021–2.1.2022. FinnAgora wishes everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Anneli Temmes (Licentiate of Public Administration) will serve as the interim director of FinnAgora from 1 January to 30 April 2022. Eero Yrjö-Koskinen, the current director of the Institute, will be on leave and will return to his duties as director on 1 May 2022. Temmes was the director of FinnAgora in 2008-2009 so the job is familiar to her. She has previously worked for the Finnish Ministry of Finance and the Swedish municipal sector. For the past nine years, she has been the CEO of HAUS Finnish Institute of Public Management Ltd, a state-owned company that provides training for civil

On 3rd of December, the President of Finland awarded Mikko Lohikoski, the General Secretary of the FinnAgora Foundation, the Finnish honorary title Kanslianeuvos , based on a proposal from a committee chaired by Prime Minister Sanna Marin. During his career, Mikko Lohikoski has held many jobs and positions of trust and has excellent domestic and international networks. Lohikoski has served on the Board of the FinnAgora’s Foundation and as the Foundation's General Secretary since the foundation was established in 2002. FinnAgora warmly congratulates its General Secretary!

Edit Zgut, a Hungarian political scientist currently working at the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, is our latest guest at the Point Taken podcast series. Before joining the academic scene, she was an analyst at Political Capital Research Institute in Budapest and worked as a foreign policy journalist in various Hungarian media outlets, including the National News Agency. Besides her academic activities, she is also a Visegrad Insight fellow. FinnAgora’s director Eero Yrjö-Koskinen discusses with her about current affairs in Poland and Hungary. To listen to the interview in English,