Matti Harju
Matti HARJU (1978, Finland) studied an MA in Directing Fiction at the National Film and Television School (UK) and received an MFA from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts. He has made several short films that have screened at IFFR, as well as at Locarno, Oberhausen and Clermont-Ferrand. Natura, selected for IFFR 2023, was his feature-length debut. Nox (IFFR 2026) is his second feature film.
Filmography
Mies etsii miestä/Man Seeking Man (2004, short), One in Four (2008, short), Afrikka/Africa (2011, short), El Centro (2021, short), Born to Feel (2021, short), Kolme päivää sadetta/Three Days of Rain (2021, short), Natura (2023), Ekstaasi/Ecstasy (2023, short), Nox (2026)
More info: Matti Harju
Matti Harju at IFFR
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Natura
Matti Harju | 68' | Finland | World premiere
An unsettling mystery about desperation and class divisions in the age of digital capitalism. -
Mies etsii miestä
Matti Harju | 12' | Finland | -
Sober family drama about father and son who meet in an unexpected way some years later. -
Africa
Matti Harju | 9' | Finland | World premiere
Young Finnish filmmaker Harju’s disturbing, raw film gets up close to a psychotic man. We don’t all live in the same reality.
