Join us for a short films screening in Kunstnerforbundet on Thursday June 25, 17:00-19:00. The screening is followed by a talk featuring Ubuntu Film Club and artist Nadra Hassan.
The event is part of the June Exhibition 2026: Shifting Coordinates.
Short films curated by Ubuntu Film Club:
Khadar Ayderus Ahmed, ‘The Night Thief’ (2017, 16 min)
A Somali man's car starts to disappear mysteriously at night. When he decides to catch the thief, things take an unexpected turn.
Fiona Musanga, ‘Don’t Worry’ (2020, 5 min)
A young Black woman struggles with an alcohol addiction and an enabling lover.
Ima Iduozee, ‘Crown’ (2025, 4 min)
In the heart of Helsinki, Afro hair becomes the thread that weaves together rich traditions and stories of community, heritage, and the art of hair-styling.
After the short films screening, there will be a talk featuring Ubuntu Film Club, represented by Alice Mutoni and Fiona Musanga, in conversation with artist Nadra Hassan.
The screening takes place in the exhibition space, and the talk will be held in English. The event is free and open for all, no pre-registration needed.
This event is part of the June Exhibition 2026: Shifting Coordinates, a month-long institutional takeover transforming Kunstnerforbundet into a discursive platform centering Black Nordic artistic production across visual art, writing, film, and workshops. Shifting Coordinates is curated by the collective Peer Review, a collective platform for cultural analysis across Black visual culture for and by Africans and its diaspora in Oslo, established in 2024. Read more about the exhibition here.
Shifting Coordinates has received support from the Norwegian Visual Artists Fund (BKV), The City of Oslo, Balansekunst – Balansepotten, The Finnish-Norwegian Cultural Institute (FINNO), The Savings Bank Foundation DNB, Talent Norway, and the Fritt Ord Foundation.
Top photo: Still from Ima Iduozee’s short film Crown
The exhibition’s film programme and the selection of short films for this event are curated by Ubuntu Film Club. Established in 2019, Ubuntu Film Club is a film club that hosts monthly screenings at different venues all around Helsinki, Finland. Their motto is ‘Expanding narratives with a twist of fun’. Ubuntu Film Club organizes film screenings in order to explore different societal topics, often discussed after the screenings in a panel discussion with an expert.
Alice Mutoni is a cultural curator and the co-founder of Ubuntu Film Club, a Helsinki-based collective aiming to expand narratives with a twist of fun through film screenings. The name Ubuntu derives from the Kinyarwanda language, which translates to ‘humanity’ and refers to the notion of being through others: I am because you are. This philosophy has informed her work throughout the years, leading to her current studies in Sustainable Business, bridging her passion(s) for culture and community impact.
Fiona Musanga is a Rwandan visual artist, filmmaker, and rapper currently based in Helsinki, Finland. After writing, directing, and producing two short films, titled ‘Don’t Worry’ and ‘Alonely,’ she shifted her focus to music. In 2025, she independently released her first EP and in 2026 started working on her debut album. She also wrote an autobiographical collection of essays, which was published in 2022. Musanga is the co-founder of Ubuntu Film Club.
Nadra Hassan (b. 1995, Afmadow, Somalia) is a Norway-based filmmaker currently studying at Filmkunstskolen i Kabelvåg in the Lofoten archipelago in Northern Norway. Working primarily with experimental film, she approaches moving image as an artistic research practice through which questions of heritage, faith, and situated belonging are materially and temporally negotiated. Her practice investigates the relational space between Somali cultural memory and Islamic epistemology within contemporary Nordic contexts. For Hassan, film becomes both a method and a site for examining how identity is constructed, fragmented, and reassembled across time and geographies. Her work has been exhibited at the Arctic Moving Images & Film Festival (AMIFF) in Harstad (2024). Beyond production, Hassan engages in curatorial and pedagogical formats, programming public screenings in collaboration with Palestinakomiteen Lofoten (The Palestinian Committee in Lofoten), and contributing to student-led exhibitions in Kabelvåg (Norway).
Ima Iduozee is an award-winning film and TV director based in Helsinki, Finland. His debut TV-series, ‘Sneakermania’ (2026), a coming-of-age drama-comedy commissioned by the Finnish National Broadcaster, premiered in spring 2026 and was featured in Variety with an exclusive first look interview. The series was selected to compete in the short-form category at Canneseries. Iduozee’s short film ‘After We’re Gone’ (2022) premiered internationally at the San Francisco International Film Festival, and ‘Crown’ (2025) screened at the BAFTA-qualifying Bolton International Film Festival. He has directed commercial work for clients including OnePlus, Marimekko, Kyrö Distillery Company, Helsinki International Film Festival, and EMPAC New York. Before directing, Iduozee worked as an actor and also choreographed for leading theatres, including Stockholm City Theatre, the Finnish National Opera, and the Finnish National Theatre, and created the choreography for Finland’s first Netflix series, ‘Dance Brothers’ (2022). In 2023, Iduozee was named Artist of the Year by the city of Helsinki. He’s currently writing his debut feature, ‘The Happiest Nation In The World.’
Khadar Ayderus Ahmed (b. 1981, Mogadishu, Somalia) is a Finnish-Somali director and writer. At the age of 16, he moved to Finland as a refugee with his family. In 2008, he wrote the script for the award-winning short film ‘Citizens’ directed by Juho Kuosmanen, for which he also served as second assistant director. Then in 2014, he directed his first short, ‘Me ei vietetä joulua,’ which received critical acclaim. He later directed two more shorts: ‘Yövaras’ (2017) and ‘The Killing of Čáhcerávga’ (2018), the latter as part of the Miracle Workers Collective. In 2021, Ahmed directed his first feature film ‘The Gravedigger’s Wife’ (Guled & Nasra). The film premiered in July 2021 in the Critics’ Week section at the 74th Cannes Film Festival, where it was nominated for the Critics’ Week Grand Prize and Caméra d’Or. The film received wide critical acclaim and screened in multiple film festivals, including FESPACO where it won the Golden Stallion of Yennenga, the festival’s top prize. The film was also nominated for the Grand-Prix Award under the International Competition at the Kyiv International Short Film Festival. The same year, he was nominated for the Amplify Voices Award at the Toronto International Film Festival. The film became the first Somali submission for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film.
