Oulu Music Video Festival
As part of Oulu’s European Capital of Culture year, the festival will launch a new European Music Video Competition. The theme of the Oulu Music Video Festival this year is Hauntopolis.
The Festival presents hundreds of music videos, movies, documentaries and special screenings. In addition, the authors of the videos express their own views from different perspectives in some of the screenings. The best Finnish music videos and video makers are rewarded at the prestigious Pumpeli Gala.
Hauntopolis theme transforms Oulu into a temporary city of music videos and cinema, where eras, cultures, and aesthetic forms intersect. At the festival, unrealized futures haunt the present. What could the world have been like?
The festival organizes also live clubs and other music video related activities in local bars.
The artistic director of the festival is Joel Karppanen. The event is produced by the Oulu Music Video Festivals Association.
Below you can find the 2026 festival programme.
