Oulu Music Video Festival launches international competition

The oldest music video festival in the world, Oulu Music Video Festival, launches its first international competition series, the OMVF Nordic Music Video Competition, for the 2025 edition of the festival. The competition is open to directors living and working in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, the Faroe Islands, Greenland, and Åland.

Filmmakers can submit their videos via FilmFreeway.com/OMVF from 19th March to 31st May. Twelve videos will be selected to be screened at the festival, and the winner of the competition will be awarded at the legendary OMVF awards gala with a prize designed by artist Irene Suosalo and a pair of Genelec 1029 speakers valued at €8,000.

The competition is part of the Oulu 2026 European Capital of Culture program and will expand into a European competition in 2026.

Oulu Music Video Festival takes place on 21–25 August 2025. In addition to the Music Video Competition the festival offers curated music video and movie screenings, panel discussions, workshops, networking events, audiovisual after parties, an art exhibition and many other events.

The festival programme will be released later in the spring and submissions for the Finnish Music Video Competition open in May.

More information:
Executive Director Juhani Oivo
Oulu Music Festival 
www.omvf.net
+358 45 651 6596
juhani(at)omvf.net