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Nomad with Otto Kylmälä

Design Museum

part of a series on Nomad

About the speaker

Otto Kylmälä is a Finnish writer-director-producer, curator and critic who lived nine years abroad in the Czech Republic, India, Lithuania and the UK, before settling in Helsinki.

His films, commercials and music videos have been awarded in Finland and abroad. His film as a producer, The Moonshiners (2017) was nominated for a Jussi award for the best short film of the year. He is the co-founder and artistic director of Loud Silents Festival and for three years he was artistic director of the Oulu Music Video Festival.

Over the years he has served in international juries, curated screenings for film festivals and made Francis Ford Coppola cry. Currently he is adapting two novels into films and curating Kino Regina’s cinematheque program.

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Additional details

We´re a morning lecture series for Helsinki´s creative community that also take place in 244 cities around the world. We continue to strive to connect our audience with heard and yet-to-be heard voices that make Helsinki creative, beautiful and diverse.

Join us at our face-to-face event Friday 29.8.2025 at 8:15 am for the theme of Nomad

Agenda for the morning:

8.15 am doors open & Breakfast is served

9:00 am Talk by Otto Kylmälä

10:00 am We wish you great and inspirational day!

Event accessibility: Event is held at Helsinki Design Museum. Entrance for wheelchairs and prams from Ullanlinnankatu street. Design Museum has an obstacle-free lift, and a wheelchair-accessible toilet on the basement level (floor K).