Helmet Film Challenge 2024

The Film Challenge invites and challenges you to broaden your horizons and to look for new experiences on film: the classics, cult favorites – or perhaps, the films that you have been meaning to watch for a long time.

The Film Challenge is a playful and joyful watching project where you choose films to watch from the list of 50 different subjects. Anyone can take part. You can proceed at your own pace or you can follow the given order week by week. You can re-watch your favorite film, or you can step out of your comfort zone and exposure yourself to something new and unfamiliar – it’s up to you!

The Film Challenge is about sharing. It’s more fun to tackle the watching project with other people and you are heartily encouraged to ask your friends to join the Helmet Film Challenge Facebook group where you can talk about the most intense, bizarre, and gripping films you watch during the year. Mind you, the discussions are mostly in Finnish, but you can also start one in English.

Having problems of finding suitable films for the challenge? Go visit your library or check the Film Challenge Facebook group. The library staff or other participants will help you.

Let the movies move you – take up the Film Challenge!

Helmet Film Challenge 2024 

  1. A film released in 1984 
  2. A film set in a school
  3. A film featuring horseback riding
  4. A film where someone blows their nose
  5. A film featuring handicrafts
  6. A Finnish film based on a Finnish book
  7. A film where people sing together
  8. A film where someone has a distinctive hairstyle
  9. A film where someone gets shot in the leg
  10.  A film where people hang out at a bar
  11. A film where someone gives up alcohol
  12. A film featuring renovation
  13. A film set in Israel or Palestine
  14. A film depicting the working class
  15. A film featuring actor Julian Sands
  16. A film that has caused offense
  17. A film directed by Renny Harlin
  18. A film by a director who has visited Finland
  19. A film whose music was composed by a woman
  20. A film set in Australia
  21. A film featuring an actor born in 1924
  22. A film set in a totalitarian society
  23. A film featuring a fox 
  24. A film where people are in a fake relationship
  25. A film featuring a samurai
  26. A film featuring a time passes montage
  27. A film featuring a food fight or an eating contest
  28. A film featuring a natural disaster
  29. A film by a director who died in the 2020s
  30. A film featuring a main character with a tattoo
  31. A film featuring a chase
  32. A film featuring a deity
  33. A film featuring a president, prime minister or other political influencer
  34. A film where people do science
  35. A film featuring strong female characters
  36. A film where someone makes a blood oath
  37. A film where someone goes from rags to riches
  38. A film featuring spectacular stunts
  39. A film where someone gives a motivational speech
  40. A film where someone does aerobics
  41. A film featuring a skeleton
  42. A film with a premise that scares you 
  43. A film where someone dresses in leather
  44. A film where someone looks up at the starry sky
  45. A film with no human characters on the poster
  46. A film that has won the European Film Award for Best Film
  47. A film with no violence
  48. A film featuring Father Christmas
  49. A film recommended by library staff
  50. A film released in 2024

A printable version of the film challenge (PDF) 

Facebook group (discussion mostly in Finnish) 

Materials for libraries