Helmet Film Challenge 2025
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 2025
- A film featuring the change of the year
- A film featuring a snake
- A film made in 1995
- A film featuring a hilarious one-liner
- A film featuring an unusual colour palette
- A film set in Finnish Lapland
- An Estonian film
- A film shot by a woman
- A film featuring a Bollywood scene
- A film lasting a maximum of 90 minutes
- A film that has won the BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language
- A film that has received an award for its staging
- A film featuring a working animal
- A film starring Maggie Smith
- A film featuring a person with an allergy
- A film taking place in the desert
- A film featuring AI that threatens humanity
- A film where an idyll is shattered
- A film featuring a castle or manor
- A film featuring an eccentric person
- A British comedy
- A film featuring a girl or a woman playing a sport
- A film about colonialism
- A film featuring people having carefree fun
- A film featuring someone whose memory is failing
- A film featuring an alternate history
- A German film that was released before 1939
- A Finnish nature documentary
- A film featuring an investigation into a missing person
- A film featuring an indigenous person
- A film that lies to the audience
- A courtroom drama
- A film about befriending a robot
- A film featuring a dream
- A film about refugees
- A satire about the art world
- A film featuring a nun or a monk
- A film featuring a person spying on their neighbour
- A film that takes place in a hospital
- A horror musical
- A film featuring a soulless company or business
- A queer film
- A Studio Ghibli film
- A film featuring a person’s head coming off
- A film featuring an evil spirit
- A film based on a comic book
- A film featuring several generations
- A film where it snows
- A film recommended by the staff
- A film released in 2025
A printable version of the film challenge (PDF)
Facebook group (discussion mostly in Finnish)