Helmet Film Challenge 2026
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.
What is The Film Challenge?
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 2026
- A film featuring a vain film star
- A film about revenge on the wrong person
- A film released in 1966
- A film depicting a dying village or town
- A film featuring a cult
- A film adaptation of a book from the ‘Keltainen kirjasto’ series by Tammi Publishers
- A film featuring parkour
- A film featuring a fight with a machine
- A film about a tired hitman
- A film featuring an electrified dance floor
- A film where little boys have adventures
- A film starring Gene Hackman
- An impossibly bad film
- A princess film
- A whodunnit story
- A film featuring a beaver
- A director’s cut
- A film criticising the patriarchy
- A film featuring creations from Jim Henson’s Creature Shop
- A film exploring the use of force by the police
- A film featuring a Nazi in hiding
- A film featuring a stiff Englishman
- A Wuxia film
- A Queer Palm or Teddy Award winning film
- A film about dangling at heights
- A film featuring mutants
- A spaghetti western
- A film about a man-child
- A film about folklore
- A film with a brief appearance by Elvis
- A film where age does not matter
- A film with a hidden reference to another film
- A classic musical
- A folk horror film
- A film featuring a talisman or magic charm
- A film produced by Markus Selin
- A crime comedy
- A picturesque epoch
- A film set in an apocalyptic atmosphere
- A film featuring a string instrument player
- A brisk comedy about a politician
- A film featuring a compassionate nurse
- A sports documentary
- A film directed by David Lynch or a film that seems like it could be directed by David Lynch
- A film about going on a first date
- A film set in the French countryside
- A film starring Regina Linnanheimo
- A film featuring saving Christmas
- A film released in 2026
- A film recommended by library staff
A printable version of the film challenge 2026 (PDF)
Facebook group (discussion mostly in Finnish)
The Helmet Film Challenge in other languages
The Helmet Film Challenge in Finnish
The Helmet Film Challenge in Swedish