Oulu Music Video Festival launches its first-ever international music video 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 until the beginning of June. Twelve videos will be selected to be screened at the festival, and the winner of the OMVF Nordic Music Video Competition will be awarded at the legendary OMVF awards gala with a prize designed by artist Irene Suosalo and a pair of Genelec 8351B SAM™ speakers valued at €8,000, provided by Genelec.

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

The Oulu Music Video Festival will take place from August 21st to 25th, 2025, in Oulu. In addition to the OMVF music video competition, the festival will feature curated music video and movie screenings, panel discussions, workshops, networking events, audiovisual after-parties, an art exhibit, and much more!

The entire program for the festival will be released later in the spring. Submissions for the Finnish Music Video Competition open in May.