Ina Mikkola to Host the Pumpeli Awards – Plus New Program Additions and Schedule Updates

Familiar from television, radio, and social media, Golden Venla–winning journalist-director, non-fiction author and host Ina Mikkola will take the stage to host the thrilling culmination of the Oulu Music Video Festival – the Pumpeli Awards!

The Pumpeli Awards will honor the winners of both the 2025 Finnish Music Video Competition and the Nordic Music Video Competition. The evening, wrapped in mystery, will also feature a performance by a rising international musician.

The gala will take place on Saturday, August 24th at RioLive starting at 20:00.
Contrary to what is mentioned in the printed schedule, the gala runs until 23:00. The Pumpeli Awards is an 18+ event with licensed bar service. Tickets are available via Kulttuuritalo Valve’s box office, Oulu10 service points, www.ticketmaster.fi and affiliated outlets.

More Lynch!

The Oulu Music Video Festival presents an encore screening of David Lynch’s avant-garde musical Industrial Symphony No. 1: The Dream of the Brokenhearted, first shown during the Night of the Arts.

This unique work fuses music and theatre, starring Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern – the leads of Wild at Heart, which won the Palme d’Or in Cannes. They portray a separating couple whose heartbreak unfolds in a dreamlike world of haunting industrial stage imagery. With music composed by Angelo Badalamenti and vocals by Julee Cruise (the voice of Twin Peaks’ theme), the performance immerses audiences in a surreal nightmare of sound and vision. Originally staged as a live performance at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 1989, the recorded version has only rarely been shown publicly.

The film will be screened at Valvesali on Sunday, August 24th at 12:00. The ticket also grants entry to the following program, E–LEC-TRI-CI-TY! DAVID LYNCH SPECIAL, a compilation of Lynch’s music videos and commercials, shown immediately after Industrial Symphony No. 1 at 13:00.

Due to this addition, the Pumpeloidut 2025 screening on Sunday at noon will now take place at Studio at 12:00 (instead of Valvesali).

Please also note that the F*CK PATRIARCHY screening on Thursday, August 21st will now begin at 20:30.