Arnold Cautious and The Happiness Stone is currently competing in the Teen Screen series at the prestigious Molodist film festival in Kiev, Ukraine. The Molodist Film Festival is one of the oldest film festivals in Eastern Europe. The festival focuses on the work of young and independent filmmakers. It presents short films, documentaries and feature films in a variety of formats, with the aim of promoting the art of cinema and providing a platform for new ideas and perspectives.

Kids Fest is a film festival for children in Belgrade, Serbia. The festival offers an opportunity to spend quality time in the cinema, not only with interesting films, but also with diverse, entertaining and educational cultural content.

The movie Arnold Cautious and the Happiness Stone directed by Arto Halonen continues to tour international film festivals around the world. The film is currently being screened at the Kids Fest film festival in Belgrade, Serbia. In late October, the film will compete in the Teen Screen category at the prestigious Molodist Film Festival in Kiev, Ukraine and in November at the Vienna International children’s Film Festival in Austria.

Arnold cautions and the happiness stone is film about the search for happiness, the power of imagination and friendship. The film has written by Arto Halonen together with Jukka Itkonen, who has also written the film’s song lyrics. The music was composed by Tuomas Kantelinen. The film is produced by Art Films and distributed in the Nordic countries by Nordisk Film and International distribution is by Media Luna of Germany.

Main cast: Maria Ylipää, Mikko Töyssy, Mikko Nousiainen, Tuija Ernamo, Emil Paloniemi and Luna Huotari.

TRAILER https://youtu.be/ff0t74m-haM

KIDS FESTIVAL https://kids-fest.com/

MOLODIST FILM FESTIVAL https://molodist.com/en

COMPETITION PROGRAMS IN MOLODIST https://molodist.com/en/article/kmkf-molodist-ogolosue-konkursni-programi

VIENNA INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’S FILM FESTIVAL https://www.kinderfilmfestival.at/en/the-festival/

https://ff-schlingel.de/en/

Festival | SCHLINGEL - Internationales Filmfestival (ff-schlingel.de)

https://www.eyeforfilm.co.uk/festivals/blacknights/2023/black-nights-2023-childrens-competition

Arnold Cautious and the Happiness Stone will screen on Sunday 23rd of June in Romania at Transilvania International Film Festival! 

Published: 11 October 2023

Arto Halonen's new movie Arnold Cautious and the Happiness Stone will be featured in the biggest movie festival in Baltic, Tallinn's Black Nights Film Festival PÖFF. The festival goers get to enjoy the movie in three screenings during November.

Earlier in the autumn Arnold Cautious and the happiness stone was featured in Schingel international Film Festival for children and young audience in Germany. Schingel is an annual film festival that showcases the newest films for children and youth. Director Arto Halonen and Emil Paloniemi who acts the leading child role were at the festival representing the movie.