In 2017, the Ukrainian Association in Finland, Suomi - Ukraina-silta ry with support of the Embassy of Ukraine in Finland and the Ukrainian State Film Agency hosted the Ukrainian Film Days.

This year, the Finnish audience watched the new Ukrainian fantasy movie The Stronghold, based on the book of Volodymyr Rutkivskyi. Kids and adults were excited by adventures of a boy Vitko traveled a thousand years into the past, to the times of Kyivan Rus. The conversation about the film with one of the leading actors of the movie Oleh Voloshchenko was a wonderful surprise for guests of the event.

Next day’s documentary film presented stories of 13 pupils of school #3 in a town Mykolaivka, Donetsk region, suffered from the Russian aggression against Ukraine in summer of 2014.