WINTER BOY
There is a knock on the door of the dormitory in the middle of the night, which wakes up teenager... View Article
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TORI AND LOKITA
The many films of the illustrious career of brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, who captured Sodankylä in 2005 with their... View Article
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THE ETERNAL DAUGHTER
Director Joanna Hogg has captivated festival audiences around the world – including in Sodankylä last summer – with her autobiographical... View Article
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THE SHADOWLESS TOWER
When many cinemagoers don’t know that much more about contemporary Chinese cinema than the socially insightful works of the always... View Article
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SMOKE SAUNA SISTERHOOD
The UNESCO list of intangible cultural heritage includes not only Finnish sauna culture, but also the smoke sauna tradition of... View Article
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SAINT OMER
Young writer Rama travels to the small village of Saint Omer to observe the trial of a young mother who drowned her child. In... View Article
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THE BLUE CAFTAN
Moroccan director-screenwriter Maryam Touzani’s second feature film is a gentle piece of Arabic-language storytelling. A sensual melodrama by three skilled... View Article
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OKIKU AND THE WORLD
Japan, 1858: Yasuke and Chunji work their way through the lower-class tenement housing complexes of Edo (nowadays Tōkyō) – the... View Article
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OTHER PEOPLE’S CHILDREN
The conventional story in romantic comedies usually regards the triumph of love over challenges, and the film often ends before... View Article
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LEONORA ADDIO
One of Paolo (in Sodankylä in 2000) and Vittorio Taviani’s most notable directorial works, Chaos (1984), was based on the... View Article
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