THE WOODCUTTER STORY
Lauded as a poet and the co-screenwriter of Juho Kuosmanen’s The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki, Mikko... View Article
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TRAIN WITHOUT A TIMETABLE
No SFR Yugoslav director had as often seen a film of his submitted for the Academy Award for Best Foreign... View Article
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THE REALM OF FORTUNE
Dionisio sleeps on the floor in front of a bed, his face bathed in a chain of light’s incessant red... View Article
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THE PLACE WITHOUT LIMITS
Years ago, brothel madame La Japonesa made a bet with the small town’s mayor and main landowner, Don Alejo: that... View Article
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THE KIEV TRIAL
Babi Yar. Context (2021) depicted the circumstances leading up to the massacre of more than 33 000 Ukrainian Jews. Partly the... 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 GRUMP: IN SEARCH OF AN ESCORT
Finnish folksy comedy proved it’s might once again, when The Grump: In Search of an Escort (2022), the third adaptation... 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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THE RISE AND FALL OF JACQUES TATI
After seeing Playtime (1967), François Truffaut wrote to Jacques Tati, “This is the first film about the Europe of 1968,... View Article
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THE NATURAL HISTORY OF DESTRUCTION
The horrors of World War II included extensive aerial bombardment. Almost all countries got their share of it, but major... View Article
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