DRIVING MUM
Veteran festivalgoers may remember Hilmar Oddsson from Iceland, a young man not yet thirty with blond hair, who presented his... View Article
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DEVIL BETWEEN THE LEGS
The nameless old man and his (Dante-evokingly cleped) wife Beatriz have spent so much time together in their age-worn apartment,... View Article
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CINÉMA LAIKA
Croatian film director Veljko Vidak recently spent more than a year in Karkkila, documenting step by step how a new... View Article
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BLUE NOTE
Also noticed abroad, Blue Note, Finnish-Bulgarian Pavel Andonov’s graduation film from the London Film School, took home three prizes from the Tampere... View Article
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BLUE JEAN
Georgia Oakley’s subtle but powerful debut Blue Jean takes us to Margaret Thatcher-led 1980s Great Britain, where societal prejudice forces... View Article
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BURRBALL
Over fifty years after its release, Burrball (Takiaispallo), directed by Veli-Matti Saikkonen and written by Kerttu-Kaarina Suosalmi, still feels modern. Some details or attitudes... View Article
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DIARY OF A FLEETING AFFAIR
The brilliant actors of slightly different generations, Sandrine Kiberlain and Vincent Macaigne, play the roles of Charlotte and Simon, two... View Article
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BUÑUEL: A SURREALIST FILMMAKER
What has happened to the reputation of Luis Buñuel (1900-1983), the Spanish master of surrealism? Should we be concerned, when... View Article
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BUBBLE
Bubble by Aleksi Salmenperä (Void, 2015) sheds light on one perspective of the post-puberty phase: what is it like to be a young girl caught in the... View Article
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BIS SPÄTER, ICH MUß MICH ERSCHIEßEN
Premiered on 16 March 1984, the German-Finnish collaboration Bis später, ich muß mich erschießen is an interesting outlier in the... View Article
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