Marianne and Juliane
Von Trotta’s powerful political drama brought her into the international public consciousness and solidified her position as a key director in the New German Cinema movement.
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New Finnish Short Films
Helmi Donner: The Lightning Rod (Finland, 2025, 21 min) Finland’s contribution to this year’s Cannes Film Festival can be found in... View Article
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McCabe and Mrs Miller
Following critic Robin Wood’s theory on Robert Altman, protagonist John McCabe (Warren Beatty) embarks on an endeavour that he thinks he can control.
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Long Good Thursday
The fourth instalment of the Grump series, based on the novels by Tuomas Kyrö, opens with a scene in which... View Article
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Kronos Kairos
Premiere at the Midnight Sun Film Festival! A timeless, stark, black-and-white landscape, ruthless to its inhabitant, sets the stage for... View Article
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Joe Strummer: The Future is Unwritten
In 1976 Joe Strummer (1952-2002) founded The Clash, one of the leading bands of the British punk movement. Before his tragic early death, the rock legend began working with Julien Temple on a biopic that would be released five years after his passing.
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KAVI esittää: Tämä on Suomi – maa vailla syntiä
The documentary style of semitruths and shock reportage started by Mondo Cane and culminated in Farewell Africa dominated the field... View Article
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Intercepted
There have been impressive films about the war in Ukraine, such as from director Sergei Loznitsa (guest of the festival... View Article
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Katya’s Autumn
In 1984 Aki Kaurismäki wrote: ”Mänttäri’s films have the troublesome effect of gnawing at us, sneering at us from behind... View Article
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Greed
Erich von Stroheim's Greed is probably, along with Orson Welles' The Magnificent Ambersons (1942), the most famous mutilated masterpiece in the history of cinema, an epic exploration of human nature that has been slashed from its original length of over nine hours to its current running time.
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