Special Screenings Archives — Midnight Sun Film Festival

26.5.2025 Enna Kulo

Blinded by the Light

“What does he know about our world?” asks a Pakistani teenager in Luton, one of Britain’s cities in decline in... View Article

26.5.2025 Taika Marttinen

Blinded by the Light

“What does he know about our world?” asks a Pakistani teenager in Luton, one of Britain’s cities in decline in... View Article

23.5.2025 Anni Rossi

Wives

Anja Breien's breakthrough film Wives shamelessly took on the premise of John Cassavetes' film Husbands, made four years earlier, turning gender roles upside down in the spirit of the 70s.

23.5.2025 Anni Rossi

Vermiglio

In the secluded corners of the majestic mountain landscapes, the village of Vermiglio remains largely shielded from the volatile atmosphere of the Second World War.

23.5.2025 Enna Kulo

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

If not for The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, films like Splendor in the Grass (1961), La La Land (2016) and Past... View Article

23.5.2025 Anni Rossi

Pulp writer Lewis Fielding's (Michael Caine) wife Elizabeth (Glenda Jackson), vacationing alone in Baden-Baden, meets a drug courier and gigolo named Thomas (Helmut Berger, a Visconti amanuensis who effervescently exploits his real-life decadent image).

23.5.2025 Anni Rossi

The Last Laugh

The Last Laugh (1924) brought together the greatest German filmmakers of different fields from the golden age of silent film.

23.5.2025 Anni Rossi

The Passenger

After Blow Up (1966) and Zabriskie Point (1970), the indisputable master of philosophical long takes, Michelangelo Antonioni, continued his stylistic evolution in his road movie classic The Passenger (1975), his third film in English.

23.5.2025 Anni Rossi

The Quarterly Balance

A visitor to Sodankylä in 1988, Krzysztof Zanussi's crisis analysis, broadcast on Finnish television under the title "Välitilinpäätös" (Interim Report), continues this year's programme's shadow theme of unstable relationships.