Rosso
Excepting maybe Renny Harlin and Dome Karukoski, Mika Kaurismäki is Finland’s most international film director. Even his first feature-length film... View Article
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Lumiere! The Adventure Continues
Nine years ago, Thierry Frémaux (guest of the festival in 2001) made the indisputably fascinating documentary Lumière! about the short... View Article
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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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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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Filmlovers!
We honour the 130-year anniversary of film not only by documenting its origins through the Lumière brothers, but also by... View Article
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Every Note You Play
Mika Kaurismäki’s most recent film in many ways marks a return to his roots. After completing his film studies in... View Article
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Coming Up Roses
The Rex has seen decidedly better days. But so has all of Wales – make that: Great Britain.
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Cast of Shadows
Robert J. Flaherty is considered the father of documentary cinema, but he is also the great grandfather of Finnish experimental filmmaker Sami van Ingen.
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At the Rovaniemi Fair
This ”monument of 1950’s Finnish Cinema” (according to Kari Uusitalo) turned a whole new page in the history of our... View Article
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