The Witness
Scriptwriter-director Nader Saeivar is known for his collaboration with Iranian film luminary Jafar Panah, who has also visited Sodankylä. Panah... View Article
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Visiting Hours
Two women from vastly different walks of life meet in a prison in Bordeaux, both there to visit their incarcerated... View Article
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The Seats of the Alcazar
Guy Moscardo and Jeanne Cavalero fall in love. But what at other times and places would be a simple affair... View Article
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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.
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The New Year That Never Came
”Romania apparently only produces good films”, stated film critic Peter von Bagh once when commenting on the country’s festival entries.... View Article
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The Mohican
France’s largest island with its 300 000 inhabitants, Corsica, serves as the conflicted setting in Frédéric Farrucci’s second full-length feature.... View Article
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The Peacock’s Paradise
Italian director Laura Bispuri’s (b. 1977) third feature film takes place on the outskirts of Rome in the cold of... View Article
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The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
Based on Giorgio Bassani's autobiographical 1962 novel of the same name, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis tells the story of an affluent Jewish family living in Ferrara at the time of the rise of fascism.
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Stranger by the Lake
Guiraudie’s Stranger by the Lake is one of the best films of 2013, even though its distribution has mostly been... View Article
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That Old Dream That Moves
At the Cannes Film Festival in 2001 Jean-Luc Godard praised three directors: Samira Makhmalbaf, Aki Kaurismäki, and Alain Guiraudie, whose... View Article
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