Kalevala: the Story of Kullervo
The Finnish national epic, the Kalevala, has inspired our country’s artists across all fields since its publication, but in the... View Article
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Kanal
Master director Andrzej Wajda’s (1926-2016) 1950’s war trilogy came to mark the international breakthrough of Polish cinema. Between A Generation... View Article
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La Pointe Courte
This Agnès Varda film is said to have kickstarted the French New Wave. It’s seen as having channeled Italian Neorealism... View Article
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Late Fame
Kent Jones, qualified in many ways in the art of cinema, visited Sodankylä in 2019, when we screened his fiction... View Article
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Le Havre
Having buried his dreams of a literary breakthrough, Marcel Marx (André Wilms) has withdrawn into voluntary exile in the port... View Article
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Life on Earth
Abderrahmane Sissako was responsible for the African contribution to the film series 2000, Seen By…, television channel ARTE’s project celebrating... View Article
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Light Pillar
In his debut feature film, Xú Zǎo uses animation and live action to invert our expectations about dreams and reality.... View Article
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Mad Bills to Pay (or Destiny, dile que no soy malo)
Youthful vigor, the chaos of family life, summer volleyball at the beach, and cramped urban living – Joel Alfonso Vargas’... View Article
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Making Mr. Right
Set against Miami’s sun-drenched pastel colours and Art Deco architecture, this retrofuturistic genre hybrid of science fiction and romantic comedy... View Article
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Metamorphosis
Transformation is central to animation. This is true of its storytelling, which can take a simple story, like a bear... View Article
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