Sing For Me Arja
Director Marko Talli’s latest documentary offers the audience a unique window into the multifaceted life of Arja Saijonmaa (b. 1944),... View Article
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Sisu: Road to Revenge
Director Jalmari Helander likes to twist solemn Finnish war dramas into spirited action genre pieces. First came Sisu (2023) which... View Article
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Smithereens
Homeless and drifting from one person’s sofa to another, Wren (Susan Berman) is obsessed with “fame for fame’s sake”, even... View Article
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Soumsoum, the Night of the Stars
The films of Chadian director Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, who made a memorable visit to the festival in 2018, have gained a... View Article
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Stella
From the “birthplace of tragedy” we get a distinctive variation of Carmen, which the future Zorba the Greek director Michael... View Article
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Svenska Filminstitutet: From the Archives
This selection of early films tries to recreate the spirit of programs from the period, as it mixes drama and... View Article
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The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Masculinity and femininity take extreme, even parodic and violent forms in this riotous Aussie classic. The main players make up... View Article
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The Beauty of Errors
After nearly twenty years, Jukka Kärkkäinen returns to Tero, a familiar figure from his documentary The Living Room of the... View Article
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The Conversation
Who watches the spies? asks The Conversation, an intimate spy drama directed by Francis Ford Coppola between his epic films.... View Article
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The Dream of Lieschen Mueller
Lieschen Müller is the epitome of FRG ordinariness: She lives in small, nondescript Dingskirchen, is an orphan and single, employed... View Article
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