The Midnight Sun Film Festival was founded in 1986 by Finnish filmmakers, e.g. the Kaurism\u00e4ki brothers, and the Municipality of Sodankyl\u00e4. The village of Sodankyl\u00e4 is located in the heart of Finnish Lapland, some 120 kilometers above the Arctic Circle, where the sun doesn’t set at all in the summertime. The nature of Lapland and the nightless night provide the Midnight Sun Film Festival a setting no other festival can compete!<\/p>\n
The atmosphere of the Midnight Sun Film Festival is one of the most unique in the whole world: the most fascinating film directors around the world, up-and-coming talents, the international audience and the inhabitants of Sodankyl\u00e4 meet under the midnight sun in the relaxed and informal “spirit of Sodankyl\u00e4”. Without any formal restraints, the festival is best characterised by its pure love for cinema.<\/p>\n
Films are shown in four venues for 24 hours a day, and the actual time is easily forgotten as the sun shines as brightly at 4 AM as it does at 4 PM.<\/p>\n
The festival programme is an enticing combination of old and new. Timeless masterpieces of veteran filmmakers will be presented side by side with the most engrossing contemporary films. In the master class screenings leading film critics will provide their insight to cinema’s finest classics, and music films are given a new spin in the karaoke screenings. To top it all, the undisputed highlights of the festival are the glorious silent film concerts.<\/p>\n
The programme also includes new Finnish productions, films for children and premiere screenings; altogether about 100 feature films presented in over 120 screenings. To crown the cinematic celebration, every since its origin festival has hold morning discussions with the main guests. Who wouldn’t be interested in hearing which films the legendary directors would take with them to a desert island.<\/p>\n
Thanks to our guests throughout the years, the spirit of Sodankyl\u00e4 is well known around the world. Just to mention a few, the following persons have visited the Midnight Sun Film Festival:<\/p>\n
1986<\/strong>: Samuel Fuller, Jonathan Demme, Bertrand Tavernier, Jean-Pierre Gorin, Eduard Zahariev
\n1987<\/strong>: Michael Powell, Jacques Demy, Jim Jarmusch, D. A. Pennebaker, Juliet Berto, Thelma Schoonmaker, Stefan Jarl, Tom Luddy, Raymond Durgnat
\n1988<\/strong>: Monte Hellman, Paul Schrader, Du\u0161an Makavejev, Aleksei German, Krzysztof Zanussi, Ali \u00d6zgent\u00fcrk, Peter Wollen, Nils Gaup
\n1989<\/strong>: Paul Morrissey, Krzysztof Kie\u015blowski, Otar Ioseliani, John Berry, Vadim Abdra\u0161itov, Idrissa Ou\u00e9draogo, Andi Engel
\n1990<\/strong>: Richard Fleischer, Manoel de Oliveira, Ettore Scola, Jean-Pierre L\u00e9aud, Jo\u00e3o B\u00e9nard da Costa, Octavio Bezerra, Helle Ryslinge
\n1991<\/strong>: Andre de Toth, L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Benedek, Agn\u00e8s Varda, Chantal Akerman,Alberto Lattuada, Jean-Charles Tacchella,\u00a0 Enzo Serafin, \u00c9tienne Chatiliez, Adrian Johnston, Ville Salminen
\n1992<\/strong>: Roger Corman, Claude Chabrol, Jan Troell, Nikolai Dostal, Lone Scherfig, Dani\u00e8le Dubroux, Esko Salminen
\n1993<\/strong>: Joseph H. Lewis, Dino Risi, Chris Marker, Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Julio M\u00e9dem, G. Cabrera Infante, Elina Salo
\n1994<\/strong>: Robert Wise, Mario Monicelli, Luis Garc\u00eda Berlanga, Stanley Donen, John Sayles, Sara Driver, Anneli Sauli
\n1995<\/strong>: Robert Parrish, Agnieszka Holland, Victor Erice,\u00a0Maud Linder, Richard Price, Fri\u00f0rik \u00de\u00f3r Fri\u00f0riksson, Fred Keleman
\n1996<\/strong>: Jean Dr\u00e9ville, Claude Sautet, Robert Boyle, Doris D\u00f6rrie, Stefano Incerti, Nils Arden Oplev, \u00c5ke Lindman
\n1997<\/strong>: Gianni Amelio, Vincent Sherman, Jerzy Skolimowski, Istv\u00e1n Szab\u00f3, Costas Ferris, Herbert Achternbusch, Nicolas Winding Refn
\n1998<\/strong>: Youssef Chahine, Terry Gilliam, Chris Marker, Robby M\u00fcller, Stefan Jarl, Wim Wenders, Leonard Kastle, Anna Bonaiuto, Knut Erik Jensen, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Pirjo Honkasalo
\n1999<\/strong>: Edgardo Cozarinsky, Costa-Gavras, Francesco Rosi, Angela Winkler, Murali Nair, Gabriel Retes
\n2000<\/strong>: Bob Rafelson, Paolo Taviani, Ivan Passer, Shinji Aoyama, Jean Douchet
\n2001<\/strong>: Freddie Francis, Sergio Sollima, Jerry Schatzberg, Agn\u00e8s Jaoui, Jim Hoberman, Thierry Fr\u00e9maux
\n2002<\/strong>: Francis Ford Coppola, Mikl\u00f3s Jancs\u00f3, Fernando Solanas, Denys Arcand, Luce Vigo, Jan Cvitkovi\u010d
\n2003<\/strong>: Irvin Kershner, Emir Kusturica, Jean Rouch, Bent Hamer, Gy\u00f6rgy P\u00e1lfi, \u00c9milie Deleuze, Joachim Kr\u00f3l, Matti Kassila
\n2004<\/strong>: Val Guest, Nanni Moretti, Marlen Hutsijev, Wolfgang Becker, J\u00f6rn Donner, Alain Bergala, Michael Henry Wilson, J\u00f6rn Donner
\n2005<\/strong>: Roy Ward Baker, Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Ye\u015fim Ustao\u011flu, Juan Pablo Rebella & Pablo Stoll, Hans Weingartner, Pepe Danquart
\n2006<\/strong>: Gian Vittorio Baldi, Caroll Ballard, Andrei Smirnov, Jafar Panahi, Isabelle Stever, Mercedes \u00c1lvarez, Jasmine Trinca, Naum Kleiman
\n2007<\/strong>: Abbas Kiarostami, Claude Goretta, Vittorio De Seta, Amos Gitai, Elia Suleiman, Giuseppe Bertolucci, Pascale Ferran, Detlef Buck, Kadri K\u00f5usaar
\n2008<\/strong>: Milo\u0161 Forman, Andrei Kont\u0161alovski, Seymour Cassel, Nils Gaup, Veiko \u00d5unpuu, Lasse P\u00f6ysti
\n2009<\/strong>: John Boorman, Robert Gu\u00e9diguian, Fatih Akin, Samira Makhmalbaf, Sergei Dvortsevoi, Andreas Dresen, Markku Lehmuskallio & Anastasia Lapsui
\n2010<\/strong>: Pedro Costa, Terence Davies, Javier Rebollo, Pietro Marcello, Samuel Maoz, Pelin Esmer, David Robinson, Bernard Eisenschitz, Vesa-Matti Loiri
\n2011<\/strong>: Michael Chapman, Souleymane Ciss\u00e9, Atom Egoyan, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Denis C\u00f4t\u00e9, Athina Rachel Tsangari, Tony Palmer, Nick James
\n2012<\/strong>: Harriet Andersson, Alan Rudolph, Joe Dante,\u00a0 B\u00e9la Tarr, Taina Elg, Ruben \u00d6stlund, Tony Rayns, Foster Hirsch
\n2013<\/strong>: Philip Kaufman, Marco Bellocchio, Claire Denis, Christian Mungiu, Jan Troell, Peter Strickland, Gian Luca Farinelli
\n2014<\/strong>: Olivier Assayas, Pawe\u0142 Pawlikowski, Alice Rohrwacher, Katell Quill\u00e9v\u00e9r\u00e9, H\u00e9lier Cisterne, Samantha Fuller
\n2015<\/strong>: Mike Leigh, Nils Malmros, Christian Petzold, Whit Stillman, Miguel Gomes, Ma\u0142gorzata Szumowska
\n2016<\/strong>: Ji\u0159\u00ed Menzel, Bill Forsyth, Fernando Trueba, Jon\u00e1s Trueba, Dagur K\u00e1ri, Gianfranco Rosi, Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Strauss, Kirsti Wallasvaara
\n2017<\/strong>: Carlos Saura, Hanna Schygulla, Bertrand Bonello, Per Fly, Eija Pokkinen
\n2018<\/strong>: Barbet Schroeder, Bulle Ogier, Dominik Graf, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, Jos\u00e9 Luis Guer\u00edn, Olivier Assayas, Kristiina Halkola, Eero Melasniemi
\n2019<\/strong>: Fernando Meirelles, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Marzieh Meshkini, Arnaud Desplechin, Pernilla August, Kent Jones, Mark Jenkin, Johann Lurf, Nora Fingscheidt, Pirjo Honkasalo, Eeva Litmanen
\n2022<\/strong>: Nicolas Meyer, Ildik\u00f3 Enyedi, Mathieu Amalric, Karim A\u00efnouz, Lenny Abrahamson
\n2023:\u00a0<\/strong>Sergei Loznitsa, Mary Sweeney, Emmanuel Mouret, Alma P\u00f6ysti, Jussi Vatanen, Anna Hints, David Wagner
\n2024: <\/strong>Leos Carax, Alfonso Cuar\u00f3n, Alice Rohrwacher, Asli \u00d6zge, Dag Johan Haugerud, Adilkhan Jer\u017eanov, Michelangelo Frammartino, Virpi Suutari, Martti Suosalo, Pirkko H\u00e4m\u00e4l\u00e4inen, Katja Gaurilof, Oona Airola<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Midnight Sun Film Festival was founded in 1986 by Finnish filmmakers, e.g. the Kaurism\u00e4ki brothers, and the Municipality of Sodankyl\u00e4. The village of Sodankyl\u00e4 is located in the heart of Finnish Lapland, some 120 kilometers above the Arctic Circle, where the sun doesn’t set at all in the summertime. The nature of Lapland and… View Article<\/a>","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3227,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-280","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n