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707 articles available in total starting from 29/05/2002. Last article published on 18/04/2024.

A close friend of Jussi: Kaurismäki scores nine nominations for Le Havre

Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki’s Le Havre – Finland’s submission for the Oscars, which won the international critics’ FIPRESCI Award at Cannes – will be considered in nine categories, when...  

12/01/2012 | Awards | Finland

Pizza Desperata and other Finnish films about What We Do for Love

Ten years after his previous feature, Cyclomania (2001), Finnish director Simo Halinen has cast Peter Frankzén and Leea Klemola in his comeback feature, Pizza Desperata, which Liisa Penttilä will...  

06/01/2012 | Production | Finland

Santa Claus and his evil brother celebrate Christmas in Finland

While Finnish director Antti Haikala’s feature debut, Santa’s Magic Crystal, with the real Santa Claus and his evil twin brother Basil is now touring the Finnish theatres, the Finnish Film...  

12/12/2011 | Production | Finland/Lithuania

Le Havre

Masterful elegance, detached humour and subtle political engagement. The great forgotten one in the Cannes 2011 prize list.  

02/12/2011 | Films | Reviews

Interview: Aki Kaurismäki • Director

My characters, hopeless optimists

Le Havre describes a world of marginalised individuals who express great mutual solidarity and it even has an optimistic ending  

24/11/2011

Mäkelä's skyjacker takes Finnish fast lane for public funding

While Finnish director Aleksi Mäkelä's dramatic thriller Life for Sale, spends a fourth week in the local charts, the Finnish Film Foundation has chipped in €550,000 for his next project, The...  

15/11/2011 | Funding | Finland

54,022 for Love & Anarchy, Finnish Film Event on tour

For its 24th edition, which ended Sunday (Sept 25), Love & Anarchy-The Helsinki International Film Festival registered 54,022 admissions for its 10-day programme, adding 1,767 viewers for Finnish...  

28/09/2011 | Festivals | Finland

Oksanen’s Purge to shoot in Estonia

Finnish author Sofi Oksanen’s novel, Purge - which last year received the Nordic Council Literary Award, the European Book Prize 2010 and has been translated into 38 languages - is on its way to...  

16/09/2011 | Production | Finland

Kaurismäki's Le Havre shoeblack eyes a new client - Oscar

"I cannot help it - I start to be tender in my old age. The more sceptical and cynical I get, the softer my films are. I am even starting to like my characters," said 54-year-old Finnish director...  

15/09/2011 | Oscars 2012 | Finland

Helsinki’s Love & Anarchy now ready to Balkanize!

Unspooling between September 15-25, the 24th Helsinki International Film Festival: Love & Anarchy – Finland’s major film event – has added a Balkan series to its line-up: Balkanize! presents six...  

13/09/2011 | Festivals | Finland

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