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

With Vares on track, Solar Films controls 78% of local admissions

While Finland’s most popular private investigator, Jussi Valtteri Vares, is looking into The Garter Snake, directed by Lauri Törhönen – the third thriller in the franchise has taken 75,971...  

08/09/2011 | Admissions | Finland

Kaurismäki up for Czech celebration (but not willingly)

“How does it feel to be a celebrated star director? It is even worse than being unknown. In any case, everyone else may be celebrating, but not I,” explained Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki, when...  

22/07/2011 | Festivals | Finland

Finnish private eye ready for third case this year

Finland’s most popular private investigator, Jussi Valtteri Vares – a hard-boiled PI in his forties with only two weaknesses: cold beer and warm women – is almost half-way through his 2011...  

20/07/2011 | Releases | Finland

Lost, but not quite: Emilie de Ravin stars in new Finnish romcom

Australian actress Emilie de Ravin (photo), who shot to fame during six seasons of the American award-winning television series Lost, will play the lead in Finnish director Samuli Valkama’s...  

18/07/2011 | Production | Finland

Schibsted sells Sandrew Metronome Finland

Norway’s largest media concern, Schibsted, has sold Sandrew Metronome Finland to local distributor Future Film, to fully dismantle its interest in cinema which it announced in 2010 ”was not part...  

04/07/2011 | Distribution | Finland

Finland’s largest cinema chain joins Arts Alliance’s digital roll-out

Finnkino – Finland’s largest cinema circuit, which was recently taken over by Swedish equity group, Ratos (read the news) – has clinched a deal with UK’s Arts Alliance Media to digitise its...  

30/06/2011 | Exhibitors | Finland

Two million admissions: Finnish films break 40-year record

For the first time since the Finnish Film Foundation began collecting cinema statistics in 1969, local features took more than two million admissions – more precisely, 2.1 million – in 2010 to...  

27/06/2011 | Statistics | Finland

Saara Cantell: Three women in the same family house – 1942, 1978 and today

Finnish director Saara Cantell, who most recently directed Heartbeats, has received almost a third of the Finnish Film Foundation’s latest package of production funding for her new feature, Stars...  

17/06/2011 | Production | Finland

Egoyan, Weerasethakul and Palmer to meet in ‘Midnight Sun’

Canadian, Oscar-nominated director Atom Egoyan, his Thai colleague Apichatpong Weerasethakul, who won the Golden Palm last year and UK documentarist Tony Palmer are among the official guests at...  

16/06/2011 | Festivals | Finland

Finnish Film Foundation re-appoints Krohn to her own position

The board of the Finnish Film Foundation has re-appointed Irina Krogn to the position of managing director from a field of 12 applicants, of whom five were interviewed. ”The job was declared...  

13/06/2011 | Institutions | Finland

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