Overview of articles
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Pockpicket – Recollections of a Helsinki Bourgeois Youth
Bresson topsy-turvy: the desolate rich put money into the pockets of the needy. Hilarious, and politically perversely poignant. Screened before The CoPublished on: -
Olavi Virta
Olavi Virta, Finnish tango’s greatest voice, as an old, lost and lonely man. Time as the great leveller in all its morose unforgivingness. Screened bePublished on: -
Eight Deadly Shots
A poor farmer tries to get by, but fails. Blood is shed, not out of malice, but simple desperation. A raw exposé on human degradation…Published on: -
The Count
Portrait of a real-life swindler – played by himself! Von Bagh’s feature debut: a weird ‘n wild mix of fact and fiction, documentary scenes and…Published on: -
Man in the Shadows
Otto Wille Kuusinen – communist, traitor, political survivor, is one of the most disputed characters of Finnish history. Von Bagh’s most journalisticPublished on: -
A Time of Roses
In 2012, a historian/artist tries to recreate the life of a loose woman from the 1970s – and gets lost in a hall of mirrors…Published on: -
Splinters – A Century of an Artistic Family
A century of development, starting in the era of Finland’s nascent nationalism, when the country still belonged to Tsarist Russia, ending in the heydaPublished on: -
Among Others
Several monitors appear in semi-public spaces around the festival centre. Takala invites us to follow her game of trespassing and challenging social sPublished on: -
Sodankylä Forever: The Century of Cinema
Since 1969, masters of cinema have shown their films at the legendary Midnight Sun Film Festival and talked about their art. With choice moments fromPublished on: -
Helsinki, Forever
Helsinki vu par Peter von Bagh: a vision of Finland’s capital through the ages, created with pictures and sounds from myriads of films, newsreels andPublished on: