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29 Jan – 8 Feb 2026

Overview of articles

  • 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…
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  • 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 heyda
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  • 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 from
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  • 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 and
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  • The Story of Mikko Niskanen

    Portrait of a genius as a troubled human being trying his best to find a way through life. A documentary about a too- little- known…
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  • The Year 1952

    In 1952, Helsinki finally hosted the Summer Olympics, which marked the beginning of the nation’s postwar regeneration. It was a good year for many thi
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  • Drama of Time

    A brief essay on time triggered by a hostage crisis drowned in blood. A fine cinematic exercise in philosophy. Screened before A Time of Roses.
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  • SF – Paraati

    A musical comedy about a singing cabby and a singing tourist guide in Helsinki which, if viewed with discernment, presents all of Finland’s contradict
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  • Land of the Pharaohs

    Sights and tunes from postwar Finland interspersed with quotes from Mika Waltari’s classic Sinuhe egyptiläinen (1945). An astonishing exercise in read
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  • The Last Summer 1944

    A plunge into the last months of Finland’s WWII in all its tired gruesomeness. A fugue of dour, sad, doubt-ridden, sorrow-filled faces, confessions an
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