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28 Jan – 7 Feb 2027

Overview of articles

  • 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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  • Paavo Nurmi – The Man and His Times

    Paavo Nurmi is a sports legend, a name people know to this day. For Finland, Nurmi was an ideal, an axiom of the nation’s spirit…
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  • Blue Sky – Journey Into the Land of Memories

    The dance pavilion considered as the centre of social life, with the Finnish tango as the key to the collective unconscious – the dream life…
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  • A Day at Karl Marx’s Grave

    A hundred years after the great 19th-century German philosopher’s demise, ordinary people from some 20 nations talk about his legacy. To the people, M
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