Cycle
From 14.03. To 22.03.2006.
Program of contemporary Finnish films
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Films in cycle
The Geography of Fear
(Pelon maantiede, 2000)
Directed by: Auli Mantila
PHOTOGRAPHY: Heikki Färm
Synopsis:
A body of an unknown dead man washes up on the coast of Helsinki. Oili, a successful forensic dentist, works on the case. In her private life Oili is happy, calm and in love with a policeman. However, this crime, along with her younger sister Laura’s new friends, turns her life upside down.
color, 95 min
PROJECTION:
Wednesday 15.03.2006 AT 21:00
Tuesday 14.03.2006 AT 19:00
River
(Joki, 2001)
Directed by: Jarmo Lampela
PHOTOGRAPHY: Harri Räty
Synopsis:
This film consists of six different interwoven stories that all take place over the course of an hour one Saturday. In the first story Anna, a young mother, tries to kill herself and her baby by drowning in a river that runs through her small town. Luckily, two teenagers notice her and save Anna and the baby. This event sets off the other five stories.
color, 104 min
PROJECTION:
Wednesday 15.03.2006 AT 19:00
Tuesday 14.03.2006 AT 21:00
Upswing
(Nousukausi, 2003)
Directed by: Johanna Vuoksenmaa
PHOTOGRAPHY: Peter Flinckenberg
Synopsis:
This is a comedy about a married couple who decides to take a rather strange vacation. While their friends go to exotic locations, Janne and Katri, successful and well-off business people, decide to spend their vacation in gloomy suburbs without credit cards, passports or keys to their own apartment.
color, 98 min
PROJECTION:
Friday 17.03.2006 AT 21:00
Thursday 16.03.2006 AT 19:00
Mother of Mine
(Äideistä parhain, 2005)
Directed by: Klaus Härö
PHOTOGRAPHY: Jarkko T. Laine
Synopsis:
This is a film about the problems of Finnish children who were placed in foster families in Sweden and other surrounding countries during WW II. The main character is Eero, a nine-year-old who longs for his mother and feels lonely with his new family, whose language he does not understand…
color, 111 min
PROJECTION:
Wednesday 22.03.2006 AT 21:00
Friday 17.03.2006 AT 19:00
As If I Didn't Exist
(Näkymätön Elina, 2002)
Directed by: Klaus Härö
PHOTOGRAPHY: Jarkko T. Laine
Synopsis:
Elina is a nine-year-old girl who lives with her mother and sister in northern Sweden. They belong to a minority that speaks Finnish. The film follows their daily lives, including Elina’s return to school after a bout of tuberculosis that killed her father several years before. In school Elina speaks Finnish. This upsets her new teacher, Miss Holm. Both of them are relentlessly stubborn and a battle of nerves begins… As If I Didn't Exist was the Finnish candidate for an Oscar in 2003.
color, 77 min
PROJECTION:
Monday 20.03.2006 AT 21:00
Saturday 18.03.2006 AT 19:00
Pelicanman
(Pelikaanimies, 2004)
Directed by: Liisa Helminen
PHOTOGRAPHY: Timo Salminen
Synopsis:
The main character of this film works in the opera house. He is in love with a ballerina and is a friend to two little kids, Emil and Elsa. Even though all the grown-ups see him as an ordinary man, the two kids see his true self - he is in fact a bird! He had flown to Finland and became enchanted with the local people. He became a man, learned to imitate the Finnish language and decided to stay and learn more about Finnish people.
color, 90 min
PROJECTION:
Tuesday 21.03.2006 AT 19:00
Saturday 18.03.2006 AT 21:00
Frozen Land
(Paha maa, 2005)
Directed by: Aku Louhimies
PHOTOGRAPHY: Rauno Ronkainen
Synopsis:
Tuomas is a young hacker who wants to do something socially useful in his life. Elina is his fiancé, an intelligent and brave activist who studies history and political science. Niko is Tuomas’ friend who leads a hedonistic life, drinking and doing drugs. He forges a check for 500 euros and spurs the film’s story.