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

The Finnish Film Foundation grants production support to a variety of new projects

The Finnish Film Foundation grants production support to a variety of new projects

War, a tango festival and love for the forest are among the topics tackled by the films that have been granted a total of €6.3 million in production aid  

27/03/2023 | Production | Funding | Finland

Girl Picture and Hatching scoop Jussis as Finland celebrates local films

Girl Picture and Hatching scoop Jussis as Finland celebrates local films

Female filmmakers – and karaoke – clearly triumphed at the ceremony held to dish out the “Finnish Oscars”  

27/03/2023 | Festivals | Awards | Finland

Sami van Ingen, Mika Taanila  • Directors of Monica in the South Seas

Interview: Sami van Ingen, Mika Taanila • Directors of Monica in the South Seas

“We took this big pile of material and ‘massaged’ a film out of it”

The directorial duo combine two films and two stories, following a woman attempting to return to a past that never was  

22/03/2023 | /Finland

Pasi Hakkio  • Producer, Wacky Tie Films

Interview: Pasi Hakkio • Producer, Wacky Tie Films

“In documentaries we have more creative freedom than in the fiction world”

The Emerging Producer from Finland talks about how he tries to make films about themes that are important and relevant to him  

20/03/2023 | Emerging Producers 2023

Juha Suonpää  • Director of Lynx Man

Interview: Juha Suonpää • Director of Lynx Man

“It’s a political statement to be crazy”

Who said that one man’s love for the lynx can’t save the world? The director’s protagonist, Hannu, is clearly trying to do so  

20/03/2023 | CPH:DOX 2023

Review: The Good Driver

Review: The Good Driver

Bulgarian documentary filmmaker Tonislav Hristov's fiction feature debut tells of a personal search for a place in the world against the backdrop of illegal immigrant smuggling  

16/03/2023 | Bergamo 2023

Ole Giæver • Director of Let the River Flow

Interview: Ole Giæver • Director of Let the River Flow

“I’ve also had my Sámi awakening”

The Norwegian director opens up about the fight surrounding the construction of the Alta Dam, and telling stories from a Sámi perspective  

16/03/2023 | /Norway/Finland

Review: The Last Seagull

Review: The Last Seagull

In his seventh feature-length documentary, Bulgaria’s Tonislav Hristov portrays an “endangered species” of a character while disclosing curious details about a very local phenomenon  

08/03/2023 | Thessaloniki Documentary 2023

Tonislav Hristov  • Director of The Last Seagull

Interview: Tonislav Hristov • Director of The Last Seagull

“My film portrays a man who is not treated well by women – something we don’t see often on screen”

The Bulgarian helmer discloses some insights into a social phenomenon that emerged at the Bulgarian seaside in the latter decades of communism  

06/03/2023 | Thessaloniki Documentary 2023

Alina Tomnikov  • Actress

Interview: Alina Tomnikov • Actress

"The biggest challenge has been the periods of time when I don’t have any work"

BERLINALE 2023: The Finnish actress shares with us the reasons why acting has saved her  

27/02/2023 | European Shooting Stars 2023

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