Friday, June 11, 2010

The 25th Midnight Sun Film Festival 16-20 June 2010

The Midnight Sun Film Festival celebrates its 25th anniversary next week, and the main guests include Terence Davies (Great Britain), Bahman Ghobadi (Iran), Pedro Costa (Portugal), and Vesa-Matti Loiri (Finland). I seem to have visited the festival 13 times, and I regret every year I have missed. In my work at the film archive June is the busiest month since we need to work a month in advance to send the autumn programme to the printing house before the summer holiday (July is the holiday month in Finland), but what can one do.

1986: Samuel Fuller, Jonathan Demme, Bertrand Tavernier, Jean-Pierre Gorin
X 1987: Michael Powell, Jacques Demy, Jim Jarmusch, D. A. Pennebaker, Juliet Berto, Thelma Schoonmaker
X 1988: Monte Hellman, Paul Schrader, Dušan Makavejev, Aleksei German, Krzysztof Zanussi, Ali Özgentürk, Helle Ryslinge
X 1989: Paul Morrissey, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Otar Ioseliani, John Berry, Vadim Abrašitov, Idrissa Ouedraogo
X 1990: Richard Fleischer, Manoel de Oliveira, Ettore Scola, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Octavio Bezerra
X 1991: Andre De Toth, Laslo Benedek, Alberto Lattuada, Jean-Charles Tacchella, Agnès Varda, Chantal Akerman, Enzo Serafin, Etienne Chatiliez
X 1992: Roger Corman, Claude Chabrol, Jan Troell
1993: Joseph H. Lewis, Dino Risi, Jerzy Kawalerowicz, Julio Medem
X 1994: Robert Wise, Mario Monicelli, Luis García Berlanga, Stanley Donen, John Sayles
1995: Robert Parrish, Agnieszka Holland, Maud Linder, Richard Price, Fridrik Thór Fridriksson, Victor Erice
1996: Jean Dréville, Claude Sautet, Danièle Dubroux, Robert Boyle, Doris Dörrie
1997: Gianni Amelio, Vincent Sherman, Jerzy Skolimowski, István Szabó, Costas Ferris
1998: Youssef Chahine, Terry Gilliam, Robby Müller, Stefan Jarl, Wim Wenders, Leonard Kastle
1999: Edgardo Cozarinsky, Costa-Gavras, Francesco Rosi, Angela Winkler, Murali Nair
X 2000: Bob Rafelson, Paolo Taviani, Ivan Passer, Shinji Aoyama
X 2001: Freddie Francis, Sergio Sollima, Jerry Schatzberg, Agnès Jaoui, Nana Djordjadze, Filippos Tsitos
X 2002: Francis Ford Coppola, Miklós Jancsó, Fernando Solanas, Denys Arcand, Luce Vigo
X 2003: Irvin Kershner, Emir Kusturica, Jean Rouch, Matti Kassila
X 2004: Val Guest, Nanni Moretti, Marlen Hutsijev, Wolfgang Becker, Jörn Donner
2005: Roy Ward Baker, Jean-Pierre Dardenne & Luc Dardenne, Yeşim Ustaoğlu, Juan Pablo Rebella & Pablo Stoll
X 2006: Gian Vittorio Baldi, Carrol Ballard, Andrei Smirnov, Jafar Panahi, Isabelle Stever, Mercedes Álvarez, Jasmine Trinca
2007: Abbas Kiarostami, Claude Goretta, Vittorio De Seta, Giuseppe Bertolucci, Amos Gitai, Elia Suleiman, Fatih Akin, Pascale Ferran, Detlev Buck
2008: Serge Bozon, Seymour Cassel, Milos Forman, Andrei Konchalovsky, Jean-Louis Leutrat, Suzanne Liandrat-Guigues, Veiko Õunpuu, Lasse Pöysti
2009: John Boorman, Robert Guédiguian, Samira Makhmalbaf, Fatih Akin, Sergei Dvortsevoi, Andreas Dresen, Rainer Klausmann

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