Monday, September 13, 2010

Helsinki International Film Festival 16-26 Sep 2010

The film buffs of Helsinki have been busy lately studying the Helsinki International Film catalogue. Strong programming forthcoming from next Thursday on at Bio Rex, Maxim, Kinopalatsi, Andorra, Dubrovnik, and Kino Engel - and in our new little Kino Tulio in Sörnäinen equipped with a 4k projector.

Full list of the Festival programme beyond the jump break:


OPENING FILM, FINNISH FILM GALA, LOVE & ANARCHY GALA, CLOSING FILM
Gainsbourg (Vie héroïque) (Joann Sfar, FR 2010)
Napapiirin sankarit / Lapland Odyssey (Dome Karukoski, FI 2010)
The Killer Inside Me (Michael Winterbottom, US 2010)
Mr. Nobody (Jaco Van Dormael, BG/FR/DE/CA 2009)

FINNKINO PRIZE
(Untitled) (Jonathan Parker, US 2009)
Wszystko, co kocham / All That I Love (Jacek Borcuch, PL 2009)
Lourdes (Jessica Hausner, AT/FR/DE 2009)
Madeo / Mother (Bong Joon-ho, KR 2009)
Sama Wozu / Summer Wars (Mamoru Hosoda, JP 2009)
Winter's Bone (Debra Granik, US 2010)

SPOTLIGHT SELECTION
Ai no mukidashi / Love Exposure (Sion Sono, JP 2008)
The Kids Are Alright (Lisa Chodolenko, US 2010)
ITO-seitti-kilvoittelijan päiväkirja / ITO - Diary of an Urban Priest (Pirjo Honkasalo, FI/JP 2009)
Kynodontas / Dogtooth (Giorgos Lanthimos, GR 2009)
Kaboom (Gregg Araki, US 2010)
Life During Wartime (Todd Solondz, US 2009)
Nanjing! Nanjing! / City of Life and Death (Lu Chuan, CN 2009)
Cyrus (Jay Duplass & Mark Duplass, US 2010)
Un homme qui crie / A Screaming Man (Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, FR/BG/TD 2010)
Loong Boonmee raleuk chat / Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, TH/GB/FR/DE/ES/NL 2010)
Lebanon (Samuel Maoz, IL/FR/GB 2009)
Rubber (Quentin Dupieux, FR 2010)
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (Edgar Wright, US 2010)
Chloe (Atom Egoyan, US/CA/FR 2009)
Les Amours imaginaires / Heartbeats (Xavier Dolan, CA 2010)
Howl (Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman, US 2010)
Autoreiji / Outrage (Takeshi Kitano, JP 2010)
The Town (Ben Affleck, US 2010)

FRENCH TOUCH SELECTION
Tournée / Kiertue (Mathieu Amalric, FR 2010)
L'Affaire Farewell / Farewell (Christian Carion, FR 2009)
Day's Night (FR 2005) + In Between (FR 2006) + This Is the Girl (FR 2007) + Smooth (FR 2009) (Catherine Corringer)
Dog Pound (Kim Chapiron, FR/CA/GB 2010)
35 rhums / 35 Shots of Rum (Claire Denis, FR 2008)
L'Illusioniste / The Illusionist (Sylvain Chomet, GB/FR 2010)
Dharma Guns (F.J. Ossang, FR/PT 2010)

EAST SIDE STORIES
Kak ja provjol etim letom / How I Ended This Summer (Aleksei Popogrebski, RU 2010)
Ordinary People (Vladimir Perisic, FR/CH/RS/NL 2009)
Sthastje moje / My Joy (Sergei Loznitsa, DE/UA 2010)
Utólsó idók / Lost Times (Áron Mátyássy, HU 2009)
The New Wave of Czech Animation: Contact (Martin Duda, CZ 2003), Game (Galina Miklinová, CZ 2004), Geranium (Lucie Sunková, CZ 2005), Scene from the Life of Antilopes (Edita Krausová, CZ 2004), Radio Kerble (Zdnek Durdil, CZ 2006), The Clod (Jaromir Plachý, CZ 2007), Mrs. G (Michal Zabka, CZ 2007), Whoops, Mistake! (Aneta Kýrová, CZ 2008), Torchbearer (Václav Svankmajer, CZ 2005)

TERE EESTI!
Püha Tonu kiusamine / The Temptation of St. Tony (Veiko Ounpuu, EE/FI/SE 2009)
Lumekuninganna / The Snow Queen (Marko Raat, EE 2010)
Punane elavhobe / Red Mercury (Andres Puustusmaa, EE 2010)
91 kilomeetrit / 91 Kilometers (Liina Paakspuu, EE 2010)
September (Kiur Aarma & Ilmar Raag, EE 2009)
Short Films by Manfred Vainokivi: Valli Bar / The Bar (EE 2008) + Emumäe Eedi and Lobiküla Kristjan + Life Is a Flower

DANISH TREATS
Armadillo (Janus Metz, DK 2010)
Broderskab / Brotherhood (Nicolo Donato, DK 2009)
Applaus / Applause (Martin Pieter Zandvliet, DK 2009)
Alting bliver godt igen / Everything Will Be Fine (Christoffer Boe, DK 2010)
R (Tobias Lindholm, Michael Noer, DK 2010)

NORTHERN STARS
Sound of Noise (Ola Simonsson & Johannes Stjärne Nilsson, SE/FR 2009)
Apan / The Ape (Jesper Ganslandt, SE 2009)
The Good Heart / Hyvä sydän (Dagur Kári, DK/IS/US/FR/DE 2009)
Det enda rationella / A Rational Solution / Ruotsalainen avioliitto (Jorgen Bergmark, SE 2009)
Upperdog (Sara Johansen, NO 2009)
En ganske snill man / A Somewhat Gentle Man (Hans Petter Moland, NO 2010)
Short Films from Sweden: Istället för abrakadabra / Instead of Abracadabra, SE 2008) + Slitage / Seeds of the Fall (Patrik Edlund, SE 2009) + Födelsedag / Birthday (Jenifer Malmqvist, SE 2010) + Händelse vid bank / Incident by a Bank (Ruben Östlund, SE 2010)

LATIN GROOVES
Somos lo que hay / We Are What We Are / Mä oon mikä oon (Jorge Michel Grau, MX 2010)
Alamar / To the Sea (Pedro González-Rubio, MX 2009)
Sons of Cuba (Andrew Lang, GB 2009)
Voy a explotar / I'm Gonna Explode (Gerardo Naranjo, MX 2008)
Nosotras que todavía estamos vivas / We Who Are Still Alive (Daniele Cini, IT/AR 2008)

(UNTITLED)
Die Stille der Unschuld - der Künstler Gottfried Helnwein / Helnwein - The Silence of Innocence (Claudia Schmid, DE 2009)
Jean-Michael Basquiat: The Radiant Child (Tamra Davis, US 2010)
Waste Land (Lucy Walker, BR/GB 2010)
Zanan-e bedun-e mardan / Women Without Men (Shirin Neshat & Shoja Azari, DE/AT/FR 2009)

COMPLEX ASIA
San qiang pai an jing qi / A Woman, a Gun, and a Noodle Shop / Nainen, pyssy ja nuudelipuoti (Zhang Yimou, CN 2010)
Kinbaku / Kinbaku - Art of Bondage (Jouni Hokkanen, FI 2010)
Shinboru / Symbol (Hitoshi Matsumoto, JP 2009)
Hanyo / The Housemaid (Im Sang-soo, KR 2010)
Lola (Brillante Mendoza, FR/PH 2009)
Mengjia / Monga (Doze Niu, TW 2010)
Yi ngoi / Accident (Pou-soi Cheang, HK 2009)
Dà bing xiao jiang / Little Big Soldier (Ding Sheng, HK/CN 2010) - Jackie Chan
Kurozu zero II / Crows Zero II (Takashi Miike, JP 2009)

ANIMATED DREAMS
Heisei tanuki gassen Pompoko / Pom Poko (Isao Takahata, JP 1994)
Evangerion shin gekijoban: ha / Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance (Hideaki Anno, Masayuki, Kazuya Tsurumaki, JP 2009)

STORIES FROM IRELAND
Ondine (Neil Jordan, IE/US 2009)
The Eclipse (Conor McPherson, IE 2009)
Gabriel Byrne: Stories from Home (Pat Collins, IE 2008)
His & Hers (Ken Wardrop, IE 2009)
Nothing Personal (Urszula Antoniak, IE/NL 2009)
The Secret of Kells (Tomm Moore & Nora Twomey, IE/FR/BG 2009)
Irish Shorts: Runners (Rob Burke & Ronan Burke) + If I Should Fall Behind (Morgan Bushe) + If These Walls Could Talk (Anna Rodgers) + The Herd (Ken Wardrop) + Farewell Packets of Ten (Ken Wardrop) + Granny O'Grimm's Sleeping Beauty (Nicky Phelan) + The Door (Juanita Wilson)

VIVA ITALIA!
Io sono l'amore / I Am Love / Rakkautta italialaisittain (Luca Guadagnino, IT 2009)
La doppia ora / The Double Hour (Giuseppe Capotondi, IT 2009)
Vincere (Marco Bellocchio, IT/FR 2009)
Cosa voglio di più / What More Do I Want / Kun silmäni mä auki saan (Silvio Soldini, IT 2010)

FLICKS FROM DOWN UNDER
Animal Kingdom (David Michôd, AU 2010)
The Tree (Luie Bertocelli, AU/FR 2010)
Going Vertical: The Shortboard Revolution (David Bradbury, AU 2009)
AFTRS Presents: Australian Short Films: Dead Boring (Dave Edwardz, AU 2010) + Cupid (Melvin J. Montalban, AU 2009) + Four (Erin White, AU 2008) + Liebermans in the Sky (Richard Vilensky, AU 2009) + Look Sharp (Amy Gebhardt, AU 2006) + Meditations on a Name (Bonnie Elliott, AU 2007)

BOLLYWOOD!
Luck by Chance (Zoya Akhtar, IN 2009)
Raavan (Mani Ratnam, IN 2010)

UNDERCURRENTS
Shit Year (Cam Archer, US 2010)
Beeswax (Andrew Bujalski, US 2009)
The Unloved (Samantha Morton, GB 2009)
Picture Me: A Model's Diary (Ole Schell & Sara Ziff, US 2009)
Blank City (Céline Danhier, US 2010)
Gasland (Josh Fox, US 2010)
Restrepo (Sebastian Junger & Tim Hetherington, US 2010)
The Family Tree (Vivi Friedman, US 2010)
Cairo Time (Ruba Nadda, CA/IE/EG 2009)
Burlesque Undressed (Alison Grist, GB 2010)

MIDNIGHT MOVIES
Trash Humpers (Harmony Korine, US 2009)
Zivot i smrt porno bande / Life and Death of a Porno Gang (Mladen Djordjevic, RS 2009)
Wai dor lei ah yut ho / Dream Home (Ho-Cheung Pang, HK 2010)
L.A. Zombie (Bruce LaBruce, US/DE 2010)
Buried (Rodrigo Cortés, ES 2010)
Picco (Philip Koch, DE 2010)

BEAT THIS!
Anvil! The Story of Anvil (Sacha Gervasi, US 2008)
Neil Young Trunk Show (Jonathan Demme, NL/US/CA 2009)
Still Bill (Damani Baker & Alex Vlack, US 2009)
The White Stripes Under Great White Northern Lights (Emmett Malloy, US 2009)
Oil City Confidential (Julien Temple, GB 2009)
Le Donk & Scor-zay-zee (Shane Meadows, GB 2009)
Benda Bilili! (Renaud Barret & Florent de La Tullaye, CD/FR 2010)

FINNISH PEARLS & SHORT FILMS
Finnish Pearls: Timanttikoirien vuosi 1984 / Helsinki Underground (Petri Hakkarainen, FI 2010) + Lohikäärmeranta / Dragon Beach (Aada Sigurlina Niilola, FI 2010) + Huomisen muisto / Memory of Tomorrow (Pekka Saari, FI 2010) + Erään hyönteisen tuho / The Death of an Insect (Hannes Vartiainen & Pekka Veikkolainen, FI 2010) + Suomalainen / The Finn (Eric Hynynen & Saija Holm, FI 2009) + Miten marjoja poimitaan / How to Pick Berries (Elina Talvensaari, FI 2010) + Black Horse (Malakias, FI 2010) + Potilas / The Patient (Misko Iho, FI 2010)
Spanish Shorts: DVD (Ciro Altabás) + Made in Japan (Ciro Altabás) + Jesusito de mi vida / Dear Child Jesus (Jesús Pérez-Miranda) + Out of Here (Chino Moya) + Porque hay cosas que nunca se olvidan... / Because There Are Things You Never Forget... (Lucas Figueroa) + Telemaco (Jorge M. Rodrigo) + El hilo de oro / The Golden Thread (Diego Sanchidrián)
UK Shorts: Hard Hat (Karan Kandhari, GB 2009) + The Space You Leave (James Newton, GB 2009)
Short Matters! European Film Academy Short Film Nominees 2009 On Tour: Sinner (Meni Philip) + Between Dreams (Iris Olsson) + Bonne nuit / Good Night (Valery Rosier) + Die Leiden des Herrn Karpf - Der Geburtstag (Lola Randl) + 14 (Asitha Ameresekere) + Szklana pulapka / The Glass Trap (Pawel Ferdek) + The Herd (Ken Wardrop) + Peter in Radioland (Johanna Wagner) + Renovare / Renovatoin (Paul Negoescu) + Lägg M för mord / Tile M for Murder (Magnus Holmgren) + Was bleibt (David Nawrath) + Zwemles / Swimming Lesson (Danny de Vent) + Poste restante (Marcel Lozinski)
ELO-kuvia. Helsinki University of Art and Design, School of Motion Picture, Television and Production Design presents new documentaries and fiction films: Ballongresan / The Balloon Trip (Jonas Kukkonen, FI 2009) + Marja-Sisko / Guardian Angel (Reetta Aalto, FI 2010) + Do Not Disturb (Tommi Kainulainen, FI 2009) + Lähtöhuuto / Stray Shout (Anssi Pulkkinen, FI 2010) + Siivet ja hampaat / Wings & Teeth, FI 2009)

KINO UUMEN (FILM CONCERT)
Freedub 1 + MRDRCHAIN + Smooth (Catherine Corringer) + Máquina (Gabe Ibáñez)

Festival Commissioners: Pekka Lanerva, Johanna Norrbacka
Program Coordinator: Sonja Löfström
Press Coordinator: Saija Holm
Festival Committee: Annakaisa Anttila, Jouni Hokkanen, Johanna Honkola, Saija Holm, Paavo Ihalainen, Johannes Kinnunen, Kalle Kinnunen, Pekka Lanerva, Lauri Lehtinen, Sonja Löfström, Mirkka Maikola, Eija Niskanen, Johanna Norrbacka, Matti Paunio, Antti Purhonen, Outi Rehn, Simo-Jukka Ruippo, Katariina Rönnqvist, Mika Siltala, Antti Suonio, Janne Timonen, Maria Virtanen, Turkka Ylinen
Festival Catalogue Editor: Turkka Ylinen

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