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The 10 Best Films of 2021

The 10 Best Films of 2021

2021 turned out to be a surprisingly good year for film, despite us suffering through the second year of the pandemic and with Finnish theaters unfairly closed for months on end. Here are ten highlights that I particularly loved, but they’re certainly not every great film that has come

15 FILMS TO SEE AT THE HELSINKI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL - 2021 EDITION

15 FILMS TO SEE AT THE HELSINKI INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL - 2021 EDITION

Another abnormal year For the second year running, The Helsinki International Film Festival Love and Anarchy has to cope with arbitrary limitations and uncertainty in the face of cancellation. And, for the second year running, I’ll be there to cover it the best I can. You can check out

25 FILMS YOU SHOULD SEE AT THIS YEAR'S LOVE & ANARCHY FILM FESTIVAL

It’s already been a year, and Love & Anarchy is back with a vengeance. With a whopping 140 features and 170 short films screening over the course of 560 screenings (out of which 51% are directed by people not identifying as men), the wealth of visions from around the world

THE LIGHTHOUSE

????? New England, sometime in the late 1800’s. A thick fog obscures all that we can see. A foghorn calls. Waves swell. A tiny steamer ship pushes through the silver curtain and disappears from sight. Two men with grizzled beards and worn out faces watch as it goes. They’re

FINDING BRUCE: An interview with Gurinder Chadha

BLINDED BY THE LIGHT received a wide release in Finland on 8.11.2019. This interview was made already in September for the Helsinki International Film Festival and is reprinted in English for the first time. It’s been edited for clarity. I wanted to start by thanking you for

Interview: Victor Lindgren & The Unpromised Land

Joonatan Itkonen: I just finished watching THE UNPROMISED LAND twenty minutes ago, and I really loved it. I thought it was incredibly touching. At the risk of sounding as naive as Elin (one of the leads) – and I won’t personally ever know how any of this feels being a

SAMURAI MARATHON

??? Japani 1800-luvulla. Mustien purjeiden vetämät laivat ovat rantautuneet kaukoitään. Amerikkalaiset ja muut onnenonkijat saapuvat tusinoittain käymään kauppaa oikeuksista milloin mihinkin. Yhdet haluavat työvoimaa, toiset luonnonvaroja. Koskematon ja kaunis kulttuuri ajautuu törmäyskurssille väistämättömän tulevaisuuden kanssa. Paikallinen sotalordi näkee painajaisissaan vision elämäntapansa päättymisestä, ja päättää kouluttaa laiskanpulleiksi päässeistä samuraistaan jälleen parhaimmat