“It started as a hobby,” Samuli Torssonen, the man behind the Star Wreck saga and the face of Captain Pirk, the ultimate emperor of the Universe, explains. “I’m a huge […]
The Replacement Killers
Teaming up with him is Mira Sorvino, with a convincing interpretation of Meg Coburn, a tough woman forged by a hard destiny, who employees herself faking different kind of documents […]
Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles
Riding Alone for Thousand of Miles is a movie that flows peacefully and is well-balanced, just as the main character Gou-ichi Takata (played by Ken Takakura) faces the problems of […]
Colours of the world
Dusty villages, hopeless teenagers, old dancing wizards, corrupted school principals…a tough reality. From eight different countries of Sub-Saharan Africa, 22 contemporary short films and documentaries will arrive in Tampere […]
Tales of love, sex and solitude
Surrounded by old projectors and film star photos at the Motion Picture museum in Helsinki, Aku Louhimies speaks calmly, even when discussing his latest movie Man Exposed (Rissuuttu Mies, 2006) […]
A forbidden affair
Suden Vuosi follows the complicated love-story between Mikko, a middle-aged professor of literature (Kari Heiskanen) and his star pupil, the quiet, epileptic Sari (Krista Kosonen). Sari’s condition has caused her […]
Perfume: the repeated story of a failed adaptation
21 years later, the cinema version based on the best-seller is finally released, under the direction of Tom Tykwer, who started to get success after his superb piece “Run Lola […]
Kristina Schulgin’s candidates
{mosimage}The series of Mexican films came about through one such happy coincidence. The organizers of Mexican DOCSDF contacted DocPoint to ask for help in setting up their first documentary film […]
A turning (Doc) Point for documentaries lovers
Of this year’s two featured countries, the Danish series focuses on the rise of Danish cinema with the likes of this year’s esteemed IDFA winners and films from the two […]
Borat: the Comedy of Superiority
{quotes}Part Jackass, part Andy Kaufman, Sacha Baron Cohen is clearly a man who thrives on controversy, but to label him as a low-brow shock comedian is to miss the point.{/quotes} […]
Fox Days: The Size Does Not Matter
All of the films shown had English subtitles, so Fox Days makes a perfect occasion for the non-Finnish speaker to get a better idea of what is going on in […]
Someday a Real Snow Will Come
{mosimage}The movie is based on the 12-episode TV series Fragments (Irtiottoja) shown in Finland during the autumn of 2003 in which the taxi driver Veli-Matti was one of the main […]