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703 articles available in total starting from 29/05/2002. Last article published on 25/03/2024.

Review: Beau Is Afraid

Review: Beau Is Afraid

Joaquin Phoenix is the perennially anxious mama’s boy in Ari Aster’s grim, often hilarious follow-up to Midsommar and Hereditary  

28/04/2023 | Films | Reviews | US/Canada/Finland

Mikkel Serup begins filming the political thriller Kingmaker, the sequel to King’s Game

Mikkel Serup begins filming the political thriller Kingmaker, the sequel to King’s Game

Anders W Berthelsen plays a journalist who, after a round of lay-offs and a long period on social welfare, ends up in an internship at his former workplace  

26/04/2023 | Production | Funding | Denmark/Sweden/Finland

Aki Kaurismäki’s latest outing, Fallen Leaves, set to world-premiere at Cannes

Aki Kaurismäki’s latest outing, Fallen Leaves, set to world-premiere at Cannes

Labelled as a “gentle tragicomedy about two people looking for love”, the picture stars Alma Pöysti and Jussi Vatanen in the leading roles  

18/04/2023 | Production | Funding | Finland/Germany

Kari Vidø's supernatural thriller Paranoia enters production

Kari Vidø's supernatural thriller Paranoia enters production

Based on Birgitte Lorentzen's book of the same name, the new feature is toplined by Danish rising stars Zoe Bryan Hertz and August Issac Carter  

06/04/2023 | Production | Funding | Denmark/Finland

Review: Lynx Man

Review: Lynx Man

Like a Finnish rendition of “Old MacDonald Had a Farm”, with a recluse and a wild animal instead of livestock, Juha Suonpää’s film both melts hearts and breaks them, too  

29/03/2023 | CPH:DOX 2023

Petri Luukkainen, Jesse Jokinen  • Directors of The Gamer

Interview: Petri Luukkainen, Jesse Jokinen • Directors of The Gamer

“Gamers have to struggle with stress even more than football players”

The directorial duo break down their documentary on a Finnish gamer working his way to the top, who gets help from a top e-sports psychologist  

28/03/2023 | CPH:DOX 2023

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

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