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803 articles available in total starting from 29/05/2002. Last article published on 30/10/2025.

Schibsted sells Sandrew Metronome Finland

Norway’s largest media concern, Schibsted, has sold Sandrew Metronome Finland to local distributor Future Film, to fully dismantle its interest in cinema which it announced in 2010 ”was not part...  

04/07/2011 | Distribution | Finland

Finland’s largest cinema chain joins Arts Alliance’s digital roll-out

Finnkino – Finland’s largest cinema circuit, which was recently taken over by Swedish equity group, Ratos (read the news) – has clinched a deal with UK’s Arts Alliance Media to digitise its...  

30/06/2011 | Exhibitors | Finland

Two million admissions: Finnish films break 40-year record

For the first time since the Finnish Film Foundation began collecting cinema statistics in 1969, local features took more than two million admissions – more precisely, 2.1 million – in 2010 to...  

27/06/2011 | Statistics | Finland

Saara Cantell: Three women in the same family house – 1942, 1978 and today

Finnish director Saara Cantell, who most recently directed Heartbeats, has received almost a third of the Finnish Film Foundation’s latest package of production funding for her new feature, Stars...  

17/06/2011 | Production | Finland

Egoyan, Weerasethakul and Palmer to meet in ‘Midnight Sun’

Canadian, Oscar-nominated director Atom Egoyan, his Thai colleague Apichatpong Weerasethakul, who won the Golden Palm last year and UK documentarist Tony Palmer are among the official guests at...  

16/06/2011 | Festivals | Finland

Finnish Film Foundation re-appoints Krohn to her own position

The board of the Finnish Film Foundation has re-appointed Irina Krogn to the position of managing director from a field of 12 applicants, of whom five were interviewed. ”The job was declared...  

13/06/2011 | Institutions | Finland

Karo’s feature debut the Key to two prizes in Park City

Finnish director Rosa Karo’s feature debut, The Italian Key, won both the Gold Medal and the Director’s Choice Award at the 8th Park City Film Music Festival in Park City, Utah, USA. Having...  

31/05/2011 | Awards | Finland

Largest Finnish theatre chain sold to Swedish equity group

Finnish media concern Sanoma WSOY’s sale of Finnkino – the country’s largest theatre circuit – and its Baltic subsidiary, Forum Cinemas, to Swedish private conglomerate, Ratos, has now been...  

26/05/2011 | Exhibitors | Finland/Baltics

Pozdniakovas turns Sanskrit epic into 3D animation

Finnish director-editor-sometime actor Arturas Pozdniakovas has started production on the €8.7m The Legend of King Nal (Kuningas Nalin tarina), a 3D animated feature based on the Indian national...  

26/05/2011 | Production | Finland

Kaurismaki turns Le Havre into a place of hope

With Le Havre, presented in Official Competition at the 64th Cannes Film Festival, inimitable Finnish director Aki Kaurismaki (Grand Jury Prize winner at Cannes 2002 for The Man Without a Past)...  

17/05/2011 | Cannes 2011 | Competition/Finland

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