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827 articles available in total starting from 29/05/2002. Last article published on 09/03/2026.

Kaurismäki wins top Jussi award

During the annual awards film ceremony held last Sunday night in Helsinki, Aki Kaurismaki received the Jussi award for Best Film of the Year, for Lights in the Dusk, presented to him by French...  

06/02/2007 | Awards | Finland

Eight Jussi nominations for Frozen City

Aku Louhimies’ drama Frozen City is the favourite for this year’s top Finnish film honours, the Jussi Awards, with eight nominations, including Best Film, Director, Screenplay (Paavo Westerberg...  

22/01/2007 | Awards | Finland

Local films up 69%

Finnish films had a record year in 2006 with approximately 1.6m admissions, up 69% from 2005. According to preliminary figures from the Finnish Film Foundation, the domestic market share for local...  

09/01/2007 | Admissions | Finland

Finnkino holds first digital screening

Mystery of the Wolf, the new children’s film by Raimo O. Niemi produced by Kinoproduction in Finland in co-production with Filmlance International (Sweden) and F&ME (UK), had the honour of being...  

20/12/2006 | Exhibitors | Finland

Dome Karukoski prepares two new features

Up-and-coming Finnish filmmaker Dome Karukoski is getting ready for two new feature films, to be produced respectively by Solar Films and Helsinki Filmi. Twenty-eight year-old Karukoski (son of...  

08/12/2006 | Production | Finland

25% market share for local films

Domestic admissions for Finnish films have increased by over 60% in 2006 compared to 2005, now exceeding 1.5m. This represents a 25% market share, a drastic improvement on 2005’s 15% slice of the...  

27/11/2006 | Admissions | Finland

Interview: Aku Louhimies • Director

"Civilisation is easily lost"

Aku Louhimies talks about his dark tale of divorce and desperation, an intimate portrait of an essentially good young father driven to desperation and accused of an act he cannot remember committing  

30/10/2006

Interview: Markus Selin • Producer

"A good script is a good script"

Producer Markus Selin heads Solar Films, the company responsible for some of Finland's biggest box office hits but also of some of the country's most critically acclaimed films and TV productions  

30/10/2006

Frozen City

Aku Louhimies' extrapolation of a taxidriving character from a TV-series is a powerful stand-alone film  

30/10/2006 | Films | Reviews

Kaurismaki says no to Oscar consideration

Aki Kaurismäki has decided not to accept to submit his film Lights in the Dusk as Finnish candidate for this year’s Oscars nominations. The film, which had its world premiere in Cannes last May,...  

23/10/2006 | Oscars 2006 | Finland

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