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

Three features and four shorts unveiled

Finland is well represented this year at Cannes with Lights in the Dusk by the country’s most established film ambassador, Aki Kaurismäki, screening in official competition on Monday, May 22. The...  

15/05/2006 | Cannes 2006 | Finland

Homesick gets FICC prize

Homesick (Koti-ikävä), the directorial debut by Petri Kotwica, has been awarded the Don Quixote Prize for Best Film at the Kristiansand International Children´s Film Festival (April 25-May 1). The...  

04/05/2006 | Awards | Finland

Adult director back at work

Aleksi Salmenperä, the director behind the acclaimed 2004 film Producing Adults, has just started shooting his second feature film, Man’s Job (Miehen työ) for producers Petri Jokiranta and Tero...  

02/05/2006 | Production | Finland

Kaurismäki’s Lights sold to 13 countries

Aki Kaurismäki’s Lights in the Dusk, selected to compete in official competition at Cannes, has already been pre-sold to 13 territories by Köln-based sales company The Match Factory. These...  

24/04/2006 | Cannes 2006 | Finland

Record-breaking two first months

Thanks to Aleksi Mäkelä’s Matti: Hell Is For Heroes, released by Buena Vista – which has recorded 432,000 admissions in less than two months, or 54% of the total admissions for Finnish films since...  

03/03/2006 | Box office | Finland

Kaurismaki gets ready for Cannes

Lights in the Dusk, the highly anticipated last part of Aki Kaurismäki’s trilogy, has been out on Finnish screens since February 3, but the director’s own production company, Sputnik Film, told...  

23/02/2006 | Distribution | Finland

Frozen Land scoops up eight Jussis

As expected, Aku Louhimies’s Frozen Land, last year’s number one title at the Finnish box office, was the clear winner at Finland’s top annual Jussi Awards, held last Sunday night in Helsinki. The...  

07/02/2006 | Awards | Finland

All time-record for local films

Finnish films had an all-time record audience last weekend with five films taking as much as 81% of the total admissions at the local Top 10. Last weekend’s new release Matti-Hell Is For Heroes by...  

19/01/2006 | Admissions | Finland

10 Jussi nominations for Frozen Land

Aku Louhimies’s Frozen Land received the warmest support from Filmiaura, the association of over 230 Finnish film professionals overseeing the annual Finnish Oscars or ‘Jussi’ Awards. The...  

18/01/2006 | Awards | Finland

Three MRP films at the Top 10

Finland’s biggest production company Matila Röhr Productions is making a strong start at the domestic box office in 2006 with three Finnish films at last weekend’s Top 10, all released by Nordisk...  

12/01/2006 | Box office | Finland

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