Article written by Gloria De Felice Helsinki International Film Festival “Love&Anarchy” is the most popular cinema festival in Helsinki. It lasts around 10 days. It offers different movies from all around the world, giving the biggest focus on nowadays society through filming. Most of the movies have English subtitles. They also organize forum discussions…
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Finnish youth are meeting to form a new model of society
Article written by Thierry Francis Mbabane, pictures courtesy of Jussi Vierimaa, video by Thierry Francis Mbabane. Young people living as a minority in Finland create new spaces to communicate with other youth in order to protect democracy. It was April 2019 that I visited Sibelius Museum in Turku and witnessed the launch of Sahwira Literature Rhythms…
BodyTalks – Questioning the importance of thinness through theatre
Written by Anna Olkinuora Laiha on parempi ihminen asks us why is a person considered somehow better when thin. Thinner is better. It is more beautiful, desirable. Want to be successful? Get thin! Want more friends? Lose some weight! Teatteri Toivo wants to question this and speak up for those who do not fit…
HELSINKI DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL 2019: “I don’t hold a weapon, I only carry a camera. That´s a kind of weapon, or at least, that’s what I think”
Article written by Gloria De Felice DocPoint 2019, The Documentary Film Festival in Helsinki started on Monday, January 28, and ended on February 3. The event began through an inauguration party in Bio Rex Cinema with the documentary Gods of Molenbeek by Reetta Huhtanen. The film talks about two young children’s lives in the Molenbeek…
Amos Rex: the new museum in Helsinki. The first exhibition by teamLab: over 150 thousand visitors
written by Gloria De Felice & Mahdi Biagioli It was an early morning of November when we had a chance to visit the Helsinki based now popular museum Amos Rex in the hearth of the capital of Finland. We were tremendously intrigued to check it out. Every day we could observe a long line of…
31st Helsinki International Film Festival: It is a great event, but…
Article written by Gloria De Felice From the 20 to the 30th of September I had the opportunity to visit The International Helsinki Film Festival “Love and Anarchy” (Rakkautta ja Anarkiaa). It´s always a remarkable experience since it gives me the prospect to evolve my cultural and cinematography perspective. I discovered new films from all over…
“Helsinki Calling!” – a peaceful demonstration for human rights
On the 16th of July, there was the memorable meeting between US president Donald Trump and Russian president Vladimir Putin, in Helsinki. On the day before, Sunday, the city center was filled with people from different roots, nationalities, and cultures with a common intention: demonstrate against the meeting of those presidents. The peaceful march…
Hay Fever: It´s ShowTime!
Article written by Anna Olkinuora After visiting the rehearsals of Hay Fever just a couple of days before their premiere, I had high hopes for the performance. I have to say I definitely wasn’t disappointed. The whole cast was en pointe in the Thursday performance -and I am pretty sure this applied to all of…
Four Female artists living in Finland in a multicultural context: Their points of view
Article by Gloria De Felice Did you know that the number of people living in multicultural families in Finland is more than 300000, which is comparable, for instance, with the Swedish Speaking population in Finland? Based on the fact that many social organizations and institutions are using only Finnish and Swedish, how hard is…
Hay Fever: Noël Coward’s sharp comedy hits Helsinki
Text by Anna Olkinuora Hay Fever by Noel Coward Finn-Brit Players & Passport Theatre Directed by Adrian Goldman The Finn-Brit Players in co-production with Passport Theatre get together for the second time in Helsinki. This spring, they bring us Noel Coward’s comedy Hay Fever. I’ve been invited to the rehearsals the weekend before the…