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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HELSINKI DOCPOINT2019: Il potere dei documentari
Quest’anno, il festival annuale dei documentari cinematografici internazionali ad Helsinki è iniziato lunedì 28 gennaio e si è concluso domenica 3 febbraio. L’evento è stato inaugurato con la proiezione del documentario Gods of Molenbeek , diretto dalla regista finlandese Reetta Huhtanen. Il film parla della quotidianità di due bambini che vivono nell’area di Molenbeek, una zona di…
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…
Doc Point 2018: a documentary director can change people´s mind
Article written by Gloria De Felice Italian version / Articolo in Italiano We are living in a saturated society, covered by a crowd of news and data. We are living in the era of why, with a focus on appearance and the free knowledge. Nonetheless, we feel we are more ignorant than the day…
Multicultural Finland Independence Day #Mippi100: It would have been a memorable event if../ Sarebbe stato un evento indimenticabile se non..
If an event is promoted in two languages, Finnish and English, and it is dedicated to multiculturalism, you might expect, at least, that the show abides by the same intention. On last December 6, Finland celebrated its 100 years of Independence. Many monuments in Helsinki and around the world were lit up in blue to…
Cinemaissí 2017: Violence against women / Violenza sulle donne
Cinemaissí, the Helsinki Latin American Film festival, is organized in the capital of Finland every autumn (19 October-22 October this year). I recently wrote an article related to the last year’s festival thus if you are interested I would recommend reading the article from this link. This time, I decided to focus on a specific and…
30th Helsinki International Film Festival: 4 films that will change your life / 4 film che cambieranno la tua vita
The 30th Helsinki International Film Festival took place between the 14th to 24th of September. During this cinema event, named Rakkautta ja Anarkiaa (Love and Anarchy), 175 feature films and 190 shorts were screened. It hosted numerous guests and welcomed 60000 visitors. This year, I decided to publish a piece more peculiar than the usual…
Flow Festival 2017: Jenny Hval
Vampires. Love. Sex. Gender. Death. Blood. These are some frequented themes in Jenny Hval‘s work. Formerly known as Rockettothesky, Jenny Hval has released numerous albums under her name. Her performance at Flow Festival 2017 was following her latest album Blood Bitch on Sacred Bones Records. Before her set, rain started pouring down outside. People trying…
Flow Festival: why it is one of the most popular events in Helsinki (Eng/Ita)
Flow Festival is a remarkable event involving music, art and culture settled in the Finnish capital, Helsinki. This year, the event took place close to the hub of the city, in Suvilahti, from 11 to 13 August 2017. The festival sold out, hosting more than 75,000 people during the whole three days. I was very…
Nur met Cinemaissí, the Latin American Film Festival
Cinemaissí is a Latin American film festival, held yearly in Helsinki. It lasts around a week and it organizes mostly the screening of films and documentaries from Spanish and Latin American directors. A MAIN TOPIC There is always a main topic. During the 2016 edition, for example, the main subject was the legitimations of the…