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…
DocPoint Film Festival: il regista di documentari può cambiare il mondo
Articolo scritto da Gloria De Felice Click here for the English version / Clicca qui per la versione in inglese Viviamo in una società satura, ricoperta da una moltitudine di notizie, di informazioni. Viviamo nel mondo del perché, dell´apparenza, della conoscenza libera. Nonostante tutto ci sentiamo più ignoranti di quando siamo venuti al mondo…
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…
My First Feminist Festival Experience in Russia // La mia prima esperienza ad un festival femminista in Russia
When you read the sentence Feminism in Russia, you might associate it with: violence, naked women, occupations, and imprisonments. Dismally, this is what most of the media in the rest of Europe show on mainstream news. When I got invited in September 2017 to the feminist festival in Saint Petersburg organized by Eve´s Ribs project,…
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…
Helsinki Cine Aasia 2017: Asian aesthetics, language and tradition
Cine Asia is a film festival in Helsinki which allows viewers to revel in the Asian film industry and culture. More precisely, it shows movies from east and east-south Asia. It is the only film Asian film festival in Finland. If you have always been interested in films like me, you may have noticed that…
Кинофестиваль DocPoint
DocPoint Festival, 23-29.1.2017, Helsinki It is possible to get to know something about a new culture or subculture during one week if to put up an aim to do so and find an efficient way to approach. Nevertheless, one week will probably turn up to be too short time for building up trustful relationships and…