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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Experiencing Asia in the middle of Helsinki // Explorando Asia en el centro de Helsinki
When I heard that there was an Asian film festival coming up in Helsinki, I knew I would have to take the time to go there. In Finland, Asian films are not known widely enough; I could say with some certainty that not many of us Finns have gotten the chance to see Bhutanese or…
Love&Anarchy 2016- Helsinki International Film Festival – Sing Street – Film Review in English
TITLE: Sing Street DIRECTOR and WRITER: John Carney YEAR: 2016 COUNTRY: Ireland Sing Street is an airy film that plays like a love letter to the 80s and its music. Set in Ireland during a time when people were immigrating to Britain for better opportunities, our young protagonists make the best of their surroundings by immersing themselves in…