Tag: Finnish Cinema
Interview: Tia Kouvo – Family Time
We sat with director Tia Kouvo to talk about her directorial debut, Family Time, which premiered in the Encounters program of the 2024 Berlin...
Fallen Leaves | Review
All the Leaves Are Brown: Kaurismaki’s Song for the Lonely
Finnish auteur Aki Kaurismäki adds a fourth chapter to his thematic Proletariat Trilogy with...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #34. Aki Kaurismäki’s Fallen Leaves
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The Finnish master filmmaker might have slightly slowed down with a one feature pace every half dozen years or so which means a...
Forget the Rake: Aki Kaurismäki Sets up Tragicomedy “Dead Leaves” with Alma Pöysti
Some surprising news from Variety (from one of our own in Cannes Critics Panel journalist Marta Balaga) this morning with an update on Finnish...
The Woodcutter Story | 2022 Cannes Film Festival Review
One Flew Over the Cuckold’s Nest: Myllylahti Contends Hope Floats in Black Comedy
By their nature, fables provide fanciful cinematic avenues of metaphorical expression as...
Hatching | Review
The Egg & I: Bergholm Births Straightforward Tween Body Horror
Finland’s Hanna Bergholm makes a splash with her interesting, if ultimately one-note debut, Hatching,...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #71. Mikko Myllylahti’s The Woodcutter Story
The Woodcutter Story
A TorinoFilmLab and Cinéfondation lab selection, and winner of the Critics' Week's Next Step Award, there is a lot of forward momentum...
Video Interview: Zaida Bergroth & Alma Pöysti – Tove
Finland’s official submission for the ‘Best International Feature’ category at the 93rd Academy Awards in 2021 is Tove, the fifth film from Zaida Bergroth,...
Video Interview: Teemu Niukkanen & Antti Toivonen – Are You Hungry? (Short Film) 2020 Sundance Film Festival
Making their second Park City trip in just as many outings with 2020's Are You Hungry? following in the footsteps of Fucking Bunnies (2017), the...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #113. Nimby – Teemu Nikki
Nimby
Finland’s Teemu Nikki scored an international breakthrough with his sophomore film, the sardonic Euthanizer. He reteams with his producer Jani Poso for German-Finnish co-prod...
One Last Deal | 2018 Toronto Intl. Film Festival Review
Art to Art: Haro Conjures Another Character Study in Crowd-pleasing Drama
Much like his contemporary Dome Karukoski, Finnish director Klaus Härö is one of his...