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Program
Focus Finland # 1 |
October 10th, 2011 / 7 pm
Institut Finlandais
Cité Universitaire / Paris |
Little Snow Animal |
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Miia Tervo
Finland
2009 | Digital | 0:19:00
It's not wrong to want love - you just need to look for it in the right place.
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How to Pick Berries |
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Elina Talvenssari
Finland
2010 | Digital | 0:19:00
Visitors from a distant place appear in the misty swamps of Northern Finland. As harmless as they are, their foreign presence unwittingly disrupts the peace of local inhabitants. They have come to look for berries, an activity that all of a sudden seems to embody all the values of the local culture. Who is to blame and where do the profits end up? How to Pick Berries is an exploration of the Finnish mind and the absurdities of the global economy
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Could you love |
Voitko Rakasta |
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Johanna Vanhala
Finland
2010 | Digital | 0:15:00
Mother and daughter are looking for moments they could share over a telephone conversation after twenty-four years of absence in each other’s lives.
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The Death of Insect |
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Hannes Varttiainen, Pekka Veikkolainen
Finland
2011 | Digital | 0:07:00
In an urban landscape without life where time itself has stopped flowing, a mad ballet begins and a butterfly newly born baby is dying.
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Wrong |
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Mika J. Ripatti
Finland
2008 | Digital | 0:08:00
A depressed man is lying in a hotel room. He converses in a fantasy way with his ex-wife of the reasons for their divorce. "Actors"of this film are speech synthesizers.
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Trees and Such |
Puita ja Semmosia |
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Markus Lehmusruusu
Finland
2011 | Digital | 0:11:40
A man lives in a gray city and he realizes that something is missing in his life. A short film on happiness in a world far from nature.
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Whispering in a friend's mouth |
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Hannaleena Hauru
Finland
2009 | Digital | 0:10:00
Two friends, who are painting graffiti onto a shop window in their home village in central Finland, have ended up kissing. The experimental short film, which juxtaposes events happening in two different times, examines the border between platonic and romantic love.
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Negretina |
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Hanna Ojamo
Finland
2011| Digital | 0:04:11
"Negretina", is an experimental short film about the 1920s and 30s in Europe based on found footage film material. The film is based on original 1920s and 1930s Pathé film material in 9.5mm format. The music for the film, a classical contemporary piece for orchestra and choir, Agua Nocturna, is composed by Lasse Enersen (FIN). The 1920s and 1930s in Europe was an era of strong political changes, economical downturn and the rise of right-wing politics and fascism in Germany. In the focus of the found footage is a small girl called Negretina. Combining different styles of the era, the film depicts impressions from a time in history.
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October 5th - 16th 2011
We present film series focused on different countries and regions. This section intends to discover and explore different spaces and cultures with the aim to understand the specific regional, political and social circumstances, do reconstruct the emotional and intellectual spécificities of a special region or country. In this critical work we belief it's essencial to prefer films which rufuse, in its form and expression, the retake of sterotype ways of reality restituition, as an act of resistance in the actual period of "globalisation", which inclins to impose one dominating model of culture and habitutes..
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