By Jessica Duncanson Director: Aki Kaurismäki LOCO Film Festival 2017 review Aki Kaurismäki’s The Other Side of Hope follows Syrian asylum-seeker Khaled (Sherwan Haji), who arrives in Finland after stowing away on a coal ship. […]
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By Amy Faulkner Directed by Arto Halonen Watch A Patriotic Man on FilmDoo Only earlier on today the headline jumped out at me on my Twitter newsfeed: “Doping allegations ‘a declaration of war’ on athletics- Lord […]
Known for Minerva (1997), Cyclomania (2001) and Open Up to Me (2013), Finnish film director, screenwriter, actor and author Simo Halinen, is making Finland proud of its cinema. With a sold out UK premiere of his latest work […]