Filmid 2012

 The father of the modern documentary who directed the first commercially successful documentary, Nanook of the North (1922) and staged nearly every scene in the film. A great...

 ”I believe that we who were tortured will never be the same.” Hector recalls the events that happened over 40 years ago. Mervi Junkkonen’s Jälki el...

 Finnsurf is the first Finnish surf-film. A wild guess is that it’s also the world’s only surf-film in which someone surfs with an icicle attached to their...

 It’s misty and grey. A long bridge crosses the river. The hospital corridor leading to the operating room feels long as well as the camera captures young women with long black-and-...

 Masao Adachi is a Japanese writer-director who is best known for his politically radical films of the 1960s...

Kumaré is a hilarious film about the expedition of conquest of a fake guru. Director Vikram Gandhi wants to field test what people are ready to believe in. He...

 Svetlana is waiting for death in her apartment. The cancer has spread throughout her body, and she has only a few weeks left. Still, she meets her friends and relatives. She speaks with her...

 The rain whips the windows of an apartment building. Korean Young-Chang reaches out the window to the sky, not caring about the raindrops dribbling down his arms. "Standing water feels...

 In the middle of the desert in Arizona lies a magical little town, Surprise. It is protected by a perimeter wall; everything is clean, quiet and safe. There is no need to leave home, or to...

 Waves roll towards Henua, a small island in the Pacific Ocean, South of the equator. Soon they will devour a wooden dwelling and float its kitchen to the open sea. An inhabitant...

 Boxing can be practised against the soles of slippers. Going to a shopping centre and pretending for a moment to be bike shopping for one’s son can be used to escape a modest day-to-...