Sunday, March 13, 2011

Tampere Film Festival 2011: National Competition

D = documentary, F = fiction, A = animation, E = experimental

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OMAA LUOKKAANSA / Look at Me / [A League of Her Own] | Iiris Härmä | D | 68' 2010 - Digibeta. Strong portrait of a teacher's fight to help her teenage students who risk becoming marginalized.*

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IKUISESTI SINUN / Forever Yours | Mia Halme | D | 79' | 2011 - DCP. Powerfully intimate account of children taken into custody.

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SALLA - SELLING THE SILENCE Markku Tuurna | D | 70' | 2010 - DCP. A dramatic and many-sided portrait of the survival fight of the municipality of Salla in Lapland. *

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BOHEEMI ELÄÄ / Bohemian Eyes | Janne Kuusi | D | 75' | 2010. - Digibeta. The portrait of Matti Pellonpää. An artist's deeply felt tribute to a fellow artist and a life-long friend. *

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TAULUKAUPPIAAT / The Painting Sellers. | Juho Kuosmanen | F | 58' | 2010. - Digibeta. It's almost Christmas, and three people try to get paintings sold in the periphery.

PLAY GOD | Teemu Nikki | D | 39' | 2010. - Digibeta. A funny and crazy documentary of the director's failed splatter film project.*

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TUNTEMATON EMÄNTÄ / The Unknown Woman | Elina Kivihalme | D | 78' | 2011. - DCP. The forgotten story of the homefront ordeal during WWII. Sometimes it got even worse when the heroes returned from the front. *

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PEOPLE IN WHITE | Tellervo Kalleinen, Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen | D | 64' | 2011. - Digibeta. Ten mental patients act out their experiences in mental health care.

PÄIVÄT KUIN UNTA / Beauty Sleep | Elias Koskimies | F | 46' | 2010. - Digibeta. Drag queens kidnap the wife of a MP famous for his homophobic remarks. The crazy gear is not far from young Almodóvar. *

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HÄR KOMMER OBAMA / Here Comes Obama | Iina Terho | D | 6' | 2009. - Digibeta. A black ram faces a good day's work.
LIV | Johan Karrento | F | 15' | 2010. - Digibeta. The 9-year-old girl spices the punch of his father and his new boyfriend.
THE ILLUSTRATED CITY | Jan Andersson | A | 5' | 2010. - Dvd. A fine film about the graffiti history of a wall, strong music. *
PUITA JA SEMMOSIA / Trees and Such | Markus Lehmusruusu | F | 12' | 2011. - Blu-ray. In a snowless city a man lives estranged from the nature.
KUTSUN ITSEÄNI TERVEEKSI / I Call Myself Sane | Niina Suominen | E | 5' | 2010. - Digibeta. An exercise in the experimental film tradition, manipulating film material.
MITEN MARJOJA POIMITAAN / How to Pick Berries | Elina Talvensaari | D | 19' | 2010. - Digibeta. An excellent documentary on the cultural clash when Thai cloudberry pickers appear in Northern Finland. *
KIELITIETTYNI / The Tongueling | Elli Vuorinen | A | 4' | 2010. - Digibeta. A funny animation on the subject of tasting with one's tongue.
ILMAN SANOJA / Not a Word | Joel Siitonen | F | 18' | 2010. - Bluray. An Englishwoman comes to stay with her Finnish boyfriend, but the young son communicates a family secret.

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ERÄÄN HYÖNTEISEN TUHO / The Death of an Insect | Hannes Vartiainen, Pekka Veikkolainen | A | 7' | 2010. - DCP. An ambitious and original animation, visually impressive. *
MAA JOSSA VOI LEIKKIÄ ELÄMÄÄ / Land for Playing Out Life | Sanni Priha | E | 13' | 2010. - Digibeta. An exploration about the traces of the landscape, in the director's home landscape in Kainuu.
JOULUN SYDÄN / Heart of Christmas | Henrik Röman | F | 10' | 2010. - Dvd. A father and a son facing each other before Christmas.
SIELUNSIEPPAAJA / Soul Catcher | PV Lehtinen | D | 14' | 2011. - 35 mm / DCP. Exploring the belief that taking an image one can lose one's soul. A noble and visually excellent vision. *
NIELE PELKOSI II / Swallow Your Fears II | Laura Rytkönen | A | 2' | 2010. - Dvd. Drawn animation: a young woman plays a game with fear and gets swallowed.
ONNI | Lauri Anssi Moilanen | F | 13' | 2010. - Blu-ray. The son, a drug addict is dead. The father goes to meet the drug dealer with a knife in his hand.
SIURUAN RUBENS / Rubens of Siurua | Erkki Määttänen | D |30' | 2010. - Digibeta. A portrait of Kari Tykkyläinen, a video artist from Pudasjärvi in Northern Ostrobothnia. He has produced a thousand clips to YouTube on the local nature and nude mud-wrestling with local housewives. He is also a serious Sophia Loren collector. Crazy folk art in the age of Warhol and the internet. *

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HEAVEN SHALL BURN: COMBAT | Jessica Koivistoinen, Jan Andersson | A | 4' | 2010. - Dvd. Animated heavy metal music video on child soldiers.
LOHIKÄÄRMERANTA / The Dragon Beach | Aada Sigurlina Niilola, Waimar Nyunt | D | 19' | 2010. - Digibeta. Mixing documentary with animation, this is actually an experimental film about the occult sensations of a Burmese woman.
CIRCLE | Minna Parkkinen | E | 6' |2010. - Digibeta. A visual poem, with changing light, and contrast, transitions to negative, towards beauty.
VIERAAT SEINÄT / Strange Walls | Martta Tuomaala, Mikko Keskiivari | F | 17' |2011. - Blu-ray. The grandfather and the teenage girl live in a quiet village, until strangers appear.
HELSINGIN KESÄ / Summer in Helsinki | Maria Björklund | A | 9' | 2011. - Digibeta. An animation in simple watercolour and ink, the story of the summer in the city.
TUNARIT / The Duffers | Vesa Manninen | F | 31' | 2010. - Blu-ray. A crime story about small-time criminals who get caught in a terrible vortex.

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SWEET MOV(I)E | Jan Ijäs | E | 4' | 2010. - Digibeta. Split-screen sex parody, men and women in separate images, fully clothed, make the moves.
VOITKO RAKASTAA / Could You Love | Johanna Vanhala | D |15' | 2010. - Digibeta. Finding a way via home movies to the mother's falling into schizophrenia.
SOITTO-OPPILAS / Learning to Play | JP Saari | A | 9' | 2010. - Digibeta. An animation inspired by Miyazaki's Totoro, painted and with drawn outlines. The ocarina playing boy meets the giant frog king of the forest.
POTILAS / The Patient | Misko Iho | F | 17' | 2010. - Blu-ray. The guard in his graveyard shift meets a strange angel (Tommi Korpela).
PELASTAKAA SARVIKUONOT / Save the Rhinoceros | Malakias | A | 6' |2011. - Digibeta. A bulletin to save the rhinoceros, very efficient. *
KIRKONKYLÄ KYRKBY | Elise Pietarila | F | 15' | 2010. - Digibeta. Pasi, a small town boy on the seventh grade, collects rules made by adults. A wonderful and original sense of humour in the storytelling. *
FORGET ME NOT! | Reeta Laine | A | 5' | 2010. - Dvd. Stop motion animation with a wooden robot and a stork sculpture participating in the girl's morning ritual.
ILMIANTO / Informers | Milla Pelkonen | F | 26' | 2010. - Digibeta. A strong and fine drama about Niko, who gets seriously suspected of planning a school killing, although it is just a prank of a very inconsiderate schoolmate. A girl devises an ingenuous plan to help. *

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