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The Midnight Sun Film Festival is held every June in the Finnish village of Sodankylä beyond the arctic circle — where the sun never sets. Founded by Aki and Mika Kaurismäki along with Anssi Mänttäri and Peter von Bagh in 1985, the festival has played host to an international who’s who of directors and each day begins with a two-hour discussion. To mark the festival’s silver anniversary, festival director Peter von Bagh edited together highlights from these dialogues to create an epic four-part choral history of cinema drawn from the anecdotes, insights, and wisdom of his all-star cast: Coppola, Fuller, Forman, Chabrol, Corman, Demy, Kieslowski, Kiarostami, Varda, Oliveira, Erice, Rouch, Gilliam, Jancso — and 64 more. Ranging across innumerable topics (war, censorship, movie stars, formative influences, America, neorealism) these voices, many now passed away, engage in a personal dialogue across the years that’s by turns charming, profound, hilarious and moving. |
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The Business of Creativity
Gol Gana
Animation Outlaws
Las cinéphilas
In Bed with Surrealism. Augusts Sukuts
Il coraggio del leone
Broken Palace
Searching for Oscar
Steelers: The World's First Gay Rugby Club
The Critic
Cult of Terror
A Forbidden Orange
Danube
On the track to the midnight sun
Galore
Filmové festivaly 1949
Więcej światła. Festiwal operatorów filmowych Camerimage '97
Insomnia
Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy
Rifkin’s Festival
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