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MOVIES Sat 22.11. KokoTeatteri (Sauna in a Tent), approx. 11 p.m. Virkistysalue Thu 27.11. Q-teatteri at 5 p.m. Cleaning
up! KokoTeatteri Q-teatteri VIDEO SCREENINGS Sat 29.11. nonstop screenings Puoli-Q TICKETS: films at Q-teatteri 3 €,
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Baltic Circle Festival has something to offer to film enthusiasts as well. On Thursday 27th November there is an evening of film screenings at Q-teatteri. Each of the three films is linked one way or the other to the world of Baltic Circle. In Cleaning Up! a Finnish indie band tours Eastern Europe. Viesturs Kairiss, director of the Latvian film Leaving by the Way, visited previous Baltic Circle Festival as a theatre director. The poetic South.Border has its roots at the famed Derevo Theatre. In addition to the films, there will be nonstop video screenings at the Puoli-Q festival centre on Saturday 29th November. Amongst the videos will be Esto TV’s unsensored and brutally honest portrayal of Finns, and Finnish cult favorite Studio Julmahuvi: Jeriko 2000. ---- Finland, 19 min, comedy Time: Saturday 22.11. in conjuction
with Sauna in a Tent Club Credits: Directed by Jari Hietanen ---- Finland, 78 min, documentary, English subtitles Time: Thursday 27.11. at 5 p.m.
Documentary Cleaning up! follows the first foreign tour of Finnish cult band Cleaning Women. In a true road movie fashion the band zigzags through the Baltic countries on their way to appear on the Russian music television. Cleaning Women is known for its quirky sense of style (dressing up in women’s clothing) and original instrument choices (mostly cleaning equipment). See and hear Cleaning Women play live at the festival closing party at Gloria on Sat 29th November! Credits: Written and directed by Rostislav Aalto Won: Newport International Film Festival,
Best Documentary, 2003 ---- PA CELAM AIZEJOT (Leaving by the Way) Latvia, 90 mins., fiction, English subtitles Time: Thursday 27.11. at 7 p.m.,
Finnish premiere Leaving by the Way is a mystic drama based on one the of great Latvian tales, "Mad Dauka", about a child who walks across a frozen sea to investigate what exists beyond the horizon. In this adventure realism and dream-like scenes go hand in hand, as the boy experiences wonderful and new things. The film was shot in Latgale, one of the most isolated, wildest and remote provinces of Latvia. The director Viesturs Kairiss and The New Riga Theatre visited previous Baltic Circle Festival with his interpretation of Dostoyevsky’s The Idiot. Credits: Directed by Viesturs Kairiss Won: FIPRESCI Award, Riga International
Film Forum Arsenals 2002; Debut feature Jury Prize; Raindance Film
Festival 2002 ---- Russia/Germany, 59 mins., fiction, no dialog Time: Thursday 27.11. at 9 p.m.,
Finnish premiere South.Border is inspired by unpublished texts of Jorge Luis Borges. The film is a black-and-white cinematic poem. It is a surrealist reportage on a journey to south, to a border. Its influences range from Russian surrealism to Salvador Dali. The film was shot in Italy, Georgia, The Netherlands and Germany. Director Anton Adassinskij is the artistic director of Derevo Theatre. In Finland, Adassinskiji's plays have been performed e.g. at Tampere Theatre Festival. Anton Adassinskij talks about the philosophy behind the film: "One time you find yourself in a park, on a bench, looking into space, and for a second you forget which country you are in, whether it's morning or evening; you are pierced by a pang of loneliness, your heart becomes light and sad, what is important separates out from all the noise of the world, and the slipping, sliding shadows fill with meaning profound...Words come to mind..."South. Border" is my present to myself, a little window to the house I will never be able to build, a house of silver and light." Credits: Directed by Anton Adassinskij ---- |
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