Viewers report on the Sodankylä movie pageant – The pageant appeals to ascertain movie golf equipment – Muricas News

Sodankylän the movie pageant reached a brand new viewers report this yr. In line with the press launch printed by the pageant, the movie occasion that ended on Sunday attracted a complete of 35,000 guests. There have been 64 sold-out exhibits.

This yr’s hottest film was Aki Kaurismäki Awarded at Cannes Useless leaves (2023), which had its Finnish premiere in Sodankylä. Three sold-out screenings of Kaurismäki’s movie had been proven.

Sodankylä’s friends this yr included a Ukrainian director Sergei Loznitsa, by David Lynch editor-director who usually labored with Mary Sweeney and a French actor-director Emmanuel Mouret.

At a film get together a petition was printed on behalf of movie golf equipment.

“Fifty years in the past, movie golf equipment targeted on watching high quality movies had been a socially vital cultural motion with greater than 200 golf equipment and round 20,000 members throughout Finland, however immediately the golf equipment have virtually disappeared from our nation,” the petition reads.

The petition requires revitalizing movie membership actions by using all out there presentation codecs.

“Fill Finland with the excellent news of the film!” the attraction ends.

The movie membership petition has been signed by, amongst others, the Kaurismäki brothers, the director Juho KuosmanenCEO of the Finnish Movie Basis Lasse Saarinenthe movie critic of Keskipohjanmaa Hannu Björkbacka and the Minister of Overseas Affairs Pekka Haavisto.