Helsinki Documentary Film Festival 2012
Helsinki Documentary Film Festival 24 - 29 January 2012
Docpoint Tallinn screens fresh, relevant and daring documentaries, but also experimental art documentaries and poetical films.
The 2012 program includes a record amount of films - altogether 35 films, added to by the best Estonian documentaries from all times in celebration of Estonian film's 100th anniversary.
The main program screens an array of winning films from the biggest festivals, including the IDFA main-prize holder "Planet of Snail", an audience's favourite "5 Broken Cameras", the SXSW (South by Southwest) festival's audience award winner "Kumare", the winning film at the Copenhagen film festival CPH: DOX - "Two Years at Sea"; "Lost Land", main prize winner at Jihlava Film Festival (Czech Republic) and altogether four films from among the DOK Leipzig prized films: "Water Children", "Phnom Penh Lullaby", "Life in Stills" and "I Will Forget This Day".
International documentary film makers meet at the DocPoint Festival
A large and varied group of documentary film makers around the world gathers in Helsinki when the 11th DocPoint – Helsinki Documentary Film Festival kicks off at 24th January.
The main guest of the festival is the Israeli director Eyal Sivan, who has been dealing critically with the political situations in the Middle East and Europe. Also the producer of the popular God Bless Ozzy Osbourne, Marc Weingarten, arrives in Helsinki. This documentary shows the rock icon to be everything but the pathetic zombie we got to know from The Osbournes tv-series.
Also Aliona van der Horst, the director of the shaking Water Children, and the protagonist of the film, an artist Tomoko Mukaiyama, who has been making art out of menstrual blood, visit the festival – as well as Vikram Gandhi, the the director of the bubbling documentary about a fake guru, Kumarén.
As an answer to the requests from the audience, DocPoint has included an extra film in its programme. Anu Kuivalainen's award winning Aranda (2011) follows the journey and everyday life of the marine research vessel at the Baltic Sea. The film is screened on Sunday 29th Jan at 6 pm at Kinopalatsi.
A head start for the festival happens on Sat 21th Jan along with Tatiana Huezo Sánchez's film The Tiniest Place – a dreamlike depiction about an alpine society destroyed in the civil war, fighting for the survival. The film is screened at the Maxim cinema at 5.30 pm.
The 11th DocPoint – Helsinki Documentary Film Festival takes place at the cinemas of Helsinki city centre on 24th – 29th Jan 2012. The ticket pre-sales has started at DocPoint e-commerce, at Bio Rex ticket pre-sales offices and at Finnkino...
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