Saturday, 19th June: MORNING CONVERSATION WITH PEDRO COSTA

”A film crew always looks a bit ridiculous on the streets. When you see photos of directors, they are always pointing at something. I have no idea what they’re pointing at! Nobody advises me on where to put the camera. I have to figure that out myself." Read more>>


Friday, 18th June: MORNING CONVERSATION WITH TERENCE DAVIES

”I’m not part of the mainstream, so finding funding is a problem for me. The English have a tendency to copy Americans in everything they do. We try to do what they do, but with less money. I don’t understand why we don’t have faith in our own stories”, the director wonders and says that he hopes England will find the courage to tell America to “get lost!”. Read more>>


Thursday, 17th June: Master Class by BERNARD EISENSCHITZ (Fritz Lang: The Big Heat)

In the first Master Class of the 2010 Midnight Sun Film Festival, film historian Bernard Eisenschitz kept a short lecture on Fritz Lang’s The Big Heat (USA, 1953). The central topic of the lecture was the style of the versatile director. Alfred Hitchcock once said that he watches Lang’s films to see how they have been made, but that despite this he always ends up seeing ”just the film”. Read more>>



Wednesday, 16th June: MORNING CONVERSATION WITH VESA-MATTI LOIRI

Vesa-Matti Loiri is a great Finnish entertainer and artist with a strong working morale. Loiri grew up in Helsinki in a poor but culture-loving family. He read the works of Eino Leino, attended symphony concerts with his family and half by accident ended up watching the films of Ingmar Bergman and Akira Kurosawa. Read more>>



Thursday, 17th June: DIRECTOR ANSSI MÄNTTÄRI AWARDED THE 2010 SODANKYLÄ PRIZE

Since 1988, The Midnight Sun Film Festival has awarded a prize to a Finnish individual who has enriched Finnish film culture in a significant way. This year the prize was awarded for the 23rd time and it was given to film director Anssi Mänttäri by Peter von Bagh, the Festival Director. Read more>>