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13 June 2009: MORNING DISCUSSION WITH SERGEI DVORTSEVOY

"Great directors are only God’s assistants", points out the director of the magnificent Tulpan, Sergey Dvortsevoy. Read more >>




12 June 2009: PRESS CONFERENCE OF FATIH AKIN

German-Turkish movie director Fatih Akin (b. 1973), one of the main guests of Sodankylä Midnight Sun Film Festival 2009, met representatives of the press friday afternoon at Hotel Sodankylä. Read more >>




12 June 2009: MORNING DISCUSSION WITH JOHN BOORMAN

Boorman became a movie director after working with television. In the beginning of his career he made culture programmes and documentaries for BBC. The former documentary filmmaker compares cinema to a dream. "You go to a dark room to see a movie, and it is like falling asleep." Read more >>


11 June 2009: MASTER CLASS: PAOLO MEREGHETTI

Italian movie critic Paolo Mereghetti introduced Mario Monicelli's movie Cops and Robbers (Guardie e ladri, Italy 1951) at the first Master Class screening of Sodankylä Midnight Sun Film Festival 2009. Read more >>


11 June 2009: PRESS CONFERENCE OF JOHN BOORMAN

English movie director John Boorman (b. 1933), the main guest of Sodankylä Midnight Sun Film Festival 2009, met the representatives of media thursday afternoon in a press conference at Hotel Sodankylä. Read more >>


11 June 2009: MORNING DISCUSSION WITH ROBERT GUÉDIGUIAN

"I don't want to do anything what has been already done. Instead I take risks that I am aware of. I don't write stories because something works well. There always has to be a risk involved so that I can maintain my motivation", tells French director Robert Guédiguian. Read more >>