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| | For the Press | | | | AccreditationRegistrations for 21st Espoo Ciné (2010) are closed. Unfortunately we cannot accept any accreditations during the festival.
Press conferences & releasesThe first press conference of the 21st Espoo Ciné International Film
Festival was held on May 26th in collaboration with the Midnight Sun
Film Festival. You can find the press realease below or download it as a
PDF file here:
 Media release 26-5-2010 (25.7 KB)
For further information,
please contact press officer Mickael Suominen
(mickael.suominen(at)espoocine.fi).
Please click here for
printable pictures of the 2009 festival.
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| | Fatih Akın's Soul Kitchen to open Espoo Ciné IFF | | | | The 21st edition of Espoo Ciné International Film Festival takes place
on August 20-29, 2010 in Espoo, Finland. The festival opens with Fatih Akın's latest film Soul Kitchen, a music-driven comedy about a Greek
restaurateur. The events of the film take place in the director's
hometown, Hamburg. The festival's closing film is Thomas Vinterberg's
Submarino, a hard-hitting and controversial masterpiece straight from
the competition programme of the Berlinale telling the story of two
brothers who have drifted apart.
The hard core of the festival
programme is formed by new European drama. French films feature strongly
in this year's selection, which includes The Refuge, the latest film by
François Ozon starring Isabelle Carré in her last weeks of pregnancy,
Going South, a film full of summer and youthful glow by Sébastien
Lifshitz, and Hadewijch, Bruno Dumont's psychological portrayal of
fanatic faith. One of the most discussed French films of 2010 so far has
been Emmanuelle Bercot's Student Services, based on the
autobiographical novel of "Laura D." from a few years ago whose
protagonist is a young student who finances her studies by means of
prostitution. A special Italian flavour is added to the programme by the
festival's long-time favourite filmmaker Ferzan Özpetek's latest film
Loose Cannons.
Films confirmed to the line-up straight from
Cannes include Olivier Assayas' epic Carlos, based on the story of the
most famous terrorist of the past century, the legendary Jackal, and
Woody Allen's latest, entitled You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger.
The
Méliès d'Argent competition programme for European fantasy films
features Amer, the debut feature by the established short film directors
Hélène Catet and Bruno Forzani that recently won the debutante Grand
PIX at CPH PIX in Copenhagen, and Vampires, a blood-soaked vampire
comedy directed by Vincent Lannoo, which won the Audience Award at the
Brussels Fantastic Film Festival.
Espoo Ciné was extended from
six to ten days in 2009. The 2010 edition starts in the newly renovated
Kino Tapiola, and expands after the initial weekend to the Espoo
Cultural Centre and the Bio Rex Sello in Leppävaara. The complete
festival programme features approximately 100 films and will be
published in July on week 29 on the festival's website.
This year the festival also launches collaboration with the Espoo Museum
of Modern Art (EMMA): an exhibition entitled Expo Ciné, arranged
jointly by the festival and the museum within the museum's premises,
will investigate the latest developments of digital cinema. To celebrate
U2's shows in Helsinki in August, the festival's traditional outdoor
screening will this year feature Phil Joanou's concert film U2: Rattle
and Hum.
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