Programme 2010
Screening schedule can be downloaded here  EC 2010 Screening Schedule (832 KB)
Please note that the screenings of Abbas Kiarostami's Certified Copy (Copie Conforme) and Oskar Santos' For the Good of Others (El mal ajeno) have been cancelled. Have a look at our news section for more information on programme changes.
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Photo © 2009 Corazón International /Gordon Timpen |
| This year's festival opens with Turkish-German director Fatih Akın's new
comedy Soul Kitchen, which is set in his home city of Hamburg. The film
centres around running a Greek restaurant and is full of soul. |
Photo © 2010 Nimbus Film / Per Arnesen |
| Espoo Ciné closes with Thomas Vinterberg's Submarino. The Danish director known for his dogma feature Celebration (Festen) brings us a dark drama about two estranged brothers trying to reconnect.
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Photo © 2009 Art Films production AFP / Terhi Kokkonen | | Opening the screenings in the Espoo Cultural Centre is Arto Halonen's Princess (Prinsessa). The film is based on a true story, portraying the life of Anna Lappalainen, who spent most of her life in a mental hospital seeing herself as a royal princess. Arto Halonen is one of Finland's leading documentarists and Prinsessa is his theatrical fiction debut.
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| New French cinema is represented by François Ozon's latest drama The Refuge (Le Refuge). The film tells the story of a young Parisian trying to rethink her life after falling pregnant and losing her boyfriend to a drug overdose. Ozon's film is a perceptive character study, which slowly draws the viewer closer.
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Photo © TIBO & ANOUCHKA / Les films du Kiosque |
| Espoo Ciné also presents Emmanuel Bercot's Student Services (Mes chères études), which is based on a novel written under the alias Laura D. In the controversial film, a young woman decides to finance her studies through prostitution. What first seems like an easy way to earn, soon turns into a downward spiral.
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Photo Scanbox Entertainment Finland |
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Fresh from Cannes Film Festival to Espoo Ciné arrives
Olivier Assayas' Carlos, which is an epic story of the infamous
terrorist known as The Jackal. Assayas' ambitious film spans through two decades of The Jackal's life under many pseudonyms and follows the violent phases of the international terrorist organization he lead.
Espoo Ciné audiences will have the unique opportunity to see the full-lenght 5½-hour version of the film on the big screen.
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Photo © Sony Pictures Classics |
| Also arriving from Cannes is Woody Allen's latest You
Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger. The London-set film revolves around tangled lovelives and is boasting an
all-star cast including Antonio Banderas, Naomi Watts and Anthony
Hopkins. |
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 | | The repertoir of Finnish films contains Juho Kuosmanen's The Painting Sellers (Taulukauppiaat), which was recently awarded as the best of the Cinéfondation student film series by the Cannes jury. The film tells the story of two middle-aged painting forgerers and a young man who gets hired as their driver. Taulukauppiaat portrays life below the poverty line with a grimly realistic touch, but it is also an offbeat depiction of a very unlikely friendship.
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