Social Issues & Human Stories Film Event

November 8th to 10th at Cinema Orion, Helsinki.

Fictions and documentaries, features and shorts, from closeby and afar.

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Friday, November 8th

6pm
LES MISERABLES 

France 2019, dir. Ladj Ly (102min / English subtitles)
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8pm
SORRY WE MISSED YOU

UK 2019, dir. Ken Loach (100min / Finnish subtitles)

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9.30pm
FESTIVAL CLUB


@ Buenos Aires (Eerikinkatu 24)

Music & casual discussions.

Free entry!

Saturday, November 9th

1pm
TOISINAJATTELIJA

Finland 2019, dir. Georg Grotenfelt (Documentary / 26min) 

+ Q&A with director Georg Grotenfelt!

(2pm)

AKTIVISTI 

Finland 2017, dir. Petteri Saario (Documentary / 56min)

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+ DISCUSSION! Activists Riikka Karppinen, Aino Falenius and director Petteri Saario. Moderator: writer, journalist Iida Simes. (In Finnish)

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4.30pm
HUMANITY ON TRIAL

Denmark/Finland 2019, dir. Jonas Bruun (Documentary / 75min / English Subtitles) 

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6pm
RABBIT À LA BERLIN
(Królik po berlinsku)

Poland 2009, dir. Bartosz Konopka (Documentary / 50min / English subtitles)

30 years from the fall of the Berlin Wall!

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7pm
WOMAN AT WAR
(Kona fer í stríð)

Iceland 2018, dir. Benedikt Erlingsson (101min / Finnish & Swedish Subtitles)

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9pm
SYSTEM CRASHER
(Systemsprenger)

Germany 2019, dir. Nora Fingscheidt (118min / Finnish & Swedish Subtitles)

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Sunday, November 10th

Noon
KUNNIAKIERROS
 

Finland 2019, ohj. Lotta-Kaisa Riistakoski (Documentary / 40min)
*FREE ENTRY – FATHER’S DAY!

+ Q&A with the filmmakers!

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2pm
PAPPI. PUNKKARI. ANARKISTI.
 

Finland 2019, dir. Olli Laine (Documentary / 28min)

(2.30pm)
THE REFORMIST – A FEMALE IMAM
(Reformisten – den kvindelige imam)

Denmark, dir. Marie Skovgaard (Documentary / 88min / English Subtitles)

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4pm
YKSITTÄISTAPAUS
 

Finland/Sweden 2019, dir. Elli Toivoniemi, Kirsikka Saari, Anna Paavilainen, Alli Haapasalo, Reetta Aalto, Jenni Toivoniemi ja Miia Tervo, Inari Niemi, Tine Alavi, Sonya Lindfors, Aino Suni, Ulla Heikkilä. (11 short films / Total duration 122min / English subtitles) 

+ DISCUSSION: Directors Alli Haapasalo and Inari Niemi and writer Raisa Omaheimo. Moderated by media researcher, professor Anu Koivunen

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6.45pm
SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR
(Portrait de Simone de Beauvoir) 

France 1974, dir. Alice Schwarzer (Documentary / 44min / English Subtitles)

Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre discuss their philosophies on women, work and life in Paris in 1974.

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7.45pm
INVISIBLES 
(LES INVISIBLES)

France, dir. Louis-Julien Petit (102min / English Subtitles)

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