Midnight Sun Film Festival 2014 begins tomorrow
Cinephiles from all over the world gather in Sodankylä once again. The 29th annual Midnight Sun Film Festival 2014 (June 11th-15th) will start this Wednesday and four silver screens will be filled with quality film 24 hours a day until Sunday evening.
The official opening screening will be held at the Lapinsuu cinema at 8PM, when Peter von Bagh invites a grand master of Russian cinema, Gleb Panfilov, to introduce his pulse-raising masterpiece The Beginning. Inna Churikova, Panfilov’s fiancée and The Beginning’s staggering lead actress, is also present. This couple has been wooed to come to Sodankylä for years.
Yet even before the opening celebration, the audience has the opportunity to enjoy the pleasures of cinema at 4PM in the advance screening of Richard Ayoade’s black comedy The Double, double starring Jesse Eisenberg. At 4:15PM, festival’s music programme begins with Twenty Feet From Stardom.
Our traditional children’s film screenings are organized by Finnish Film Contact.
All of our festival guests are present at the opening screening. Cannes-winner Mahamet-Saleh Haroun from Chad will introduce his tour de force Grigris at 10:30PM at Lapinsuu. At the same time, the German guru Olaf Möller begins our master class parade by introducing the cult film The Night Caller.
Our fabulous French guest Katell Quillévéré presents her film Suzanne at 0:45AM in Lapinsuu. At the same time, our domestic director guest Juha Wuolijoki hosts a screening of his film Zarra's Law, shot in the U.S. and starring Sopranos-star Tony Sirico and Hollywood legend Burt Young. And only a few hours later, director master Gleb Panfilov will join Peter von Bagh in Thursday's morning discussion.
