Ansa and Holappa meet by chance in a karaoke bar in Helsinki. There's instant chemistry between the two, but life always finds ways to put stumbling blocks in the path of those seeking happiness.
Fallen Leaves Kuolleet lehdet
Kaurismäki’s “fourth part of the proletariat trilogy” is a tender tragicomedy about two lonely souls seeking love in a time of economic inequality, war, and uncertainty. Winner of the Cannes Jury Prize and the Grand Prix of The International Film Critics Award (FIPRESCI) for Best Film of the Year.
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Wisdom of Happiness Wisdom of Happiness
Barbara Miller, Philip Delaquis
Thursday, 18. 09. 2025 / 18:30 / Small Hall
With disarming wit, the Dalai Lama reflects on balancing millennia-old Tibetan Buddhist traditions with the contemporary values of our globalised society that now struggles to overcome violence and war while standing on the brink of environmental collapse.
Yunan Yunan
Ameer Fakher Eldin
Thursday, 18. 09. 2025 / 19:30 / Main Hall
The Hamburg-based director of Palestinian-Syrian descent places the second instalment of his Homeland trilogy on a small, flood-prone island in the Wadden Sea. This melancholic, mood-driven film about exile and the scars it leaves behind features a charismatic performance by the legendary Hanna Schygulla.
Fiume o morte! Fiume o morte!
Igor Bezinović
Friday, 19. 09. 2025 / 18:00 / Main Hall
On 12 September 1919, a troop of some three hundred soldiers under the leadership of the flamboyant war-loving Italian poet Gabriele D’Annunzio swooped into the Northern-Adriatic port town of Fiume, now Rijeka, wanting to annex the city to Italy. Over the course of the next 16 months, during what is regarded as one of the most bizarre militant sieges of all time his official photography team captured over 10,000 images. A century later, Igor Bezinović orchestrates a direct-action history lesson focused on the siege and its modern-day implications.