Gloria De Felice

It's almost that time of the year in Helsinki when the most passionate cinema enthusiasts eagerly await the . This 10-day event, from September 14th to 24th, will feature over 150 films and short films. However, the Helsinki International Film Festival isn't just about films; it also includes panel discussions, side events, and some afterparties. Interview with the artistic director Pekka Lanerva.

One of the top destinations for most tourists visiting Finland, Santa Claus Village near the city of Rovaniemi in the Finnish Lapland, is a famous stop for families, young people, and people of all ages to experience the magic of Christmas and meet Santa Claus himself during the winter. However, what happens during the summer in this location and the city of Rovaniemi? What are the main activities that visitors can enjoy? Is it still worth visiting the village?

In a remote village in Lapland, with around 8,000 inhabitants, the atmosphere undergoes a complete transformation during one week of the year. Two circus tents are installed, and a large number of movies from the past and present are screened in these tents and other venues of the town. This year the festival welcomed 35000 visitors with 64 sold out screenings.

Perheväkivalta rehottaa Suomessa. Mitä onnelliselta näyttäneen perheen ovien takana oikeasti tapahtui? Ohjaajat Ami Assulin, Gloria de Felice ja Thierry Francis Mbabane.

Game of Thrones on yhdysvaltalainen draamasarja, joka perustuu George R.R. Martinin kirjasarjaan Tulen ja jään laulu. Ensimmäinen tuotantokausi esitettiin keväällä 2011, ja sittemmin sarjasta tuli suosituin sarja televisiossa. Sarja on saanut useita palkintoja, muun muassa 47 Emmy-palkintoa...

Helsinki International Film Festival “Love&Anarchy” is the most popular cinema festival in Helsinki. It lasts around 10 days. It offers different movies from all around the world, giving the biggest focus on nowadays society through filming. Most of the movies have English subtitles. They also organize forum discussions and interview with the guests. The idea is also to gather Finnish and non-Finnish people based in Finland and to share some cinema culture from all around the world.

DocPoint 2019, The Documentary Film Festival in Helsinki started on Monday, January 28, and ended on February 3. The event began through an inauguration party in Bio Rex Cinema with the documentary Gods of Molenbeek by Reetta Huhtanen. The film talks about two young children’s lives in the Molenbeek area, a suburb of Brussels famous for being a nest of Islamic terrorism.

It was an early morning of November when we had a chance to visit the Helsinki based now popular museum Amos Rex in the hearth of the capital of Finland. We were tremendously intrigued to check it out.  Every day we could observe a long line of visitors facing the cold weather waiting with patience their time to buy their ticket. We were two of us, and, along with the visit to the museum, we had the opportunity to interview the Exhibition Assistant, Anastasia Isakova.

From the 20 to the 30th  of September I had the opportunity to visit The International Helsinki Film Festival “Love and Anarchy” (Rakkautta ja Anarkiaa). It´s always a remarkable experience since it gives me the prospect to evolve my cultural and cinematography perspective.  I discovered new films from all over the world and most available with English subtitles.

Meet Ashwin Rajan, speaker at The School of Startups The School of Startups is an event held at The Shortcut twice a year. It lasts three weeks, and each week focuses on three different tracks: Business, Design, and Tech. During the Design Track, I had the chance to participate and meet Ashwin Rajan, the founder of a behavioral think tank called Fabric. He conducted a workshop about Behavioural Design.

"The painter Ippolito Caffi, born in Belluno, Venetian by adoption, decided to capture some important events through the veduta technique, along an impeccable perfection of the use of perspective, a surreal portrayal of lights which give gives everyone the feeling to immerse in the past at the only encountering with his paintings. He has succeeded in eternalizing the magnificent moments that happened both in Italy and in some other cities such as Istanbul, Athens, Cairo. Sinebrychoffin Art Museum in Helsinki is hosting, until May 27, some of his works, from the collection of Fondazione Musei Civici di Venezia . Ca' Pesaro - Galleria Internazionale d'Arte Moderna "

We are living in a saturated society, covered by a crowd of news and data. We are living in the era of why, with a focus on appearance and the free knowledge. Nonetheless, we feel we are more ignorant than the day we were born because when we get too much, we are not able to be grateful anymore. We are from the capitalistic World, in 2018, we hope to be enlightened by easy-access to information.

In italiano a seguire. Рёбра Евы / Eve's Ribs organized a Feminist Festival in Saint Petersburg at the end of September 2017. “One woman out of three in the world is a victim of sexual and/or domestic violence. Last year, President Vladimir Putin approves legal changes that decriminalize some domestic violence. I think what Eve’s Ribs proposed was an excellent initiative that should be organized and spread globally. Through art, we can change the world, educate people, and inspire people around us to become stronger believers in justice. “ Рёбра Евы / Eve's Ribs ha organizzato lo scorso settembre un festival femminista a San Pietroburgo. “Nel mondo una donna su tre è vittima di violenza sessuale e/o domestiche. In Russia, nel 2017, il presidente Vladimir Putin ha cambiato la legge dove decriminalizza alcune violenze domestiche. Credo che quello che Eve´s Ribs ha proposto è stata un´ottima iniziativa che necessita di maggiore divulgazione. Attraverso l´arte possiamo cambiare il mondo, possiamo informare, possiamo rendere migliore chi ci sta intorno.”

Hang Massive (Danny Cudd and Markus Offbeat) performed at Gloria Kultturiareena (Gloria theatre) in Helsinki on October 24. The tickets nearly sold out. Along with the opening artists Govardo, their...

Cinemaissí, the Helsinki Latin American Film festival, is organized in the capital of Finland every autumn (19 October-22 October this year). I recently wrote an article related to the last...