Helsinki International Film Festival
FFL's Festival Validation
FFL feels responsible for only allowing legitimate and relevant festivals to accept submissions through our platform. Thus we verify the festival's legitimacy and relevance before pushing the call for submissions live. Some festivals are not being allowed to accept submissions at all. For festivals allowed to accept submissions FFL separates among:
VALIDATED FESTIVALS
These festivals fully comply with FFL's festival validation policy. There is no doubt that they are established and/or legitimate events.
NOT VALIDATED FESTIVALS
These festivals don't fully comply with FFL's festival validation policy but appear to be legitimate events. We will leave you to decide whether you should submit to this event or not. We also welcome any feedback about these events. You can report your experience at verification@filmfestivallife.com
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Love & Anarchy
30th edition
Sep 14 - Sep 24, 2021
Estimated
Helsinki, Finland
Open Call Open to Public Competitive Market Special Fees
Festival type Real Venue Festival
Types of films Animation, Documentary, Narrative fiction
Film length Full length, Short
Mission / description
Founded in 1988, the Helsinki International Film Festival – Love & Anarchy has been held annually ever since.
The aim of Finland’s biggest film festival is to promote the artist…ry of filmmaking alongside inventive, controversial and visually stunning new films. The festival also seeks to screen films that would otherwise not be seen in Finnish theatres.
The festival programme consists of new films from well-known filmmakers and fresh talents alike.
The festival programme consists of new films from well-known filmmakers and fresh talents alike. In its first few years the programme was heavily focused on Japanese and Hong Kong films. Since then, the programme has evolved; Asian films still play a part but films from all other continents feature too. The ideological godfathers of the festival aren’t too tough to pick out –Wong Kar-wai, Spike Lee, Peter Greenaway, Gaspar Noé, John Woo, David Cronenberg, Takeshi Kitano, Todd Solondz, Takashi Miike and Hayao Miyazaki are all names that pop up in the festival programme year and decade after another.
During its 28-year lifespan, the Helsinki International Film Festival has expanded from two theatres to 14 screens and established itself as an 11-day homage to cinema. In 1988 the festival screened 26 films. Nowadays the programme consists of around 180 feature films and 160 short films. The screenings take place in the downtown cinemas and traditional film sanctuaries of Helsinki. Last year’s festival that unspooled in September had over 60 000 visitors. full text
Festival website hiff.fi/en/
FFL feels responsible for only allowing legitimate and relevant festivals to accept submissions through our platform. Thus we verify the festival's legitimacy and relevance before pushing the call for submissions live. Some festivals are not being allowed to accept submissions at all. For festivals allowed to accept submissions FFL separates among:
VALIDATED FESTIVALS
These festivals fully comply with FFL's festival validation policy. There is no doubt that they are established and/or legitimate events.
NOT VALIDATED FESTIVALS
These festivals don't fully comply with FFL's festival validation policy but appear to be legitimate events. We will leave you to decide whether you should submit to this event or not. We also welcome any feedback about these events. You can report your experience at verification@filmfestivallife.com
Click to reed more about FFl's validation policy.
Love & Anarchy
30th edition
Sep 14 - Sep 24, 2021
Estimated
Helsinki, Finland
Festival type Real Venue Festival
Types of films Animation, Documentary, Narrative fiction
Film length Full length, Short
Mission / description
Founded in 1988, the Helsinki International Film Festival – Love & Anarchy has been held annually ever since.
The aim of Finland’s biggest film festival is to promote the artist…ry of filmmaking alongside inventive, controversial and visually stunning new films. The festival also seeks to screen films that would otherwise not be seen in Finnish theatres.
The festival programme consists of new films from well-known filmmakers and fresh talents alike.
The festival programme consists of new films from well-known filmmakers and fresh talents alike. In its first few years the programme was heavily focused on Japanese and Hong Kong films. Since then, the programme has evolved; Asian films still play a part but films from all other continents feature too. The ideological godfathers of the festival aren’t too tough to pick out –Wong Kar-wai, Spike Lee, Peter Greenaway, Gaspar Noé, John Woo, David Cronenberg, Takeshi Kitano, Todd Solondz, Takashi Miike and Hayao Miyazaki are all names that pop up in the festival programme year and decade after another.
During its 28-year lifespan, the Helsinki International Film Festival has expanded from two theatres to 14 screens and established itself as an 11-day homage to cinema. In 1988 the festival screened 26 films. Nowadays the programme consists of around 180 feature films and 160 short films. The screenings take place in the downtown cinemas and traditional film sanctuaries of Helsinki. Last year’s festival that unspooled in September had over 60 000 visitors. full text
Festival website hiff.fi/en/