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DocPoint 2016: Immigration and Ghosts of Finland’s War-torn Past Dominate This year’s Documentary Film Festival

Posted by Donna Roberts | January 25, 2016 6:10 pm | Films, Nation

The 15th annual DocPoint festival kicks off today, bringing to Helsinki some of the best-received documentary films of the last year.

DocPoint pulls a record crowd of about 30,000

Posted by Tony Öhberg | February 2, 2015 4:54 am | Films

DocPoint breaks the record amount of spectators in the history of the six-day-long documentary festival with almost 30,000 visitors in Helsinki.

Ne Me Quitte Pas suggests that without pain there is no pleasure

Posted by Editorial Team | January 30, 2015 4:32 pm | Films

In ‘Ne Me Quitte Pas’ (2013) we see this two-man support team rolling aimlessly through the days following Marcel’s breakup with his wife as the two of them attempt to answer the surreal question of “how it’s all going to end.”

We Were Rebels – a fusion of rugged political landscape and optimism

Posted by Editorial Team | January 30, 2015 2:18 pm | Films

We Were Rebels offers a cross-section of the rugged political landscape as well the eternal optimism of a population that knows nothing besides struggle and destruction.