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MAIN SERIES
AUTUMN 1998 September October November December
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2.9.
KISANGANI DIARY (50 min)
Controversial documentary about the African madness, death and suffering. The film does not give any explanations to this insanity. It evokes feelings of Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness". In fact, is was shot in same locations. 9.9. THE BANISHED (52 min) A documentary about the neighbourhood youngsters' struggle for survival. 16.9. LAST VISIT (52 min) 23.9. ESTONIA - DELUSIVE SAFETY (72min) The passanger ship Estonia sank in 1994. How do the survivors face life and death, modern world and its values. This new version of "Estonia" has an episode. 30.9.THE HUNT (90 min) The Hunt is the first feature length documentary to explore from the inside the increasingly secretive, complex and fascinating world of English foxhunting set against the background of public outcry for the banning of this sport. 14.10. HOME PAGE (90 min) Home Page is, at once, a wryly entertaining journey, and insider's look at the World Wide Web at a turbulent transitional moment, and a fascinating and disquieting portrait of an Internet youth culture that hungers for connections and community, and is increasingly turning to computers to find it. 21.10. A POLICE HUNT FOR A MURDERER A unique documentary film about how the police caught the man who murdered two policemen in the streets of Helsinki in October 1997. 28.10. PROJECT X: CASTRATING OF RAPISTS (50 min) What to do with violent sex offenders? Texans propose that they be surgically castrated, Californians have opted for "chemical castration". The castration of rapists is an age-old solution. While castration may satisty society's demands for retribution, does it stop men hurting their victims? A documentary of Lestadian movement, the biggest sect in the Nordic countries. A depiction of how religion governs the life of the Kangas family of ten children. 11.11. CHILDREN OF FATE (85 min) Children of Fate is the story of a slum in Palermo and a heroic struggle of one mother, Angela, to keep her family going under severe social conditions. That was filmed in 1961. Thirty years later Robert Young returned to Sicily, tracing what had happened to Angela and her family over the 30 years. 18.11. WHO WAS FELIX KERSTEN...? (50 min) Dr. Felix Kersten, the Scandinavian Oscar Schindler, or not? A mysterious individual who as SS leader Heinrich Himmler's personal masseur, influenced Hitler's second in command to free hundreds of thousands of concentration camps prisoners in Germany during WWII, and possibly stop the deportation of the Dutch population to Poland. 25.11. GAIA'S CHILDREN (50 min) How can it be that ancient Greek sculptures with missing body parts are admired as symbols of beauty when people with similar disabilities are often treated as outcasts? Using humour and personal stories devoid of sentimentality, Bente Milton lets individuals who are trapped inside a disabled body step forward and tell us about their dreams and feelings. The death of a Finnish peacekeeper. 9.12.THE MALTESE DOUBLE CROSS (92 min) For years, the official line has been that two Libyans masterminded the bombing of Pan AM Flight 103, killing everyone on board. This documentary - denounced in Britain - claims they are innocent and that the jumbo was brought down a drug run, sanctioned by US intelligence, went wrong. 16.12. PAWN STORIES (50 min) Documentary about lack of money and easy way to get temporary relief. The customers of Helsinki pawn shop tell their stories. It is a simple testimony of how much 200 FIM can be! 23.12. KIVEEN KIRJOITETTU (60 min) 30.12. LITTLE DIETER NEEDS TO FLY (72 min) As young kid the German Dieter Dengler dreamed of becoming an American test pilot. During his first mission in Vietnam in 1966 he was shot and captured by the Vietcong. Werner Herzog tells Dengler's story in four episodes, and he does not take the distinction between fact and fiction too serious.
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