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AUTUMN 1999

Director Jean Bitar, Bitar Films, TV2/Documentaries, 1999
This is a documentary film about the friday night café called Walkers which activities is to effect on the alienation of young people from the society and possibly prevent it.

16.9. INSHA ALLAH - GOD WILLING (55 min)

Directors Visa Koiso-Kanttila, Iiris Härmä, Millenium Film, TV2/Documentaries, 1999
Insha Allah describes what it is to live as a refugee in Finland at the turn of the millenium. The film follows the colourful life of two young Somalian families for almost a year. The documentary brings out the conflicts between the Somalis and and their neighbours and the Finnish authorities.

23.9. ESTELLE (53 min)

Director Untamo Eerola, TV2/Documentaries, 1999 A group of young people feeling solidarity for the third world decided to convert an old cargo ship into a sailing ship in order to promote "fair trade". Estelle is a film about persistence, inventiveness and belief in one's abilities and dreams.

30.9. ESTONIAN INDEPENDENCE REGAINED (52min)

Director Lisa Hovinheimo, TV2/Documentaries, 1999
During the historical days in August 1991 the Estonians used to chance that was offered to them by fate itself - and the Kremlin politics. Proclaiming the independence of the Estonian republic to be still in force since 1918, the Estonians gave rebirth to their country, inspite all risks, using only their brain as weapon.

7.10. SUCKERS(55 min)

Director John Webster, Epidem/TaiK/ETL, TV2/Documentaries, 1993
This documentry film is the story of three salesmen, who sell vacuum cleaners door-to-door in urban and rural Finland. It is a film about ambition - about winners and losers. It's about selling, and about the price of success in the small world of vacuum cleaners.

14.10. LAST VISIT (52 min)

Director : Aleksandr Gutman, Atelje-Film-Aleksandr, Russia, 1998 A Dramatic story of a Russian young man who shot his senior officer who had sexually abused him. He was sentenced for life, and sent to hight-security prison without any possibilities of having visitors. After six years his mother gets a permission to visit him for first and last time.

21.10. SEMJONOV'S PERISCOPE (62 min)

Director Gideon Gitai, Gig Films, TV2/Documentaries, 1999

28.10. LES ENFANTS DU BORINAGE - LETTRE A HENRI STORCK (54 min)

Director Patric Jean, RTBF, Belgia, 1999

4.11. THE POOR, HUMBLE AND SHAMELESS (55 min)

Director Noora Männistö, Musafilmi, 1999

18.11. TRICKSTER (50 min)

Director: Heikki Veijola, Elokuvaosuuskunta Siperia and TV2/ Documentaries
Portrait of Jarmo Luttinen, a magician, a father and an alcoholic

25.11. KIVISEN TIEN KIRJOITUKSIA(50 min)

Director Jaana Puhakka, Ombre Films ja TV2/Documentaries, 1999

2.12. THE LAST CIGARETTE (52 min)

Directort Kevin Rafferty ja Frank Keraudren, Drifting Smoke Productions, USA, 1999
The Last Cigarrette is to smoking what Rafferty's The Atomic Café was to nuclear warfare: an entertaining and irreverent exploration of a deadly subject. It made entire from achival footage.

9.12. THE UNSEEN (53 min)

Director Miroslav Janek, Czech TV, 1996
This documentary film on blind children is a sensitive challenge to our common values of life, and enables us to glance at the secluded world of the blind.

16.12. DON'T TELL DADDY

Director John Webster, Epidem, TV2/Documentaries
Don't Tell Daddy is a documentary film about the trade in girls between Finland and the former Soviet states. The film follows one girl's story from her recruitment in Estonia, showing the ways in which she is deceived into going to Finland to work as a stripper, to the point where she realizes her entrapment is complete.

23.12. BLISS (55min)

Director and producer Vitali Manski, Russia, 1995
The Churilov sisters, together with the other 15 people in their community, live in isolation forgotten by the rest of Russia in their remote hilltop village. The village is so small and remote that, in the war, the Germans walked past it and after the war the communist state forgot to build them road.

30.12. ALIENS - STOWAWAYS OF THE DEEP (52 min)

Director Ismo Tuormaa, Tekstivirta and TV2/Documentaries, 1999
Documentary about one of the most important environmental problems in the world. It is the transfer of alien water organisms from one continent to another in ships' ballast water or attached to the hull of ships.