12th DocPoint Festival is held again from 22nd to 27th of January in 2013!

The films at DocPoint Festival are in English or with English subtitles, if not mentioned otherwise. The exceptions can be found here.

The long term producer of YLE Dokumenttiprojekti, Iikka Vehkalahti, will be awarded with the DocPoint Apollo Award. The award is handed to a person who has contributed significantly to Finnish documentary film and earned credit on the field of documentary film.

Tikets to the DocPoint festival can be purchased easily from one location as the series tickets are up for sale. Series of five or eight tickets are available at the DocPoint Tickets Online.

This year's festival programme consists of documentary films dealing with the turning point of Europe and the topical issues in Arab countries. As usual, the programme includes also new interesting Finnish documentary films as well as international bestsellers. The 11th DocPoint is held between the 24th and the 29th of January in 2012 at the city centre movie theatres.

The 11th DocPoint – Helsinki Documentary Film Festival closed on Sunday with its films and events drawing 28 000 festival-goers, of which over 22 000 in the cinemas alone. The total of the screenings was 172 and films 134. DocPoint Tallinn, which was organized for the third time, attracted over 3 400 visitors.

What attracted the visitors of DocPoint Helsinki most this year were e.g. Finnish new documentary films, like Finnsurf by Aleksi Raij and Canned Dreams by Katja Gauriloff. Also the international bestsellers, like Werner Herzog’s Cave of Forgotten Dreams, Marshall Curry's if a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front and Vikram Gandhi’s Kumaré brought the audience to cinemas.

The 11th DocPoint is now over - we would like to thank all the visitors, guests and partners for the fantastic week! See you all again next January!

Before that you can check some festival atmosphere in DocPoint's photoblog and in Youtube.

On Friday in Dubrovnik, records are spinned by DJ Preal, who is also known from the Talent Finland final. He now brings his talented DJ:ing to the DocPoint Friday Club.

Get ready for hiphop, soul,electro and pop beats!

Fri 27.1. at 9 pm to 2 am, Dubrovnik. Address Eerikinkatu 11, Helsinki.

Free of charge (cloakroom fee 2,50 €)

Age limit 18.

Our cool Club Programme is found here.

Photo: Alisa Javits

DocPoint's silent film concert on Friday evening gathers together the world leading musicians. 

Rien que les heures silent film's original music was rearranged by film accompanist and pianist Maud Nelissen. She started her music career with chamber music, but in recent years, she's more and more devoted to composing (silent) film music.

Nelissen arrives to Helsinki with violist Lucio Degani and cellist Francesco Ferrarini - they both have passion for silent film music.

Rien que les heures concert on Friday 27.1. at 7.00 pm at Bio Rex.

DocPoint presents Oscar nominated Hell and Back Again today at Bio Rex.

War photographer Danfung Dennis traveled to Afganistan with the United States military troops and came back with sergeant Nathan Harris. Disabled Harris longs back to the killing fields: killing people is his calling.