Side events
Sat 21st Jan
DOCPOINT KICK START
5.30 pm, Maxim
Get into the festival mood! DocPoint Kick Start will present Tatiana Huezo Sanchez's award-winning film The Tiniest Place.
Tue 24th Jan
A WALL IS A SCREEN
4.30 pm, meeting point at Senaatintori, statue of Aleksanteri II
At the opening day of the DocPoint Festival, the Helsinki city centre will be taken over by A Wall is a Screen – a film screening in which short films are reflected on the walls of the public buildings and interesting interiors.
The walking tour stops at the buildings and other interesting sites to see films in the middle of the pulsing city. You can take part in the whole performance, or just stop to see one or two films.
Remember to wrap up warm!
Before the happening, you are welcomed to have a cup of hot chocolate at the Studio of World Design Capital Helsinki 2012. Hot chocolate is served from 3.30 pm to 4.30 pm in address Aleksanterinkatu 16-18.
Find out more information about the German organization behind A Wall Is a Screen in Facebook.
Check out also our DocPoint presents: A Wall Is a Screen Facebook event.
Free entrance
SIRKKA-LIISA KONTTINEN EXHIBITION @ LATERNA MAGICA: CAPTURED IN AMBER
Finnish born Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen is a founder member of Amber Film & Photography Collective, which has been documenting working class and marginalised communities in the North East of England since the late 1960s. Alongside Amberˈs production of feature and documentary films, from1979 the group has also been running the Side Photographic Gallery dedicated to social documentary, on the Quayside of Newcastle Upon Tyne.
The photographs in this exhibition are a selection from Sirkkaˈs four photographic projects that led to the films that are being screened at this yearˈs DocPoint film festival in Helsinki: Byker, The Writing In The Sand, Letters To Katja and Today Iˈm With You.
Recently inscribed in the UNESCO UK Memory of the World Register, the narrative of Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen's photography and Amber's films were recognised as being of 'outstanding national value and importance to the United Kingdom'.
From 24th to 29th Jan, Ateneum Hall, Kaivokatu 2
A retrospective photo exhibition of the work of an Israeli photographer Rudi Weissenstein (1910-1992) at the lobby of Ateneum Hall during the DocPoint Film Festival from 24th till 29th January.
The exhibition consists of photographs by Rudi Weissenstein, the founder of the world-renowned Zalmania - Photo House in Tel Aviv. The Zalmania is one of Israel's most valuable and monumental private archives of historical photographs.
The exhibition can be visited during the DocPoint Film Festival at the times of the screenings shown at Ateneum Hall. The entrance is free for the visitors of DocPoint.
Read more:
Life in Stills –photo exhibit
Life in Stills at the DocPoint Film Festival
The Zalmania Photo House
Wed 25th Jan
A FILM DOCTOR’S RECEPTION AT THE CULTURE TRAM
The entrance to the Culture Tram is free of charge. Only in Finnish.
THE BABYBIO: GRANDMA, A THOUSAND TIMES
Wed 25th Jan at 1 pm, at Kinopalatsi 1
The first DocPoint Babybio screening of all times presents Mahmoud Kaabour’s touching film-portrait of the quick-witted Beiruti grandmother with a great sense of humour, whose everyday life is filled with longin.
For the young viewers there is e.g. a babycare table and a microwawe in the theatre hall.
Tickets: 7 euros
Fri 27th Jan
SILENT FILM CONCERT: Rien que les heures
At the last Friday of January the Bio Rex movie theatre will be filled with the hustle and bustle of a metropolis. The famous silent film concert performs the groundwork of all city symphonies - the masterpiece of thepoetic French documentary filmmaking, Only The Hours (Rien que les heures, 1926). The film by Alberto Cavalcanti moves through Paris from dusk till
dawn and its original modernist music has been re-arranged by Maud Nelissen from Holland. Nelissen arrives at the festival to perform the music with the violinist Lucio Degani and the cellist Francesco Ferrarini from Italy.
Tickets: Regular price 17 €. Students, pensioners and conscripts 14 €. (The discount is personal and entitled upon a presentation of a valid student, pension or conscript card in the screening theatre.)
Sat 28th Jan
DOCPOINT & DOC LOUNGE CLUB
The Club DocLounge & DocPoint on Saturday 28th of January is a combination of film and music. The doors open at 7 pm and the film Carte Blanche (91 min) by Heidi Specogna is screened at 7.30 pm. After the film there is an open discussion about the rules and consequences of war and the possibility of interational rights. Also present i. a. the journalist/non-fiction writer Rauli Virtanen.
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