Hiff2012
Helsinki International Film Festival 2012
This year also Otakut organizes a group buy for Helsinki International Film Festival tickets. We also offer our experienced suggestions (guesses) about what movies might be worth seeing. Please add your own suggestions to this wikipage.
Ticket sales start on 13.9. 10:00. Our agents will be queuing the tickets since early morning. Tickets are purchased using series tickets, which brings the price of a single ticket to 6.40€. Reservations via IRC to Riba @IRCNet? or via email to mailto:risto.jarvinen@aalto.fi. Non-refundable reservations will have to be made before 12.9. 24:00.
Note: most of the movies are in the original language (no dubs) and usually have English subtitles. Finnish movies usually have subtitles, with possible exception of finnish dubbed movies for children.
Movies
Anime/Animation
- A Letter to Momo, alien visitation to Japanese coast (Production I.G)
- King of Pigs, story of bullying in Korean school and society.
- From Up on Poppy Hill, for better world (Studio Ghibli, Miyazaki Goro)
- Alois Nebel, haunting from Czechoslovakian border.
Asia
- Flying Swords of Dragon Gate, latest wuxia movie, must see.
- Ace Attorney, based on the Phoenix Wright game series.
- Rent-a-cat, story of a lady who rents cats.
- Ai Weiwei - Never Sorry, Chinese artist/activist.
- Headshot, hired killer trying to find peace of mind.
- Killer, hired killer classic, directed by John Woo.
- Himizu, story of survival.
- I Wish, separation as seen by the children.
Others
- The Marshal of Finland, movie of the Finnish war hero, produced in Kenya.
- Grabbers, horror comedy of sea monsters attacking Ireland.
- Premium Rush, bicycle messenger action movie.
- Work Hard, Play Hard, documentary of modern working life.
- Love Rebels, the compulsory Bollywood movie.
- Savages, action satire of American drug laws.
- Hell, post-apocalyptic survival.
- Beasts of the Southern Wild, life on the swamps of southern USA.
- Holy Motors, french art movie, read description from HIFF page, can't figure this one out.
- Unit-7, police unit in anti-drug war.
- Killer Joe, assassination goes awry.
- Argo, funky rescue operation in Iran.
- Comic-Con episode IV: A Fans Hope, documentary of Comic-con.
- Future Shorts, short movies.
- Gimme the Loot, graffiti gang war.
- After Life: 4 stories of torture, Finnish documentary on immigrants who escaped torture.
- Noor, road movie about finding identity, from Pakistan.
- Whores' Glory, documentary of red-light districts in three countries
- Weird from Finland, Finnish short movies.
- She Male Snails, study in identity and gender.
- Cairo 678, sexual molestation of women in Egypt.
- War Witch, experiences of an African child-soldier.
- Sex and Relationships, short movies.
- Short Matters II, short movies.
- The Parade, troubles organizing Pride parades in Serbia.
- In Darkness, horrors of war in sewers of Poland.
- Girls Just Wanna Have..., short movies.