The Voice Of Finland

Little Red Riding Hood and the wolf chasing each other. A tale with sad ending.

An old Director tries to rearm his vocational choir to continue singing Argentine popular music, in a context where the academies promote the Europeanization of music. Meanwhile,he is looking for a disciple to whom to leave his legacy.

A group of first-degree visually impaired (fully blind) people spontaneously formed the "Mind Music Club", preparing to hold the band's first offline ticket concert. The society gives them too much prejudice, and they don't even have the right to go to the playground to relax and play···. They want to let more people hear the voice of their hearts through singing.

The documentary Voices from the Greek Underground is part history, part poetry, part painting and part cinema. Α cinematic pastiche made of testaments on the Greek underground scene of the 60s and 70s, the psychedelic influence in the visual arts and the avant-garde fusion of beat and surrealism in poetry. It is a film about a group of Greek artists and publishers that remained sometimes unseen and sometimes underground, and their personal statement in their effort to change the world with the power of art.

Bakhmut, Donetsk region, 2022. A story about an attempt to restore intimacy at a distance of the war, told via the voice messages of a foreign correspondent in a front-line city.

Running through Bartók’s disenchanted tale, whose haunting music was initially condemned as unplayable, and the expression of despair in Poulenc’s monologue, the director Krzysztof Warlikowski perceives a shared dramatic thread, a shared feminine consciousness and a shared sense of imprisonment and suffocation: for the woman who penetrates the confines of Bluebeard’s castle and Elle, the woman who clings to a telephone conversation with a man as the only thing worth living for, are condemned to share the same fate. And this man she speaks to, does he really exist? Unless the director has interpreted Cocteau’s words to the letter and the telephone has become a “terrifying weapon that leaves no trace, makes no noise”…

Legendary film director Werner Herzog brings together five shepherds and singers from the island of Sardinia in a Paris studio with a Senegalese singer and a Dutch cellist to create the music for one of his films.

Karjalaine iäni explores the realities of being a young Karelian person in Finland today. The Karelians are a cultural and, in some cases, linguistic minority traditionally residing in eastern Finland and western Russia. Karelians and speakers of the Karelian language have lived in Finland for as long as Finns, but their culture and language have received no legal recognition. Both the culture and language are endangered, and the Karelian community, including young people, are continuously working to revitalize the Karelian language and raise awareness of the Karelian culture. Made in collaboration with Karjalazet Nuoret Suomes – Karjalaiset Nuoret Šuomešša ry as a part of Karjalan kielen elvytysprojekti 2022 (University of Eastern Finland).

Before the apocalypse, a prophet declaims an ode to the new generations.

"Voices of AlUla" is a film about sound in the desert of Al-Ula, through intimate stories, tales of the road, the features of nature, and the vastness of the desert. Directed by Mitoshka Alkova.

Ferne Stimmen : distant voices. That of Hannah Arendt, a poem of whose, written in honour of Walter Benjamin in 1942, is read in voice-over as we see images of walls and deserted streets in an abandoned village: Oradour-sur-Glane. That of Ulrike Meinhof, speaking of women’s position with regards to political commitment, or the survival of fascism in post-war Germany, as we see a woman in a cell akin to that of the political activist. Two german women, both of whom fought against nazism and its aftermath; two evocations of state violence and the struggles it engenders; two decentred frames that cover each other in turn, contaminate and pollinate one another in a palimpsest of eras of resistance.

An aging jazzman must journey through his past and make peace with his personal demons, lest they steal from him the magic of making music. A touching tale of the struggle familiar to any artist, told through a bravura blend of animation styles.

Marcos had moved to the other side of the world and created a new life for himself, until a phone call came to spiral his new normal upside down, bringing echoes from the past to make him question who he truly is.

Fragments of all three short stories retrospectively pass before our eyes. The most difficult thing is not to lose the person who came into your life. Everything can be returned, except the people we lost. Preserving a person is the greatest of arts.

Frustrated journalist Paulo is ensnared by neighbor Marina, waitress and actress. She once seduced him in the elevator, and since then, she never let him go, even though she also never let go of her marriage. Trapped in work, creative block, and Marina's grip, Paulo chooses to cut ties. Drunk, he records a love-hate farewell on a cassette for her. Film depicts his escape attempt and internal battle, shared through recording for the absent Marina.

In 2013, My Voice, My Life followed classes of students from three high schools for underprivileged kids and one school for the visually impaired as they embarked on a voyage of self-discovery through taking part in a musical production. Six years later, what kinds of lives are they leading now? My Voice, My Life Revisited goes in search of four of those students: Ah Bok, Coby, Sio Fan and Tsz Nok, charting their transformation and how they have grown over these past few years, as well as the challenges they are facing today.

Story concerns teen amateurs trying to make their musical marks, set in Mutsu, Aomori, Japan.

This experimental film examines the physical and emotional effect of violence as it is seen through the eyes of women around the world, ranging from a Irish mother explaining the use of "knee-capping" by the IRA to an Arabic woman describing how war and terrorism has impacted her country. Each woman who narrates uses her own native tongue, with nine languages represented on the soundtrack. While the film does not feature an original score, the Master Drummers of Burundi appear in one sequence. Wild Blue, Notes for Several Voices was screened as part of the Un Certain Regard program at the 2000 Cannes Film Festival.