September 28, 2009
Etnia Film Festival 2009 will be held on the 8th to the 11th of October in
the heart of Turku. The festival theatre is situated at Humalistonkatu 7,
and is an old theatre called ML Media Liv Ab.
The festival presents documentaries and feature films, which deal with the
past and the present of Latin America, but especially with how the
indigenous people of the continents cope in the modernised world. A special
insider’s view will be presented through a representative of Promedios
(Mexico). Several documentaries will be screened that deal with different
issues of Central America.
Young film makers from Sweden are presenting a film, that deals with
businesses between a Swedish and a Chilean company. The background story is
that in the 80’s the laws in Sweden became more strict, and the Swedish
company got an opportunity to take loads of waste to Chile to be processed
and dumped into the secure soil. The result can be seen in Toxic Playground
by William Johansson and Lars Edman.
Most of the films are subtitled in English, but some are subtitled in
Finnish or unsubtitled.
Click here for more information
October 4, 2008
Etnia Film Festival opens on Thursday the 9th of October with a Sri Lankan film Forsaken Land won in Cannes in 2005. Festival ends with Vietnamese film Buffalo Boy, which won FIPRESCI award in 2004 when previewed for Academy Awards for best foreign language film. The more detailed programme and timetable can be found here: programme. Festival has also very profilic guests. Iranian director Bahman Ghobadi, a merited Kurd arrives to Turku and presents two of his films, Turtles Can Fly and Half Moon. Other guests are documentarists: Australian Lara Damiani, French Richard Martin Jordan, Polish Andrzej Dybczak and Russian Olga Kornienko.
June 16, 2008
Etnia Association will hold it’s seventh film festival in October. This year’s theme will be Asia and it’s indigenous cultures and modern day life. Most of the screened material will be documentaries, but we are seeking possible additions from the new Asian cinema. By far the confirmed films include Bahman Ghobadi’s Turtles Can Fly.
October 11, 2006
Website is now available in English. However pages are built in a hurry and there might be broken, non-functional links and some errors. If you notice any please send us email and tell us what is missing or which links are not working.
