{"id":773,"date":"2020-08-11T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-08-11T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/espoocine.fi\/2020\/08\/the-berlinale-awarded-undine-to-open-espoo-cine-international-film-festival\/"},"modified":"2020-08-11T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T00:00:00","slug":"the-berlinale-awarded-undine-to-open-espoo-cine-international-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/espoocine.fi\/en\/2020\/08\/the-berlinale-awarded-undine-to-open-espoo-cine-international-film-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"The Berlinale awarded Undine to open Espoo Cin\u00e9 international film festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<p><strong>One of the most critically acclaimed European directors working today, the German director Christian Petzold\u2019s latest title Undine launches off Espoo Cin\u00e9 on the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> September. The highly anticipated new documentary Aalto from award winning Virpi Suutari will be screened as the Finnish Gala Premiere. Ville Jankeri\u2019s Mets\u00e4j\u00e4tti is placed as the Gala Premiere on Friday and the Italian maestro Marco Bellocchio\u2019s The Traitor closes the film festival on Sunday the 6th September.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>German auteur <strong>Christian Petzold<\/strong> (<em>Barbara<\/em>, Espoo Cin\u00e9 2012; <em>Transit<\/em>, Espoo Cin\u00e9 2019) brings his latest film <em>Undine <\/em>to Espoo. Love is forever in this romantic fairytale following the old water nymph myth in modern-day Berlin. The astonishing <strong>Paula Beer<\/strong> was awarded the best female actor in this year\u2019s Berlinale. Her love interest is played by \u201dthe German Joaquin Phoenix\u201d <strong>Franz Rogowski <\/strong>(<em>Transit<\/em> 2019).<br \/><strong>Opening film in Kino Tapiola, Finnkino Sello and Finnkino Omena on Wed 2.9. at 19. <\/strong><strong>Undine in Finnish film theatres from October the 9th.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Virpi Suutari<\/strong>\u2019s new documentary <em>Aalto<\/em> will be screened as the Finnish Gala Premiere of Espoo Cin\u00e9. <em>Aalto<\/em> is a love story of the masters of modern architecture, Alvar and Aino Aalto and their work all around the world.<br \/><strong>Finnish Film Gala in Kino Tapiola in Thursday September the 9th at 19. Aalto premieres on Sep 4th. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Friday\u2019s Gala Premiere introduces the new drama by director <strong>Ville Jankeri<\/strong>. <em>Forest Giant<\/em> is based on the bestselling novel of <strong>Miika Nousiainen<\/strong> and is starred by <strong>Jussi Vatanen<\/strong>, <strong>Hannes Suominen<\/strong> and <strong>Sara Souli\u00e9.<br \/><\/strong><strong>Gala Premiere in Kino Tapiola on Friday September the 4th at 19. Forest Giant premieres on Sep 11th.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Maestro of Italian cinema, <strong>Marco Bellocchio\u2019s<\/strong>, praised and award-winning new thriller <em>The Traitor<\/em> ends the festival on a high note. Based on a true story the Cannes premiered film tells the intriguing story of the first mafia man to break the unbreakable <em>omert\u00e0<\/em>, the law of silence.<br \/><strong>Closing Film in Kino Tapiola on Sunday, September the 6th at 20.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The Whistlers<\/em> by <strong>Corneliu Porumboiun<\/strong> is a highly enjoyable neo thriller about a corrupt policeman, group of crooks, a femme fatale and a Canarian whistle language. <em>The Whistlers<\/em> will be coming to Finnish film theatres later this year.<\/p>\n<p>Fans of French film are spoiled with some special treats! <strong>Claude Lelouch <\/strong>double-bill brings his classic <em>A Man and a Woman<\/em> (1966) and its stars <strong>Anouk Aim\u00e9e<\/strong> and <strong>Jean-Louis Trintignant <\/strong>back together on his new, dream-like love story <em>The Best Years of a Life <\/em>(2019). Another French master is <strong>Philippe Garrel<\/strong>, whose black and white drama <em>The Salt of Tears<\/em> tells a breathtaking story of a very complicated love.<\/p>\n<p>Two-time winners of the Cannes Film Festival Palm d\u2019Or, <strong>Jean-Pierre<\/strong> and <strong>Luc Dardenne\u2019s <\/strong>latest film <em>Young Ahmed<\/em> is a skillfully told drama of a 13-year-old Ahmed battling between modern life and religion. Hungary\u2019s Oscar nomination for the best international film, <em>Those Who Remained<\/em>, is a lyrical story of love\u2019s healing power in the midst of conflict, loss and trauma. <strong>Jan Komasa\u2019s<\/strong><em>Corpus Christi<\/em> about the twenty-something criminal who ends up passing as the priest of a small village was Poland\u2019s Oscar nominee. <em>Andrey Tarkovsky. A Cinema Prayer<\/em> is a rare look on the cinema poet <strong>Andrei Tarkovski\u2019s <\/strong>life and films. His son <strong>Andrei A. Tarkovski<\/strong> has gathered the film of rare archive materials.<\/p>\n<p>A very special year has both challenged and liberated the festival organizators this year. As the seats get fewer due to safety regulations, Espoo Cin\u00e9 will be spreading to Helsinki. For the first time the 31-year-old festival arranges screenings through a night with a promise to take the viewers on a roller coaster of emotions: laughter, excitement \u2013 and a gentle wake-up call.<br \/><strong>Night screenings in Kino Tapiola from Sat September 5<sup>th<\/sup> at 22 to Sun 6<sup>th<\/sup> at 7.30.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The festival for kids and youth, Junior Cin\u00e9, launches off with a German feel-good film <em>Rocca muuttaa maailman.<\/em> The film, following right in the steps of Peppi Pitk\u00e4tossu, is an eventful and riveting story about friendship, helping out \u2013 and squirrels! \u201dIt is great to have this film full of positive energy to open up the festival, right now when we most need it\u201d, Junior Cin\u00e9 producer <strong>Maria Lehtonen<\/strong> rejoices.<br \/><strong>Junior Cin\u00e9 from Wednesday 2nd to Friday 4th September<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ticket sales starts on Wednesday 12th August at 17.00 in Kino Tapiola and online at www.espoocine.fi.<\/p>\n<p>Espoo Cin\u00e9 will be held in September 2020 as a one-time only occasion, and it returns next year in its regular place in the beginning of May. The festival venues are Kino Tapiola, Finnkino Sello and Finnkino Omena from Wednesday 2<sup>nd<\/sup> to Sunday 6<sup>th<\/sup>September. Screenings are seen also at Cinema Orion and Kino Regina in Helsinki over the festival weekend from 4<sup>th<\/sup> to 6<sup>th<\/sup> September.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the most critically acclaimed European directors working today, the German director Christian Petzold\u2019s latest title Undine launches off Espoo Cin\u00e9 on the 2nd September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Berlinale awarded Undine to open Espoo Cin\u00e9 international film festival - Espoo Cin\u00e9<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/espoocine.fi\/en\/2020\/08\/the-berlinale-awarded-undine-to-open-espoo-cine-international-film-festival\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Berlinale awarded Undine to open Espoo Cin\u00e9 international film festival - 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