Midnight Sun Film Festival
The Midnight Sun Film Festival is a five-day annual film festival held in Sodankylä, Finland. The festival is usually held in the second week of June, but this year it will be held from June 14 to 18. One of the festival's distinguishing features is that films are shown nonstop around the clock while the sun shines.
The Midnight Sun Film Festival is not a competitive event. The program consists primarily of films directed by the main guests, as well as 20–30 modern films from around the world, contemporary Finnish films, and cinema classics, some of which are typically presented as "master classes" by various film theory experts. Typically, the festival introduces four to five young directors who are also festival guests. Attendance has ranged between 15,000 and 25,000 in recent years.
The first international directors to attend the festival were Samuel Fuller, Jonathan Demme, Bertrand Tavernier, and Jean-Pierre Gorin in 1986. Later, it hosted some of cinema's biggest names, including Jim Jarmusch, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Roger Corman, Terry Gilliam, Francis Ford Coppola, Abbas Kiarostami, and Milo Forman.
Takes place: the second week of June
