Sodankylä Forever

Sodankylä Forever (2010)

Masters of Cinema Under the Midnight Sun

The Midnight Sun Film Festival is held every June in the Finnish village of Sodankylä beyond the arctic circle — where the sun never sets. Founded by Aki and Mika Kaurismäki along with Anssi Mänttäri and Peter von Bagh in 1985, the festival has played host to an international who’s who of directors and each day begins with a two-hour discussion. To mark the festival’s silver anniversary, festival director Peter von Bagh edited together highlights from these dialogues to create an epic four-part choral history of cinema drawn from the anecdotes, insights, and wisdom of his all-star cast: Coppola, Fuller, Forman, Chabrol, Corman, Demy, Kieslowski, Kiarostami, Varda, Oliveira, Erice, Rouch, Gilliam, Jancso — and 64 more. Ranging across innumerable topics (war, censorship, movie stars, formative influences, America, neorealism) these voices, many now passed away, engage in a personal dialogue across the years that’s by turns charming, profound, hilarious and moving.

  • Release Date: 2010-08-05
  • Runtime: 4h 33min
  • Director: Peter von Bagh

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Cast

  • Peter von Bagh

    Self

  • Robert Parrish

    Self

  • Roy Ward Baker

    Self

  • Víctor Erice

    Self

  • Francis Ford Coppola

    Self

  • Samuel Fuller

    Self

  • Sergio Sollima

    Self

  • Miloš Forman

    Self

  • John Boorman

    Self

  • Roger Corman

    Self

  • Jean Rouch

    Self

  • Manoel de Oliveira

    Self

  • Claude Chabrol

    Self

  • Jacques Demy

    Self

  • Krzysztof Kieślowski

    Self

  • Abbas Kiarostami

    Self

  • Terry Gilliam

    Self

  • Miklós Jancsó

    Self

  • Jean-Pierre Léaud

    Self

  • João Bénard da Costa

    Self

  • G. Carbera Infante

    Self

  • José Luis Guarner

    Self

  • Jonathan Rosenbaum

    Self

  • Jean Douchet

    Self

  • Raymond Durgnat

    Self

  • Pertti Lumirae

    Self

  • Satu Laaksonen

    Self

  • Jonathan Demme

    Self

  • Paolo Taviani

    Self

  • Agnieszka Holland

    Self

  • Andrei German

    Self

  • André de Toth

    Self

  • Krzysztof Zanussi

    Self

  • Monte Hellman

    Self

  • Dušan Makavejev

    Self

  • Gian Vittorio Baldi

    Self

  • Carroll Ballard

    Self

  • Jim Jarmusch

    Self

  • Andrey Smirnov

    Self

  • Denys Arcand

    Self

  • Vincent Sherman

    Self

  • Luc Dardenne

    Self

  • Jean-Pierre Dardenne

    Self

  • Vittorio De Seta

    Self

  • Francesco Rosi

    Self

  • Bob Rafelson

    Self

  • Dino Risi

    Self

  • Chantal Akerman

    Self

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