Helsinki International Film Festival

Reviews and interviews from the Helsinki International Film Festival (HIFF), also known as Rakkautta ja Anarkiaa - Love and Anarchy.

18 articles

Review

Coded Bias

★★★★ | Bigger brother

Joonatan Itkonen Sep 23, 2020

Festivals

Never Rarely Sometimes Always is full of heartbreaking truths

This is a film that is an exercise in great empathy. It deserves the widest audience precisely for how difficult the topic is and how frankly and eloquently Hittman presents a cry for basic human decency.

5.0 Joonatan Itkonen Sep 19, 2020

Review

Kelet

★★★★★ | Standing tall

Joonatan Itkonen Jun 1, 2020

Interviews

HIFF Interview: Gurinder Chadha

I spoke with Gurinder Chadha about Blinded by the Light and working with Bruce Springsteen.

Joonatan Itkonen Nov 9, 2019

Interviews

Victor Lindgren on immigration, friendship, and coming of age

I spoke with Victor Lindgren about his stunning coming-of-age story, The Unpromised Land.

Joonatan Itkonen Oct 16, 2019

Festivals

Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway is an underseen indie oddity

★★★★ | He's not the messiah

4.0 Joonatan Itkonen Sep 4, 2019