documentary

Battle for the City at the DocPoint festival Jan. 28th

The film tells the story of two Turkus, the one from the past and the modern one. What was Turku like before the old city was torn down and modernisation completely changed the cityscape? How are today’s young people attempting to take control over city property by occupying buildings?

Battle for the City is at the same time a film that awakens the sentimental spirit of the old Turku, a historical documentary about the phenomenon aptly named the ‘Turku disease’ (referring to the desire to tear down the old and replace it with the modern), and a topical social/political standpoint.

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Short Films on Multilingualism

Documentaries and panel discussions of multilingualism

Early summer, a group of young European filmmakers will tour the Turku archipelago, mapping multilingualism in Finland. During an intensive two-week period of working together, the group will create six short documentary films that will have their immediate premieres.
The group of international cinema professionals was selected through an extensive short film competition. The competition was organised by Nisi Masa, a Paris-based European network of young cinema associations which includes over 20 European cinema associations.

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Polyglot video contest winners announced

Yesterday our special jury met to take on the challenge of selecting all 18 winners of the Polyglot Video Contest.

The deliberations resulted in an equal number of selections from the documentary and fiction categories, and winners aged between 19 and 32 from 12 different countries. Here is the full list - congratulations to the young talents who are invited to participate in the Cine-Boat workshop.

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Winners by jury decision

Do you speak video? Visit www.polyglot-turku.eu to discover the entries! NISI MASA received 87 valid submissions from 28 different European countries: Video Portraits (documentary) on My multilingualism and Video Poems (fiction) on The language I dream in. Due technical problems the online voting was cancelled and Polyglot jury will select all 18 winners.

Confirmed for the jury are

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