Finland’s DocPoint is organizing as a nationwide online festival for their 2022 edition, 31 January to 6 February 2022. Its opening event will be held in Kansalaistori Square in Helsinki city centre on 29 January and includes the screening of Susanna Helke’s latest film Ruthless Times – Songs of Care.
DocPoint’s further propgramme consists of 63 films in total, 52 of which are features. The National Programme includes thirteen long-waited documentary premieres. The International Programme includes films like Ascension, Faya Dayi, President, and Writing With Fire, which are all shortlisted for #Academy Award# for Best Documentary.
See below for the full National and International competitions. DocPoint will also feature a retrospective of academic #Pirjo Honkasalo#, which includes four masterful documentary films. Ticket sales have begun, which can be found via the DocPoint website.
NATIONAL COMPETITION
- Fragments of Humanity
- Golden Land
- Hockey Dreams
- It’s Raining Women
- Power of the People
- Ruthless Times – Songs of Care
- Shepherds of the Earth
- Sorrow Tamers
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
- All About My Sisters
- Les Enfants Terribles
- Faya Dayi
- Life of Ivanna
- The Mushroom Speaks
- A Night of Knowing Nothing
- One Take Grace
- President
- Sabaya
- Trenches
- Where Are We Headed
