10th Thessaloniki documentary festival - Tribute to Arto Halonen
Arto Halonen, one of the most important directors of a new generation of Finnish filmmakers, will attend the 10th TDF on 7.3.-16.3.2008 to present and discuss some of his seminal works.
Halonen, who has built his career by listening to and recording the voices of those not easily heard, is considered an ever-inquiring, bold documentarian, for whom filmmaking and humanitarian action are inextricably linked.
He is the founder of the DocPoint - Helsinki Documentary Film Festival, the most significant event of its kind in the Scandinavian region and of the production company Art Films Production AFP Ltd, which funds and supports independent and incisive projects. For his work in both fields he has been honored with the EU HumanitarianAward (1998) and the Finland Prize (2005), the highest prize in the arts given by the Finnish Ministry of Culture.
The films of the tribute
Something in the Blood, 1994
A Dreamer and the Dreamtribe, 1998
Karmapa – Two Ways of Divinity, 1998
The Star’s Caravan, 2000
The Tank Man, 2004
Conquistadors of Cuba, 2005
Pavlov’s Dogs, 2005
Shadow of the Holy Book, 2007
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10th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival
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