Only in one sitting, we are invited to an adventure of our chair, day trips while empathizing with the character, culture, and a much different place, as if out of a barrage of celluloid tape. We do not own, we are tangent to elbow with other tourists to share a virtual tour of comfort and experience of cinema.
Love of cinema with this tour who participated gave birth to various film festivals around the world. The film festival celebrates movies as an exciting cultural social activities. Go watch the film festivals around the world can bring us many times.
Like when a visiting circus carnival troupe. The film festival can offer a variety of film genres from different countries holding up the theme and story that marginal communities usually do not have a place in the industry.
The film festival became an art convention and business meeting, discussion and respect for human film. Well as ordinary people while sharing fun watching a movie.
For those addicted to cinema, the annual film festival into heaven itself, and could push them outward trip to the town where the film festival is being held. Not infrequently, the identity of a city and culture are formed from various film festivals. Call it the Cannes, Venice, San Sebastian and Toronto who could suck the tourists when they held the prestigious film festival.
Helsinki did not want to miss. For more than two decades, the Helsinki International Film Festival did not escape were held each fall for ten days, celebrating love and anarchy in the cinema.
Helsinki International Film Festival is more familiarly known by the citizens of Helsinki as Rakkautta & Anarkiaa or outward means Love and Anarchy. It is indeed a romantic bike adventure cinema in this festival. Its not competitive, giving the opportunity for alternative and radical film themes from around the world to perform alongside mainstream films.
So it is said it takes the liver with a large tolerance capacity, a critical and rebellious attitude that wild imagination to enjoy this diverse series of films. But of course, always be yourself, choose film according to taste and are willing to be entertained by the cinema has become a pretty safe choice.
Opening film could be a picture of the character of this festival. The festival opened with a fantastic work of Pablo Almodovar's "The Skin I Live In" which combines the horror genre, melodrama, and the thriller with a touch of his trademark narration and cinematography attacks.
Then along more than a week, we are provoked, entertained and encouraged to think. Then also feel a sensation only because the game moving pictures and sound a message of love to shout questions at once, if not resistance to the status quo.
We can get caught in a terrorist attack in Iraq along with a documentary film director in "20 Ciggarettes". It could also sing "Pata Pata" or look the history of South Africa's struggle against apharteid with legendary songstress Miriam Makeba in "Mama Africa".
Then fell in love and hope to drive a car through the night along with the character of Ryan Gosling in "Drive". Then stunned proudly watched the team work of animator Indonesia as offerings director Eric Khoo's manga artist Yoshihiro Tatsumi in "Tatsumi".
Up to explore the thought of prominent Iranian director Jafar Panahi who sanctioned ban filming. But he kept fighting for the freedom to work and think through "This is not a movie". Charisma Kaurismaki
The film festival is also a distinct social attraction due to the star power that can suck the masses. Like the Sundance Film Festival that can not be separated from the big names Robert Redford and Tribeca Film Festival in New York from Robert de Niro, this year's Helsinki International Film Festival managed to bring Mika Kaurismäk.
Mika Kaurismäk is renowned Finnish director. Out of hiding in Brazil, he came to promote his latest documentary film, Mama Africa.
He succeeded in reviving the spirit of African diva, Miriam Makeba a very bewitching and motherly personality and vocal against injustice. The heart of this film lies in the statement Makeba, "I do not sing about politics, I sing about the truth".
Charisma and humility Kaurismaki emitted during an informal question and answer session with the audience and warm after a screening of the movie Mama Africa. The touch of Finnish culture still feels despite some of the themes the film is very thick with Latin American and African culture.
Besides active Midnight Sun Film Festival held a film festival that plays non-stop movies under the summer sun that shines all night, Mika with his brother Aki, a film that introduced the Finnish ambassador widely to the world.
Not only culturally but also like to bring us a walk around the country. If the opportunity, try to get acquainted and get around the various corners of the area in Helsinki together virtually all of whom fourteen character named Frank in the movie Aki titled "Calamari Union".
Tourism cinema incomplete without watching a documentary on the popular local, "Finnsurf" about surfing on the coast of Finland, snowy and rocky steep in minus temperatures. This extreme sport has become a lifestyle alternative to the surfers who can not enjoy every moment of a tropical paradise with a charming like the waves in Bali.
Cold sea water and rock could break the body and the waves are low because of the short coast, did not dampen the guts and passion of this anarchic surfers.
With bright costumes of anti-cold surf and weather reports prakiran, they took off their everyday identity as an accountant, construction worker or other professional. Then catch the rain storms that can generate high waves that challenge.
Reflections on life as a Finn with the harsh nature. As well as their dreams are in the warmth of Balinese cultural perspective gives only be found in this cinema tour.
Roving Culture Cinemas watching the movie house presents its own travel experience when we visit the many old movies that are still preserved and operates in Helsinki. In addition to historically unique and architecture, we also get a different experience from one theater to another.
Some famous old cinema such as Orion, Biorex, Maxim and Andorra as well as Dubrovnik. These theaters playing the film festival this year's collection of networks with large biokop Finnkino.
Tatsumi saw the animated film in the oldest theater in Helsinki, Maxim became the maximum viewing experience. Djakarta Theater Like the ancient times with a two-story theater, the audience can choose to sit at the lower level or balcony.
In terms of size of course, Maxim designed a small and compact but still leave room for those who sit comfortably. Rows of red velvet chair with classic ornaments on the roof of the screen complete with dark green curtains and ancient reliefs on both sides as to bring us back to the early 19th century by ancient Greek theatrical atmosphere.
You can also watch movies while lounging near the bar or a row of Dubrovnik on the studio couch in the basement while the Corona Bar menengak cold beer or a glass of red wine according to mood. Who knew you could sit next to each other and discuss the film with its owner, Kaurismaki brothers.
Try also peeked open lecture on the history of world film, held each Monday evening in early November by University of Helsinki in Orion, a small cinema with a single theater. The distance is closer than usual Corona and play a variety of classic and eclectic movies.
If you want to feel a big studio and bulk, visit the Bio Rex and traditional feel sensations such as when he was in Djakarta Theatre glorious past combined with mega-capacity studio Blitz Megaplex Jakarta. Then do not miss the film museum in Tennispalatsi which lies between the Bio Rex and Dubrovnik.
After visiting the city's iconic White Church, you can cross the road stopped at the City Museum with Kino Engel, a small movie theater on the ground floor. This theater used to play the Finnish short films for free.
Of course you can also easily visit the network of modern cinema. As Kinopalatsi and managed Tennispalatsi Finnkino with dozens of studios scattered across the country remind us of the monopoly networks in Indonesia XXI.
If not prevented, I shall see in a quarter century at the Helsinki International Film Festival September 20 to 30 2012.
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