The festival’s program includes, among other things, fashion glitter, Iranian feminism and John Webster’s retrospective.
The Helsinki documentary film festival DocPoint starts today, Tuesday. The software includes more than 80 films from Finland and around the world. We collected a few interesting selections from the festival program.
*Rapper of Northern Lights* is part of the domestic racing series. A total of seven long documentaries have been selected for the festival’s domestic racing series. The winner of the main prize of the domestic racing series, the DocPoint-Yle prize financed by Yle, will be revealed on February 4. in the evening.
DocPoint offers the opportunity to see, for example, the Prix Italia-awarded *Rooms of Light and Shadow* (2001) shot in Mumbai, India, and *Tissit ja tango* (1993) about depressed Finland.
The famous *Vacuum Cleaner Dealers* docker can be seen in Yle Areena:
International fashion and feminism
One of the most central themes of DocPoint 2023 is Looking at gender. The program includes several films that deal not only with the importance of gender in human life, but also with gender and sexual minorities.
Feminism is also discussed in Iranian director Mania Akbar’s documentary *How Dare You Have Such a Rubbish Wish.* It is a feminist essay film in which scenes from films made in different decades are examined from the point of view of the gaze, being the object of it, the body and the position of women. At the same time, it presents Iranian cinema before the revolution.
As a relief, we could highlight a documentary about the \”world’s oldest film club\” from Bradford, England. *A Bunch of Amateurs* is about a club founded in 1932 that is in trouble. The number of members is down and the average age is up. The rents are in arrears and the roof is falling on your neck.
The entire software can be found here.
*Which movie interests you the most? What was left out of the selections? You can discuss the topic 1.2. until 11 p.m.*