Sodankyla Forever - The Century of Cinema

Running time: 89 mins

From the top of the world an amazing parade of filmmakers delivers a cornucopia of delights for film lovers everywhere.

At northern Finland?s Midnight Sun Film Festival in tiny Sodankylä, the world?s greatest filmmakers hold forth in conversation with festival director, film scholar and master interviewer Peter van Bagh on subjects ranging from film?s interpretation of 20th century history to their own first filmgoing experiences.

The roster of 40 directors reads like a veritable who?s-who of film, including Coppola, Sayles, Forman, Boorman, Powell, Skolimowski, Rosi, Erice, Makavejev, Kiarostami, Rafelson, Val Guest, Jonathan Demme, Jacques Demy, Andre de Toth, Sam Fuller, John Ford?s editor Robert Parrish, ?Gun Crazy? director Joseph H Lewis and many, many more.

This glorious celebration of film by its creators is fascinating, illuminating, revelatory and immensely entertaining. As DA Pennebaker (Monterey Pop; Don?t Look Back) says: "Woodstock is fuckin' nothing if you have been at the Midnight Sun Film Festival."

- Charlie Cockey

Film sponsored by the Applied Materials Foundation.