Finland’s leading film festival Love & Anarchy is ready to celebrate its 35th edition, free of COVID restrictions and finally able to focus on the films and the audience, says executive directo…
is ready to celebrate its 35th edition, free of COVID restrictions and finally able to focus on the films and the audience, says executive director Anna Möttölä in Helsinki. But it has been a bittersweet time, marked by the loss of Jean-Luc Godard and Lina Wertmüller back in December, whose 1973 film gave the event its name.
The festival will also address another weighty subject: Russian invasion of Ukraine. While the event hasn’t officially banned Russian films, they won’t be showing any this year.“We want to focus on Ukrainian films. Give them our full attention, as they can be sidelined in the debate about banning Russian titles. They should be the focus of the discussion.”
“We are not afraid of taking a stand and are ready to talk about this decision as well, the decision not to show Russian films,” argues Möttölä. Focusing on vulnerable or underrepresented groups has been a part of the event’s legacy, he notes, welcoming LGBTQ+ films all the way back in the 1990s. Visual artist Minna Havukainen’s latest offering “Puutarha” will continue the tradition.
“Finnish film has been doing well for more than 20 years – it’s time to acknowledge there are different audiences now. It has been happening with [Finnish Oscar submission] ‘Girl Picture’ or ‘Memory of Water,’ science-fiction arthouse movie.”
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