Metal
Our special themes please especially those savoring the heavier kind of rock. Receiving its Finnish premiere, Global Metal documentary presents the anthropologist and metal head Sam Dunn, who traces fans of metal all the way in China, Indonesia and Iran. And since we got started, the steely trip continues with Dunn's previous film Metal: A Headbanger's Journey (2005).
To top it all, we also bring you the thrash metal chronicle Get Thrashed (2006) and the Wacken Open Air documentary Full Metal Village (2006). Hard rock is also approached with a smirk on our face: the ultimate air guitar flick Air Guitar Nation is screened in an authentic film style. In addition to this, our cooperation with MTV Finland brings on the screen the Best of Headbanger's Ball, the dedicated metal show on MTV.
More on the Screenings:
Global Metal
Metal: A Headbanger's Journey
Full Metal Village
Get Thrashed - The Story of Thrash Metal
Air Guitar Nation
MTV Headbanger's Ball
Musicals
Nostalgia trip starts gloriously with the cult musical Hair (1979), only to speed up with the director Baz Luhrmann's Red Curtain trilogy, which includes his sweet debut Strictly Ballroom (1992) and the ultra glorious Romeo + Juliet (1996) and Moulin Rouge! (2001).
Exotic glamour of the Bollywood box office hits Kabhie Khushi, Kabhie Gham (2001) and Om Shanti Om (2007) are sure to knock you off your heels.
More on the screenings:
Hair
Strictly Ballroom
Romeo + Juliet
Moulin Rouge!
Kabhie Khushi, Kabhie Gham
Om Shanti Om
Girls
If you thought the Spice Girls meant Girl Power, you haven't seen these films. Lovely ladies are presented in the film debut of Nina Persson, the frontwoman of the Swedish pop delight The Cardigans, in Om Gud vill (2006) and in Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing! (2006), as well as in the true female energy reflecting documentary Girls Rock! (2007).
More on the Screenings:
Om Gud vill
Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing!
Girls Rock!
Marginally Mainstream
No festivities without some underground: if you're in the mood for some alternative culture, check out the crookest vids in the ValveT UNDERGROUND screening. Oulu's own cultural agonists, Acid Cinema collective presents also their newest brainchild, The Jolly Scoundrel silent film.
The best international street artists are presented in the Finnish premiere of the documentary Beautiful Losers.
Special screenings treat the electro theme in a vast scale, from social issues to the art itself. Copyright dilemmas are illustrated in the documentary Bad Copy, Good Copy (2007). The best musicians of the machined music take us to a journey in the films Sounds like Suomi (2007) and Saturnus Reality (2007). And if you still didn't have enough, you can take a look at the tastiest electronica videos.
More on the Screenings:
ValveT UNDERGROUND
Acid Cinema: The Jolly Scoundrel
Beautiful Losers
Good Copy, Bad Copy
Sounds like Suomi
Saturnus Reality
Electronica Videos
Jättebra Music Videos
A music video festival without the real thing is like a mole without sunglasses. According to its name, OMVF has yet again collected a healthy portion of world-famous music videos to one nice package. Super douper screenings include the wicked daydreams of the Swedes and the most innovative Revolver Animations. A queer perspective to the music video art is taken in the gay and lesbian music video compilation.
More on the Screenings:
Daydream Nation
Revolver Animation
Gay and Lesbian Videos
Classics
The classic special screenings bring to the big screen the mother of all the mockumentaries, This Is Spinal Tap (1984). Classic ads can be admired in the three comprehensive screenings of the Golden Oldies. In addition to this, we curated together the most passion provoking Finnish and international video classics. And since we wouldn't excist without the Pumpelis, the special screening program gets its highlight with the best of the Pumpeli Awarded Videos.
More on the Screenings:
This Is Spinal Tap
International Golden Oldies
Finnish & International Video Classics
Pumpeli Awarded Videos I & II
