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Upcoming Film Event: Sunday, January 18 2009 at 2 pm

Tali - Ihantala 1944

“It is where Finland’s fate will be decided.” General A. F. Airo

Finland’s defences on the Karelian Isthmus break and Soviet troops advance with an overwhelming advantage in manpower and military equipment. The Finns have been beaten.

Guerrilla tactics in the forests are no longer enough, and some other solution must be found to contain the unprecedented offensive.

Tali – Ihantala 1944 recounts the events of the largest battle in the history of Scandinavia through five short stories. The defensive victory was a miracle. How was it ever achieved?

The film tells about the failed attempts of the summer of 1944 to achieve the impossible, stopping a greatly superior enemy and the final efforts to avert a defeat that seemed certain. This epic film deals with the miracle of Ihantala through the perspectives of ordinary people. Soldiers had to exhibit an unbelievable capacity to endure the inhumane harshness and brutality of war. But a soldier had a job to do.

That is what this film deals with: men at work.

Admission by donation - Refreshments - Film in Finnish with English subtitles

Finnish Movie: Christmas Story - Additional Info

Christmas Story - a film for the whole family

Reel 2 Real International Film Festival for Youth presents

Christmas Story

A film for the whole family

December 28, 2008 doors at 12:30pm, show at 1 pm
Director: Juha Wuolijoki // Finland 2007 // 80 min
Tickets $8.00/$6.00 students/seniors

More info and tickets at 604-224-6162 or r2rfestival.org  

In a remote village in Lapland, young Nikolas loses his family in an accident. The villagers decide to look after the orphaned boy together. Each family will take care of Nikolas for one year. At the end of each year, on Christmas Day, Nikolas has to move to a new home. To show his gratitude to the villagers, Nikolas decides to make toys for the children of the families as good-bye presents. Over the years, Nikolas´s former adoptive families become many, and soon almost every house has presents on its doorstep on Christmas morning. When the village suffers a food shortage, the Christmas present tradition is in danger of coming to an end.

Dubbed in English.

Short description
Set in a remote village in Lapland hundreds of years ago, this is the story of how an orphan came to be Santa Claus. Dubbed in English.

Showings:

December 6  Pacific Cinematheque 1131 Howe Street, Downtown Vancouver - one of the 25 films being shown during the European Union Film Festival  www.eufilmfestival.com
Tickets $ 9.50 + 3.00 membership fee.

December 28 is at VANCITY THEATRE, 1181 Seymour Street.  Phone: 604-683-3456. www.vifc.org/about/location.htm

Also at Pacific Cinematheque on November 28: The Estonian film TAARKA, a musical legend.

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Jackie Dives
Festival Coordinator
Reel 2 Real Intl Film Festival for Youth

604-874-4410
PO Box 45006 - 4326 Dunbar St
Vancouver, BC
V6S 2G3

Film Presentation Claes Olsson’s Colorado Avenue

Sunday, November 9, 2008 2:00 pm
The Hall at the Scandinavian Centre
Admission by donation
Refreshments

Colorado Avenue tells the story of Dollar-Hanna, dealing with humiliation, shame and respect.
When Hanna is little, she and her mother are forced to leave their home island in the Bothnia archipelago after Hanna´s father drowns at sea.

Hanna becomes a hired girl at the Smeds´ house. She starts to save money to go to America.

In 1893, at the age of 18, she travels to the Unites States and Colorado, determined to make money in the Great West.
Ten years later in 1905, Hanna returns to her home village Siklax with her son Otto and daughter Ida, but without a husband.

With her American dollars she buys a parcel of rocky land and opens a country store.

The store becomes the village centre and the local people begin to respect the industrious Hanna – or Dollar-Hanna as they choose to call her.

In Swedish with English Subtitles