Among the most popular flicks at Finland’s biggest film festival were La vie d'Adèle: Chaptres 1 et 2 by French-Tunisian director Abdellatif Kechiche, the Gala Show of Won Kar Wai’s _The Grandmaster, _and the controversial documentary _The Act of Killing _by Joshua Oppenheimer – who has been in Helsinki editing a follow-up to his award-winning doc about Indonesia’s mass-killers.
An annual fixture at the festival, the Finnish Film Week that showcases home-grown cinema was particularly successful. Reflecting a year of strong domestic films, the Film Week nearly doubled its audience from the previous year, with over 4,000 tickets sold.
Though finishing up in Helsinki, the Festival will now take to the road with a tour that brings its eclectic offerings to other parts of the country. Shows are in store in localities including Turku, Jyväskylä, Kuopio, Tampere and Hanko.