Two projectionist inside the booth: Midnight Sun Film Festival, June 2017

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Watching movies is now so easy, even from my cell phone. Just a click, it's now fast, perfect.
Last June I went to the Midnight Sun Film Festivall in Lapland: four nightless days,155 movies, 28,000 moviegoers. 
Being an accredited photographer for the festival, I was allowed to move around freely into the screening halls. I took photos in one of these during a presentation by Spanish director Carlos Saura, followed by one of his movies. In the darkness of the theater, when the movie started, something caught my attention: the little spot of light opposite to the audience. This tiny light making visible dust in the air was the movie itself, or better, light translated into a movie. I walked in that direction to take a look, asked permission to the projectionists and they let me in.
The booth was a small room full of film reels, odd equipment on the tables, two guys, the lightning professionals, busy with those instruments, and two huge projectors. I found myself behind the scenes, in a microworld recalling Tornatore 's Cinema Paradiso: I was the child, fascinated by all that intrigue of celluloid films inside the projectors, the small light in the glass and the image projected on the big screen.

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• Waiting for SFF2017 in Alghero Waiting for SFF2017 in Alghero
• Sari Bozzolo and Rachele Falchi Sari Bozzolo and Rachele Falchi
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Carlo Dessì, artistic director of Sardinia Film Festival 2017, and journalist Rachele Falchi. Photo by Alessandro Mirai

This evening in Alghero will be completed the first part of Sardinia Film Festival, an international film award dedicated to shorts. At 21h00, in the historical location of Lo Quarter, will be announced the winners of four sections: 'Italian & International Fiction','International Documentary','School' and 'Vetrina Sardegna'.

For five days, under the artistic direction of Carlo Dessì, the XII edition of the festival screened some fifty works in original language with Italian subtitles. Three masterclasses were also organised: with producer Gianluca Arcopinto, DoP Beppe Lanci (from Centro sperimentale di cinematografia in Rome) and finally, yesterday, with Hungarian director Béla Tarr, with screening of his works 'Pròlogus' and 'Werckmeister Harmonies'.

This year, SFF operates in partnership with ESFF (Edinburgh) and Fastnet Film Festival (Schull), from which a selection of non-competing works has been screened. Our collaborator was particularly impressed by two documentaries: 'Spike' by Ian Tierney (2016) and Stephen James Smith // My Ireland' by Myles O'Reily (Ireland 2016).

Created in 2006, the Sardinia Film Festival receives each year about 1200 shorts from around the world; since 2011, it has set up the first Mediateca del Corto della Sardegna', which hosts all the shorts that participated in the SFF (fact-sheets available on-line). The SFF activated agreements with various institutions, including the Academy of Fine Arts 'Mario Sironi' in Sassari, allowing the attribution of credits to students volunteering during the festival.

Sardinia Film Festival will continue in 2017 in two different locations: August 17-19 in Villanova Monteleone (for the 'Italian Documentary' section) and from 31 August to 2 September in Bosa ('Animation' section).

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From left: Riikka Karppinen (Councillor, Municipality of Sodankylä), director Petteri Saario (Activis) and Ari Lehtola (Executive Manager, Midnight Sun Film Festival). Photo by Alessandro Mirai.

The 32th edition of the Midnight Sun Film Festival ended on June, 18th in Sodankylä (Finnish Lapland). During four days and four nights, 28,000 visitors have enjoyed more than 30 movie projections a day in four different venues (included two circus tents). To all these passionate visitors, guests, volunteers and festival organisers is dedicated the last series of shots by our collaborator Alessandro Mirai. 

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• Al-Bazoon, Koivu and Hyytiäinen Al-Bazoon, Koivu and Hyytiäinen
• Simon Al-Bazoon Simon Al-Bazoon
• Esko Valtaoja Esko Valtaoja
• Skater Skater
• Carlos Saura Carlos Saura
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Here some more photos sent by Alessandro Mirai, accredited photographer at the 32th edition of Midnight Sun Film Festival. These include: queuing before the projection of 'Toivon tuolla puolen' ('The Other Side of Hope') by Aki Kaurismäki, and three of its actors (Simon Al-Bazoon, Nuppu Koivu and Janne Hyytiäinen) during the presentation; Finnish astronomer and non-fiction writer Esko Valtaoja; Spanish director Carlos Saura; the Mykkäelokuvan orchestra, performing during silent movie projections.

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Alessandro Mirai, collaborator of terre di confine filmfestival, sent us some photos taken yesterday during the preparations for the Midnight Sun Film Festival in Sodankylä, Lapland.

More than a hundred films in four locations, including two circus tents, 24 hours a day, under the midnight sun; yesterday, 14 June 2017 was the opening day of the 32nd edition. 

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