Midnight Sun Film Festival 15-19 June 2011

International guests at the Midnight Sun Film Festival 15-19 June include:
Michael Chapman
Souleymane Cissé
Atom Egoyan
Tony Palmer
Apichatpong Weerasethakul

as well as:
Ahmet Boyacioglu
Gilles Charmant
Denis Côté
Don Edkins
Kate Ogborn
Athina Rachel Tsangari

Founding fathers presenting their new films:
Peter von Bagh
Aki Kaurismäki
Mika Kaurismäki
Anssi Mänttäri

Finnish guests:
Zaida Bergroth
Elina Knihtilä
Raimo O. Niemi
Jukka Virtanen

Masterclasses by:
Nick James
Olaf Möller

Silent film concerts:
Metropolis - a new score by Cleaning Women with Nara Ali Omar (vibraphone, perc), Gudmund Rotevatn (organ, synth), and Ivan Afanasyev (sound effects)
The Battleship Potyomkin (Edmund Meisel score by Silva Sound Creators)
Mutter Krausens Fahrt ins Glück (music by Silva Sound Creators)

Silva Sound Creators = ex-Prima Vista = Günter Buchwald (violin, piano), Frank Bockius (perc), Romano Todesco (double bass).