January 2016
Becoming Me will be screened at Tallinn DocPoint Documentary Film Festival in Estonia on Sat 30.1. at 16:00 (Kino Artis). Would you like to purchase a film for yourself? Visit here: http://www.avanton.fi/en/orders/
News
November 2015
Becoming Me will be screened at The 57th Nordische Filmtage in Lübeck Germany, The Northern Film Festival in Leeuwarden Netherlands and The 34th Oulu International Children’s and Youth Film Festival in Finland. The film will also be screened on TV1 (dokumenttiprojekti) on Mon 23.11. in Finland.
October 2015
The schoolscreenings of Becoming Me will be taken place in Jyväskylä on weeks 43 – 44 and in Vantaa (Flamingo) on Mon 26.10. Vive la France, co-produced by Avanton Productions, won the Compétition Pacifique / Bernheim Library award for the best Pacific full length film at The 9th Edition of the Ânûû-rû Âboron Film Festival in New Caledonia.
September 2015
Becoming Me -screenings at the cinema in Leppävaara, Espoo (Finnkino Sello) between18th-24th September. There will also be the screenings for pupils and students in Kuopio on 23rd September. The screenings are hosted by Kuopio Film Festival – Kuopion Vilimit. In Helsinki there will be one special screening at Kino Sheryl (Arabiankatu 8) on Tuesday 29th September at 19:30! The director Mina Laamo will be present at the screenings in Kuopion and Helsinki!
August 2015
Becoming me at the 22nd Blue Sea Film Festival in Rauma, Finland!
July 2015
Becoming Me has already been 11 weeks at cinemas (Finnkino Kinopalatsi) in Helsinki!
June 2015
Becoming Me will be screened at the European ARTE-tv-channel on 9th June! The film will also be screened at Institut Finlandais in Paris, France on 23rd June!
April 2015
Becoming Me will be screened on Wed 22nd April at 19 (45 Special) at Oulu Doc Lounge and will be released at cinemas on Fri 24th April in Helsinki, Tampere, Vaasa, Lahti and Sotkamo! Other cities will be announced later!
Blood Sisters, directed by Malin Andersson and co-produced by Avanton, will be screened at Hot Docs Festival in Toronto, Canada!
March 2015
Becoming me is taking part of the national competition at Tampere Film Festival. The sceening will be held on Thu 5.3. at 18 (Plevna 2). The film will also be screened at Millenium International Documentary Film Festival in Brussels, Belgium. Becoming Me also at Doc Lounge Tampere 24.3.2015 at 19:00, Klubi / Tampere, Finland.
Vive la France is participating the competition at One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival in Czech Republic.
January 2015
Becoming Me will be screened at DocPoint – Helsinki Documentary Film Festival on Tue 27.1. at 21 (Maxim 2) and on Sat 31.1. at 11 (Kinopalatsi 6) in Helsinki.
October 2014
Five Star Existence is taking part of the competition at BIFED 2014 – film festival in Bozcaada, Turkey.
Vive la France will be screened at the Chicago International Film Festival and Reykjavik International Film Festival in Iceland. Vive la France won a Special Mention Award at Pariscience – International Science Film Festival in France.
September 2014
The sneak preview of the documentary film Becoming Me at 27th Helsinki International Film Festival Love & Anarchy on Wed 24.9. at Kinopalatsi, Helsinki.
Vive la France will be screened at Reykjavik International Film Festival in Iceland in the end of September.
August 2014
No Man is an Island will be screened at Savonlinna International Film Festival, Finland.
May 2014
Vive la France will be screened at Nordic Docs Documentary Film Festival in Fredrikstad, Norway.
March 2014
Vive la France will be screened at Tempo Documentary Festival in Stockholm, Sweden.
January 2014
Vive la France, produced by Felix Film and co-produced by Avanton Productions, will have a premier at Göteborg International Film Festival in Sweden.
October 2013
Five Star Existence will be screened at Zeugma International Film Festival in Gaziantep, Turkey.
September 2013
Five Star Existence will be screened at International Human Rights Film Festival in Tirana, Albania.
August 2013
Five Star Existence will be screened at Yalikavak Film Festival in Bodrum, Turkey.
June 2013
Sonja Lindén won Kyiv Award (the best director) for her film Five Star Existence at the International Documentary Film Festival Kinolitopys 2013 in Kiev, Ukraine.
May 2013
Five Star Existence will be screened at Kinolitopys – International Documentary Film Festival in Kiev, Ukraine and at Millenium Festival in Brussels. In the beginning of June the film will be seen at Documentarist – Istanbul Documentary Days in Istanbul, Turkey.
April 2013
Five Star Existence will be screened at Millenium Festival in Prague on 26th April.
February 2013
Five Star Existence is screened on ETV (Eesti Televisioon) on Saturday 9.2. in Estonia!
January 2013
Five Star Existence (Virtuaalinen vapaus) is screened on YLE TV1 (Dokumenttiprojekti) on Monday 28.1. and on Saturday 2.2.!
December 2012
Forever yours is screened at Olympia International Film festival For Children and Young People in Greece and EU Human Rights Week in Brazil.
November 2012
Five Star Existence is screened at Pravo Ljudski Film Festival, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Forever Yours, Helping Mihaela and Five Star Existence will be seen at Interfaces, Institut Finlandais, Paris, France.
October 2012
Five Star Existence won the Jury Prize in the Human Image Competition at the BIFF Baghdad International Film Festival in Iraq.
Five Star Existence is sreened at the Finnish Film Days in Budapest, Kaohsiung Film Festival in Taiwan and NORDOX – Nordic Documentary Film Festival in Beijing.
Forever Yours is competing for the award of the Best European TV Documentary of the year 2012 at PRIX EUROPE 2012 in Berlin.
Helping Mihaela will be seen at Astra Film Festival – the International Documentary Film Festival in Sibiu, Romania.
September 2012
Forever Yours won the prizes for the Best Documentary as well as the Best Cinematography at the Saratov International Film Festival in Russia.
Five Star Existence is screened at the LOVE & ANARCHY International Film Festival in Helsinki and Doc-Sampo Documentary Film Festival in Riihimäki, Finland. The film will also be seen at Saratov International Film Festival in Russia, Festroia International Film Festival in Portugal, Reykjavik International Film Festival in Iceland and Milwaukee Film Festival in the USA.
August 2012
Five Star Existence is screened at the Sidewalk Film Festival in Birmingham (USA).
July 2012
Helping Mihaela is screened at Women’s International Film Festival in Chennai, India. Five Star Existence has been awarded the Documentary Competition Grand Jury Award at Seattle International Film Festival.
June 2012
Five Star Existence has been awarded the Best Future Watch prize at Documentary Edge Festival in New Zealand.
April 2012
Five Star Existence is screened at Full Frame Documentary Film Festival in Durham (USA).
March 2012
Helping Mihaela is screened at Tampere International Documentary Film Festival in Finland.
February 2012
You can now order Forever Yours on dvd! See more information on the page “orders”.
January 2012
Helping Mihaela and Five Star Existence are screened at DocPoint Documentary Film Festival in Helsinki, Finland. Forever Yours is awarded the Jussi-prize for Best Finnish Documentary 2011!
November 2011
Five Star Existence is screened at IDFA International Documentary Film Festival (Competition for Feature-Length Documentary).