24 March 2015, 20:30, ICA Cinema
 
Film: Remembrance: A Small Film about Oulu in the 1950s [Muisteja: Pieni elokuva 1950-luvun Oulusta], Peter von Bagh, Finland, 2014, DCP, 86 minutes, Finnish with English subtitles

Introduced by Bernard Eisenschitz, film historian
 
An exercise in autobiography, Remembrance – A Small Film about Oulu in the 1950s brings together an extraordinary array of archival materials, images, music and other elements to reconstruct the filmmaker’s memories of growing up in Oulu, one of Finland’s largest cities and industrial cities. The film is a very tender and yet critical view of post-war Finland and its present. 

“Remembrance – A Small Film about Oulu in the 1950s is not only a bitter-sweet personal remembrance of things past but at the same time a meditation on the making of a generation and on the plight and follies of postwar Finland.” (Olaf Möller)

Supported by Goethe-Institut London and the Finnish Institute in London.