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Inaugural Scandinavian Film Festival

Posted on 22/05/2014 by faccadmin in News

SFF 2014

The inaugural Scandinavian Film Festival is set to heat up the Australian Winter this July with the coolest films from Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland and Iceland hitting screens nationally.

Presented by Palace and screening exclusively at Palace Cinema locations, the Scandinavian Film Festival will delight audiences with the best drama, crime and comedy of the region.

With Scandinavian crime drama the hottest property of the last few years, it only made sense to delve even deeper into Nordic film. Australian audiences will have the chance to experience the breadth of style, humour, action and mystery that Scandinavian film has to offer. Here are a few titles from the 2014 edition to whet your appetite…

The Festival will open with the Swedish blockbuster The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (Hundraaringen som klev ut genom fonstret och forsvann). A delightful, colourful comedy of unexpected surprises based on the hugely successful international bestselling novel by Jonas Jonasson which was published in more than 35 countries. This is the unlikely story of Allan Karlsson (played by popular Swedish actor/comedian Robert Gustafsson), a 100-year-old man with an eventful past who keeps stumbling into extraordinary circumstances.

Easy Money III: Life Deluxe (2013) is the final installment following JW, an economics student who falls into the seductive world of drug running. To celebrate, the entire trilogy will be screened starting with Sweden’s top-grossing film of 2010 Easy Money (Snabba cash) and Easy Money II: Hard to Kill (2012) all of which star Joel Kinnaman (RoboCop, The Killing). Based on Jens Lapidus’ international best-selling novel, Easy Money is a taut, intelligent feature, which went on to be presented by fan Martin Scorsese in the USA and UK.

From Finland, director Taru Mäkelä’s August Fools (Mieleton Elokuu) is a smart, uplifting comedy set in the context of the Cold War. Marvellously multilayered, the story is loosely based on real political events, paired with a delightful romance. Set in 1962, a middle-aged milliner, part-time clairvoyant, is forced to revisit the past when the man she loved 20 years ago and thought dead walks into her little hat shop in Helsinki.

The rugged, isolated beauty of Iceland is showcased in the powerful family drama Metalhead (Málmhaus) – a story of loss and grief led by a breathtaking and award-winning performance by Thorbjörg Helga Thorgilsdóttir. As a 12 year-old, Hera (Thorgilsdóttir) witnesses the tragic accident that kills her older brother, Baldur. But not long after the loss, it is as though the heavy-metal-loving Baldur has never left her side as Hera takes on her brother’s identity, claiming his wardrobe, record collection and electric guitar.

A complicated tangle of race, love and family is explored in I Am Yours (Jeg er din) from Norway. Amrita Acharia’s (Game of Thrones) multifaceted performance is captivating and sympathetic in the taut, intelligent relationship drama by director Iram Haq.

Denmark’s Mikkel Norgaard demonstrates Danish suspense at its best in The Keeper of Lost Causes (Kvinden i buret). Scripted by Nikolaj Arcel (the original The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and A Royal Affair) and based on the international bestselling crime-thriller of the same title, the film follows a police officer who gets reassigned to a dead-end new department for old, terminated cases. Although given explicit orders to only read and sort through the cases, not a single day passes before he is thrown headfirst into a mystery of a well-known female politician.

The full program launches in early June.

For more information visit www.scandinavianfilmfestival.com

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Finns Vs Aussies in Volleyball World League 2014

Posted on 02/05/2014 by faccadmin in News

WELCOME to the world’s toughest volleyball competition, the FIVB WORLD LEAGUE.

The World League is a competition between national men’s indoor volleyball teams from 28 countries.  The teams are divided into eight pools, and playoff in a series of double home and away matches.  The winning teams progress to group finals and, potentially, the League finals.

In 2014, Australia’s Volleyroos will host the Pool C intercontinental rounds, and the finals for Group 2.

Australia and Finland are both in Pool C, together with national teams from Belgium and Canada.  The Finns will meet the Aussies at AIS Arena in Canberra on 7 and 8 June.

If you are a fan of indoor volleyball, or just looking to support Finland’s sporting elite, this is your opportunity of a lifetime.

Pack your bags, flags and banners and get down to Canberra.

Tickets are available online at http://www.worldleagueaustralia.com.

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Alexander Stubb to visit Sydney, Canberra and Perth

Posted on 25/10/2013 by faccadmin in News

Finland’s Minister for European Affairs and Foreign Trade, Mr. Alexander Stubb, will visit Sydney, Canberra and Perth, for meetings with Federal and State government representatives and with senior executives of the Australian business community, from 1 – 3 December.

Alexander Stubb photo

Alexander Stubb

While the primary objective of the visit will be to seek new opportunities in trade and investment, between Finland and Australia, the Minister will also speak at a high-level European Australian Business Council luncheon in Sydney on 2 December and at a business event in Perth on Tuesday 3 December. He will also attend a Finnish Australian Chamber of Commerce business networking event in Sydney to celebrate the Chamber’s 10 year anniversary.

The Minister will discuss, with his Australian counterparts, Finland’s growing trade relationship with Australia and also the role Finland, as a dynamic Nordic country, can play in assisting Australian organizations enter the European and Russian markets. He will also talk about Finland’s innovation policies, which has seen it ranked in the top 3 of the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report (2012-13), and how the country has become a global leader in education – continuously ranked on top of the OECD’s PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment) survey.

Further, as Minister Stubb is considered to be Finland’s leading ‘Brussels-insider’ he will share his personal insights on the EU and the future of the Euro with his Australian audience.

The Minister will be accompanied by a business delegation which will be lead by Mr Pekka Lundmark, global CEO of Konecranes, a world-leading high technology company supplying equipment to ports, which already has a strong presence in Australia. The delegation will comprise companies from sectors such as mining equipment & technology, healthcare and ICT.

Background on Minister Stubb:

Dr. Alexander Stubb M.P., 45, has been a Cabinet minister in the Finnish Government since 2008. He served as Minister for Foreign Affairs for three years and has been the Minister for European Affairs and Foreign Trade since 2011. He was a Member of the European Parliament in Strasbourg and Brussels from 2004 to 2008. He earned his Ph.D. at the London School of Economics and has been a Lecturer/Visiting Professor at the European College in Bruges.

Minister’s Details: http://www.alexstubb.com/en/
Minister’s Publications: http://www.alexstubb.com/en/publications/

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