1st European Art Cinema Day - A Finnish Evening at Uránia

The 1st European Art Cinema Day, launched by CICAE (International Confederation of Art Cinemas), will take place for the first time on 9 October 2016. More than 1,000 cinemas around Europe will celebrate the variety of European filmmaking, with previews and film talks which testify to arthouse cinemas' commitment to showing a variety of vivid cultural works.

On this occasion, Urania National Film Theatre will co-organize with FinnAgora a Finnish Evening.
The event, beginning az 7pm, focuses on the pre-premiere screening of THE HAPPIEST DAY IN THE LIFE  OF OLLI MÄKI (Hymyilevä Mies). The screening will be accompanied by two shorts: OCCUPY JÄMSÄ, selected from the competition programme of this years BUSHO Budapest Short Film Festival, and the short animation SWARMING, selected from a previous edition of Primanima Wolrld Festival of First Animations - Joni Männistö, the creator of SWARMING will be in the jury of Primanimas up-coming edition beginning on October 19th!

After the screenings, the audience will have the chance to taste some Finnish beverages, thanks to FinnAgora, and discuss the films seen with Cita Högnabba-Lumikero, director of FinnAgora, Allan Sorensen, Program Director of Titanic Film Festival and Balázs Vízer, film critic, journalist. Topics as Finnish cinema beyond Aki Kaurismäki, cultural steretypes about Finnland or the Finnish art of humour can be addressed.  The discussion takes place in English (OLLI MÄKI is screened in Finnish with Hungarian subtitles, OCCUPY JÄMSÄ in Finnish with English subtitles).

The promotion of events of the 1st European Art Cinema Day in Hungary are supported by CICAE and the Ministry of Human Capacities and coordinated by the Art Cinema Association. The event at Urania is a co-production of the film theatre and FinnAgora, BUSHO - Budapest Short Film Festival és a Primanima - Wolrld Festival of First Animations.

The films in detail:

OCCUPY JÄMSÄ black comedy, 15', 2015
dir: Jaakko Kaján

A construction worker fortifies himself in a digger and calls out his friend in order to execute his dramatic plan.

SWARMING animation, 7', 2011

dir: Joni Männistő

A child discovers life inside a dead bird and starts to play with it.

THE HAPPIEST DAY IN THE LIFE  OF OLLI MÄKI
black and white drama, Finnland-Sweden-Germany, 92', 2016