Father to Son (Isä pojalle)
Father to Son is a personal exploration of the relationship between fathers and sons through four generations of the filmmaker's family, and the conflict that inevitably arises when subjective memories differ from "reality". The film asks: how much do we become reproductions of those who brought us into the world? Is it really possible to break behavioural patterns? And are the values we have inherited from our fathers still valid in the modern world? Father to Son is bound to provoke.
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“In this personal film, the filmmaker examines his problematic relationship with his father and his feelings about his own fatherhood.”
International Documentary Festival Amsterdam 2004
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When
7:45 PM Thursday, 24 February
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Greater Union - Cinema 2
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Full price $14
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General DocumentariesAbout Father to Son
52 minutesPrint Source
Finnish Film Foundation
Marja Pallassalo
marja.pallassalo@ses.fi
Awards
Best Nordic Documentary, Nordisk Panorama 2004Festivals
Reykjavik 2004Cork 2004
Amsterdam 2004
Tampere 2004
About the Director
Visa Koiso-Kanttila
Visa Koiso-Kanttila was born in 1970. He graduated from The Turku School of Art and Media in 1996 and studied documentary film at The New School University and Film/Video Art in New York. He founded his own production company Guerilla Films Ltd in 1999. He is also a co-member of Elephant Films Ltd – The Finnish directors' group. Visa Koiso-Kanttila has won several awards in national competitions.
Filmography
Father to Son (2004)End of the Line (2000)
God Willing (1999)
The Banished (1998)
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