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DocPoint - Helsinki Documentary Film Festival
Start date: Jul 27, 2014, End date: May 27, 2015 PROJECT  FINISHED 

DocPoint - Helsinki Documentary Film Festival Association organizes annual DocPoint - Helsinki Documentary Film Festival and DOKKINO - a whole year documentary film tour for school age children around Finland. 14th DP festival will be organized January 27 - February 1, 2015. DOKKINO selection tours around Finland and will be screened for 10.000 childeren. DP Association takes action to ensure the implementation of the festival and DOKKINO. A six-day festival takes place in the five theaters in Helsinki, Finland. Festival screenings will be organized also in 5-6 other cities in Finland. A four-day festival DocPoint Tallinn will be organized at the same time in Estonia. The festival week in Helsinki consists film screenings (around 140 documentaries), Q&A’s, the main seminar (deals with one theme of the programme), Master Class, Encounters 2015 seminar day aimed at film industry professionals and students, Lifetime Achievement Award Ceremony & Seminar, VOXPoint - Cinephonic Consert, clubs, sauna evening for industry guests. In addition numerous side events for the audience are organized in cooperation with partners. Program showcases the whole scope of documentary filmmaking from the best contemporary Finnish, European and worldwide documentaries to the experimental and archive documentaries. Festival programme includes following selections: most talked about documetary films of the past year in 6-8 thematic selections, New Finnish Documentaries, retrospective of Lifetime Achievement, Meet the Master retrospective, Classic – a master from the documentary history, Vanishing point - the experimental documentary selection, DOKKINO selection for children and youth, Finnish student films. 14th DocPoint festival's main theme will be Seas and Oceans, programming is searching films from two European seas - Baltic Sea and Mediterranean. DocPoint plans to focus also on the strong creative documentaries of the Benelux countries, especially Belgium and the Netherlands.
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