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PIRATE CINEMA @ SIPERIA

Pirate Cinema will show 2-4 movies every Wednesday, and every movie night has it's own theme. We also plan to organize some special extra shows during the spring.

Movies are mostly in English or include English subtitles, except the Finnish ones and some other exceptions. Movies in English will not include Finnish subtitles. Language and subtitles are mentioned in programme below.

Movies start at 18.00 and between the movies we have 5 to 10 minutes break. Caf'é Laika is open from 14.00 till 21.30 at least.

The Night Shows are films that will be shown if there's enough people wanting to stay late enough to watch them and if the equipment is available long enough.

MARCH: City of God, Amores Perros, Ghost Dog: The Way Of The Samurai, From Dusk Till Dawn, Vampires: Los Muertos

APRIL: Thirteen, Barb Wire, Boys Don't Cry, Spartacus, Hero, (Gladiator) We Interrupt This Empire, Fourth World War, Atomic Cafe, Black Hawk Down, Education For Death, The Great Dictator, (Schindler's List)

MAY: Land And Freedom, Battleship Potemkin, Viva Zapata!, Princess Mononoke, Porco Rosso, (Tokyo Godfathers), La Haine, Dirty Pretty Things, Boheemielämää, Calamarin Unioni, Mies vailla menneisyyttä

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More detailed info about the movies:
March
April
May
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MARCH 24th: URBAN LATIN AMERICA

18.00 CITY OF GOD (2002/Brazil/France/USA)
Directed by: Kátia Lund, Fernando Meirelles
Genre: Drama/Crime/Thriller. 130 minutes.
Two boys growing up in a violent neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro take different paths: one becomes a photographer, the other a drug dealer.
Language: Portuguese, English subtitles
IMDB: http://indie.imdb.com/title/tt0317248/

About 20.30 AMORES PERROS (2000/Mexico)
Directed by: Alejandro Gonzáles Iñárritu
Genre: Thriller/Drama. 153 minutes.
A horrific car accident connects three stories, each involving characters dealing with loss, regret, and life's harsh realities, all in the name of love.
Language: Spanish, English subtitles
IMDB: http://indie.imdb.com/title/tt0245712/

MARCH 31st: VIOLENT FICTION

18.00 GHOST DOG: THE WAY OF THE SAMURAI (1999/USA//France/Germany/Japan)
Directed by: Jim Jarmusch
Genre: Action/Crime/Drama. 116 minutes.
An African American mafia hit man who models himself after the samurai of old finds himself targeted for death by the mob.
Language: English
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0165798/

20.10 FROM DUSK TILL DAWN (1996/USA)
Directed by: Robert Rodriguez
Genre: Comedy/Horror/Action/Thriller. 108 minutes.
"Vampires. No interviews." Two brother criminals and their hostages encounter vampires at a Mexican bar. Strong violence and gore, language and nudity, Quentin Tarantino as the second writer.
Language: English, Spanish
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116367/

Night Show 22.00 VAMPIRES: LOS MUERTOS (2002/USA)
Directed by: Tommy Lee Wallace
Genre: Action/Horror/Thriller. 93 minutes.
A vampire hunter (Jon Bon Jovi) and a priest fight a band of the walking dead in Mexico. Truly amusing film as long as you don't take it too seriously.
Language: English
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0272147/

APRIL 7th: BEING A GIRL?

18.00 THIRTEEN (2003/USA/UK)
Directed by: Catherine Hardwicke
Genre: Drama. 100 minutes.
A thirteen-year-old girl's relationship with her mother is put to the test as she discovers drugs, sex, and petty crime in the company of her cool but troubled best friend.
Language: English
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0328538/

20.00 BARB WIRE (1996/USA)
Directed by: David Hogan
Genre: Action/Drama. 109 minutes.
21st century. USA. The second civil war. The whole country is in a state of emergency. What was formerly called the American Congress now rules with fascistic methods. There is only one free city left, Steel Harbor, headquarter for the resistance. This is the hometown of Barb Wire, owner of the night club Hammerhead...
Come and see Pamela Anderson having a good time with herself in shower...
Language: English
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0115624/

Night Show 22.00 BOYS DON'T CRY (1999/USA)
Directed by: Kimberly Peirce
Genre: Drama. 118 minutes.
The story of the life of Teena Brandon, a cross dressing youth who preferred life in her male identity as Brandon Teena. Life is good for Brandon, now that he's one of the guys and dating hometown beauty Lana. However, he's forgotten to mention that Brandon Teena is actually a woman named Teena Brandon. When Brandon's best friends make this discovery, his life eventually is ripped apart by betrayal, humiliation, rape, and murder. Based on actual events.
Language: English
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0171804/

APRIL 14th: EMPIRE

18.00 SPARTACUS (1960/USA)
Directed by: Stanley Kubrick
Genre: Romance/War/Action/Drama. 198 minutes.
The slave Spartacus leads a violent revolt against the decadent Roman empire. "This is an epic film of a man who grew to be the most unlikely leader...a film that should be viewed over and over and over again for its brilliance, its acting by the great Mr. Douglas, it's direction by Mr. Kubrick, it's locations and story."
Language: English
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0054331/

21.30 HERO (2002/Hong Kong/China)
Directed by: Yimou Zhang
Genre: Action/Drama/Romance. 96 minutes.
A series of Rashomon-like flashback accounts shape the story of how one man defeated three assassins who sought to murder the most powerful warlord in pre-unified China.
Language: Mandarin. English subtitles.
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0299977/

Night Show 23.15 GLADIATOR (2000/UK/USA)
Directed by: Ridley Scott
Genre: Drama/Action. 155 minutes.
When a Roman general is betrayed and his family murdered by a corrupt prince, he comes to Rome as a gladiator to seek revenge. "Best of 2000."
Language: English
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0172495/

APRIL 21st: THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH

18.40 FOURTH WORLD WAR
By: Big Noise Films
Genre: Documentary/Politics.
From the front-lines of conflicts in Mexico, Argentina, South Africa, Palestine, Korea, 'the North' from Seattle to Genova, and the 'War on Terror' in New York, Afghanistan, and Iraq. It is the story of men and women around the world who resist being annihilated in this war. Music from Manu Chao, Asian Dub Foundation etc.
Language: English
More information: http://www.bignoisetactical.org/

20.10 ATOMIC CAFE (1982/USA)
Directed by: Jane Loader, Kevin Rafferty
Genre: Documentary. 92 minutes.
Disturbing collection of 1960s United States government issued propaganda films designed to reassure Americans that the atomic bomb was not a threat to their safety.
Trivia: Rafferty is a cousin of George W. Bush.
Language: English
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083590/

Night Show 21.50 BLACK HAWK DOWN /Isku Mogadishuun (2001/USA)
Directed by: Ridley Scott
Genre: Action/Drama/War. 144 minutes.
123 elite U.S. soldiers drop into Somalia to capture two top lieutenants of a renegade warlord and find themselves in a desperate battle with a large force of heavily-armed Somalis.
Language: English/Somali
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0265086/

APRIL 28th: THIRD REICH

18.00 EDUCATION FOR DEATH (1943/USA)
Directed by: Clyde Geronomi
Genre: Propaganda/Animation. About 20 minutes.
Disney's propaganda animation from the middle of WW II. A rather depressing story as Little Hans, a young German youth, is indoctrinated into the Nazi way of life, with tragic results.
Language: English
More: http://disneyshorts.toonzone.net/years/1943/educationfordeath.html

18.30 TRIUMPH OF THE WILL / TRIUMPH DES WILLENS (1934/Germany)
Directed by: Leni Riefenstahl
Genre: Documentary/Propaganda. 114 minutes.
The infamous propaganda film of the 1934 Nazi Party rally in Nürnberg, Germany.
Language: German. English subtitles.
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0025913/

20.40 THE GREAT DICTATOR (1940/USA)
Directed by: Charles Chaplin
Genre: Comedy. 124 minutes.
In Chaplin's satire on Nazi Germany, dictator Adenoid Hynkel has a double... a poor Jewish barber... who one day is mistaken for Hynkel. Language: English/Esperanto
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032553/

Night Show 23.00 SCHINDLER'S LIST (1993/USA)
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
Genre: Drama/War. 194 minutes.
Oskar Schindler uses Jews to start a factory in Poland during the war. He witnesses the horrors endured by the Jews, and starts to save them. Based on actual events.
Language: English/Hebrew/German
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108052/

MAY 5th: OLDSTYLE REVOLUTIONS

18.00 LAND AND FREEDOM (1995/UK/Spain/Germany/Italy)
Directed by: Ken Loach
Genre: Drama/War. 109 minutes.
Spring 1936, a young unemployed communist, David, leaves his hometown Liverpool to join the fight against fascism in Spain. He joins an international group of Militia-men and women, the POUM (Partido Obrero de Unificación Marxista). After being wounded he goes to Barcelona, where he decides to join another group of fighters.
Language: English/Spanish
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114671/

20.00 BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN / BRONENOSETS POTYOMKIN (1925/Soviet Union)
Directed by: Grigori Aleksandrov, Sergei M. Eisenstein
Genre: Drama/War. 75 minutes.
Based on the historical events the movie tells the story of a riot at the battleship Potemkin. What started as a protest strike when the crew was given rotten meat for dinner ended in a riot. The sailors raised the red flag and tried to ignite the revolution in their home port Odessa.
Language: Silent
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0015648/

21.30 VIVA ZAPATA! (1952/USA)
Directed by: Elia Kazan
Writing credits: John Steinbeck
Starring: Marlon Brando, Anthony Quinn
Genre: Drama. 113 minutes.
Language: English
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045296/

MAY 12nd: ANIME

18.00 PRINCESS MONONOKE (1997/Japan)
Directed by: Hayao Miyazaki
Genre: Action/Fantasy/Adventure/Animation/Drama. 134 minutes.
On a journey to find the cure for a Tatarigami's curse, Ashitaka finds himself in the middle of a war between the forest and Tataraba, a mining colony. In this quest he also meets San, the Mononoke Hime.
Language: Japanese. English or Finnish subtitles.
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119698/

20.30 PORCO ROSSO (1992/Japan/France)
Directed by: Tony Bancroft, Hayao Miyazaki
Genre: Genre: Action/Fantasy/Adventure/Animation/Drama. 93 minutes.
The adventures of a 1930's bush pilot who just happens to look like a humanoid pig.
Language: Japanese. English subtitles.
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104652/

Night Show 22.10 TOKYO GODFATHERS (2003/Japan) (Unconfirmed)
Directed by: Shogo Furya, Satoshi Kon
Genre: Adventure/Animation/Drama. 92 minutes.
Christmas in Tokyo. Three homeless friends: a young girl, a transvestite, and a middle-aged bum.
Language; Japanese/Spanish. English or Finnish subtitles.
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0388473/

MAY 19th: MIGRATION AND MOVEMENT

18.00 LA HAINE /Viha (1995/France)
Directed by: Mathieu Kassovitz
Genre: Drama. 96 minutes.
Injured by a police inspector during an interrogatory, Abdel is at hospital, almost dead. In the suburbs where he lives, some riots happened during the night, and one policeman lost his gun. One of Abdel's friend, Vinz, finds it. Vinz and his two pals, Said and Hubert, have nothing to do, they try to kill time. Vinz swears that if Abdel dies, he will shoot a policeman...
Language: French. English or Finnish subtitles.
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113247/

20.00 DIRTY PRETTY THINGS (2002/UK)
Directed by: Stephen Frears
Genre: Drama/Thriller. 107 minutes.
Okwe, a kind-hearted Nigerian doctor, and Senay, a Turkish chambermaid, work at the same West London hotel. The hotel is run by Senor Sneaky and is the sort of place where dirty business like drug dealing and prostitution takes place. However, when Okwe finds a human heart in one of the toilets, he uncovers something far more sinister than just a common crime.
Language: English/Somali
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0301199/

Night Show 22.00 LILJA 4-EVER (2002/Denmark/Sweden)
Directed by: Lukas Moodysson
Genre: Drama. 109 minutes.
Lilja is 16 years old and her only friend is the young boy Volodja. They live in a poor village in the Soviet Union, fantisizing about a better life. One day, Lilja falls in love with Andrej. He is going to Sweden, and invites Lilja to come along and start a new life.
Language: German/Swedish/English/Russian. English or Finnish subtitles.
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0300140/

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