In March 2025, Institut finlandais is back with a series of screenings as part of the Hors Pistes / Paths Less Travelled programme.
Hors Pistes / Paths Less Travelled is a programme that explores the trajectories of our ever-changing lives, and the paths we take to reconnect to ourselves, others and the world around us. On this occasion, we have invited Finnish cinema expert Irmeli Debarle to select three movies for our cinema programme.
Through the season’s film selection, we get to follow an initially friendly relationship that turns into a rivalry in The Disciple, a group taking a vacation that changes each of their lives in Adult Camp, and the path of a young orphan showing us that with humour and sensitivity, the instinctive energy of life allows us to overcome unbearable emotions, in Boy Upside Down.
As always on screening evenings, Institut finlandais’ boutique and Café Maa will remain open until the film starts at 7pm. Enjoy a drink or a snack before the film! Book your seats for each screening on our online ticket shop.
Book the full cycle at a reduced price here.
PROGRAMME
Thursday 13 March 2025 at 7pm
The Disciple (2013)
Lärjungen
Directed by Ulrika Bengts
1h 33min/French subtitles
The Disciple is a film that follows 13-year-old Karl, who arrives on a remote island to be the lighthouse keeper’s apprentice in 1939. The island is inhabited only by the keeper’s family, whose son is the same age as the newcomer. The initially friendly relationship between the two teenagers turns into rivalry when the lighthouse keeper prefers Karl over his son. Set in magnificent nature, a stifling and violent drama unfolds.
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Thursday 20 March 2025 at 7pm
Boy Upside Down (2014)
Aikuisten poika
Directed by Juha Lehtola
1h 34min/French subtitles
Boy Upside Down is a tragicomic film that follows the life of 11-year-old Oliver, who loses his parents in a car accident. He leads a stubborn investigation to find out the circumstances and prove that his father is not responsible. In the process, he meets adults who are anything but ordinary and gets involved in their lives. This dynamic film, set in Tampere in the summer, shows with humour and sensitivity that the instinctive energy of life allows us to overcome unbearable emotions.
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Friday 28 March 2025 at 7pm
Adult Camp (2015)
Viikossa aikuiseksi
Directed by Johanna Vuoksenmaa
1h 30min/French subtitles
Adult Camp follows a group of women and men who don’t know each other as they spend a week on an organised vacation, set on an archipelago island. Nothing resembles the advertising video that attracted them, which promised a vacation that would allow everyone to find themselves. Abandoned by the organiser, the vacationers must face this unexpected situation and organise themselves. This week on the island may not fulfil the video’s promise of being “the greatest week of your life,” yet each person will come back a little changed by the experience.
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Curated by Irmeli Debarle.
Irmeli Debarle is the specialist on Finnish cinema in France. A lifelong student of literature, languages, art history and cinema, she completed a thesis on the director Teuvo Tulio in 2013. Having lived in France for almost 50 years, she has decided to promote Finnish cinema, which is still little known internationally, always guided by the same will: the desire to share. Irmeli Debarle contributes to the visibility of Finnish filmmakers by translating their works and by helping to screen their films at various festivals in France. Among her many projects is La Finlande en 3 films festival, which she has been organising every year for the last 16 years at the Reflet Médicis cinema in Paris, with the support of the Finnish Film Foundation. She translates Finnish films and works closely with filmmakers such as Aki Kaurismäki and Markku Lehmuskallio, among others.