Feelings and stuff is shown in the San Joaquin film festival in USA between may 14 to 23.
20.5.09
San Joaquin film festival
Feelings and stuff is shown in the San Joaquin film festival in USA between may 14 to 23.
Aubagne film festival in France
"Feelings and Stuff" was shown in Festival international du film d´Aubagne in France in march.
29.12.08
Slamdance!!!
"Feelings and Stuff" is chosen to Slamdance Film Festival. Joy Saez, Film programmer of the festival, writes: "Feelings and Stuff is a capricious story regarding relationships and the considerable effects our childhood experiences have on our relationships as adults. Samuli Valkama displays a magnificent balance of comedy, drama and romance in this sweet film."
The Slamdance film festival takes place each year in Utah at the same time as the Sundance Film Festival, competing with Sundance to provide what its supporters consider a truer representation of independent film-making. It champions beginning directors with limited budgets. Festival discoveries have included directors such as Christopher Nolan (Memento), Marc Forster (Monster's ball) and Jared Hess (Napoleon Dynamite).
a blog writing about Feelings and Stuff
A French guy called Galanga writes very nicely about Feelings and Stuff in his blog. "Samuli Valkama is a film director, by now he has made a few ads and music stuff, and two short movies, both absolutely magic, incredble, I don't know how to say how much I like those movies!!!" -- Thank you very much!
Heart of Gold film festival
Australian film festival "Heart of Gold" has chosen Feelings and stuff to to their program. Heart of Gold festival website states that "Film is one of the major ways our stories, values and traditions are passed down. The festival exists to encourage the telling of stories that give us hope and make us laugh."
Have look at the festival website >> here
15.10.08
Kettupäivät
"Feelings and Stuff", jonka suomenkielinen nimi on "Tunteet jne." esitään 5.-8. marraskuuta pidettävillä Kettupäivillä! Festivaali järjestetään tänä vuonna jo 25. kerran, joten on aika juhlia. Mukana on perinteiset sarjat alle tunninmittaisille dokumentti- ja fiktioelokuville, parhaalle alle 3 minuuttiselle sekä parhaalle kokeelliselle elokuvalle.
In English: The Kettupäivät - Finnish Short and Documentary Film Festival in Helsinki, Finland will show "Feelings and Stuff". The Festival is held between 5 - 8. of November 2008.
St. Louis international film festival
Feelings and Stuff is selected to St. Louis international film festival held between november 13-23, 2008. SLIFF is one of the largest and highest-profile international film festivals in the Midwest and is now on it's 17th year!
9.9.08
International Short Film Festival Detmold Germany
The international short film festival Detmold, 2-5th of October 2008, will be screening the best short films from around the universe! Or that´s what they promise - and "Feelings and Stuff" is in the official selection. So sounds good!
"Les Sentiments..." on ARTE, France
"Feelings and Stuff" will be shown on ARTE wednesday 10th of september 00.30 in the Court-Circuit program. In french the name is "Les Sentiments..." And the description in french is: "Daniel rencontre Iris à la piscine, sur le plongeoir de 10 mètres. Bien qu'il soit sujet au vertige, son couer fait un bond..." The rebroadcast will be 30th of september at 16.30.
8.9.08
Santa Monica International Film Festival
The Santa Monica International Film Festival is going to screen 22 films from around the world in this years festival. Countries represented in this years festival include Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, United Kingdom and USA. And among these films is also "Feelings and Stuff", which is selected to the international competition!
3.9.08
Feelings and Stuff in Variety
Feelings and Stuff is mentioned in the film business bible, Variety, in an article about the Feel Good Film Festival. While describing the festival the article states "Some 53 films are slated so far, with typical festival hallmarks such as navel-gazing and family dysfunction replaced by warm-fuzzy titles such as Angels in the hood, Girls of Summer and Feelings and Stuff (!!!).
Grand Prix at the Nevada City Film Festival!!!
"Feelings and Stuff" is selected as the best short film of the Nevada City International Film Festival, California, USA! The Festival director Jason Graham stated: "'Feelings and Stuff' was selected by our 2008 NCFF jury as the best short film in this years festival! Thank you for making a wonderful film. Everyone here absolutely loved it."
"Gefühle und So" on ZDF, Germany
"Feelings and Stuff" will be shown on ZDF TV-channel in Germany 10th of September 2008. As it is German TV, we have dubbed the film in German language! And it has a deutsch title also: "Gefuehle und so". The film is part of a TV show called Kurzfilmmagazin (by clicking this link you will be directed to the ZDF site where there´s more information.) If i have the right information the programme starts after midnight at 00.30, which is pretty late, but i guess the short film shows never get the exact prime time slots.
Chicago International Reel Shorts Festival
"Feelings and Stuff" is selected to Chicago international Reel shorts festival held between september 11th and 14th!
A Bootleg!
While googling to find news about "Feelings" I found a site called www.Movies4wholesale.com who are selling a DVD of 'Feelings and Stuff'! For the cost of 4 dollars! That means it's a bootleg, since there's not any official DVD release available yet. But that's actually quite flattering since it means that somebody has liked the film enough to think that it might be a good business to try sell it. So thank you for the compliment!
31.7.08
Feelings in Switzerland
Good feelings from Berne, Switzerland! Shnit Shortfilmfestival (October 8-12, 2008) has invited "Feelings and Stuff" in the international Competition. Shnit describes itself as "a young and vibrant festival, which has quickly established itself among Europe's most innovative platform for short films." Sounds good.
Alright Love in Minimovie webchannel
My earlier short film "Alright Love", which won the Berlin Today Award 2005 in the Berlin International Film Festival has now been published in Minimovie web TV-channel. You can watch the film here: >> Alright Love (2005)Synopsis of Alright Love:
Boy meets Girl in the escalator of a Berlin Metro Station. The Boy decides to give love a chance and runs after the girl but she is nowhere to be found. Then the city of Berlin starts giving him signs where to go. >> Alright Love official webpage
15.7.08
Hermosa Shorts
"Feelings and Stuff" is selected to Hermosa Shorts, which is a "festival of short films and workshops on independent filmmaking. Rocking parties and hot summer nights" held at the Hermosa Playhouse at Hermosa Beach, California!
Nevada City Film Festival
"Feelings and Stuff" is selected to 8th annual Nevada City Film Festival! The Organizers tell that in 2007 every screening in the festival was sold out, and they expect the same this year - "so book your seats!" And also Mike Mills (Thumbsucker) will be present in the festival and a there will be a showcase of his outstanding work.
Feel good Film Festival
"Feelings and Stuff" is invited to the Feel Good Film festival held august 22 through august 24, at Hollywoods Egyptian theatre!
16.6.08
Feelings in the IMDB
"Feelings and Stuff" is now listed in the Internet Movie Database - there you can give a star rating for the film. So go there and cast your vote!
29.5.08
Feelings and Stuff is In the Palace
Feelings and Stuff is selected for the official competition in "In the Palace - International short film festival" in Balchik, Bulgaria. The Festival is one of the most prestigious and recognized film festivals on the Balkans. The festival will take place during the week from June 23 to june 30. The interesting name of the festival comes from the palace where the festival is held and which was the former summer residence of the Romanian Queen in the beginning of the 20th century!
28.5.08
Cannes, Cannes, Cannes
After five days of festival frenzy I started to feel a little bit on a low energy. I wasn't even so interested anymore about seeing Clint Eastwood or Angelina Jolie walking somewhere close by... Anyhow the festival was inspiring and thought provoking - but after seeing quite many films the question arises: does every film really have to be about so dark subject matters? - well, maybe it's the sign of the times - or at least this year was.
From the many good films I saw during the festival the "Involuntary" by Ruben Östlund stood out. It was somehow very true and very funny at the same time. I did have some trouble understanding the message of the film - but maybe that is not always so important. Also "Cloud 9" by Andreas Dresen was a beautiful film about elderly people in love. Absolutely great actors!
>>Link: "Involuntary" in Screen Daily
>>Link: "Cloud 9" in Variety
10.4.08
Cannes film festival Short film corner
"Feelings and Stuff" will be shown in Cannes film festival, in Short Film Corner (www.shortfilmcorner.com). I will be also heading there between 16.–21st of May. The Cannes film festival itself takes place between 14–25th of may.
Feelings and Stuff in Lithuania
Feelings and Stuff is selected to Vilnius Film Shorts festival in Lithuania between april 10-13.
28.2.08
Suomen ensi-ilta / The Finnish Premiere
Kuvia Suomen ensi-illasta 27.2. Kino Andorrassa. / Some pictures from the Finnish premiere.
12.2.08
FEELINGS and STUFF poster
FEELINGS and STUFF official poster. In the image is Anna Voy Kunith who plays the main part of Iris. The Photograph of Anna was taking by Jörg Gruber (who was also the DoP of the film but takes also beautiful still photos) and the design was by me, Samuli Valkama.
13.1.08
FEELINGS and STUFF trailer
Watch the trailer (40 sec.) for FEELINGS and STUFF. The music from the soundtrack of the film is composed by Eike Hosenfeld and Moritz Denis. The song is called "La Belle-Soeur", a single released by Salon Mondial.
10.1.08
Premiere in Kino Babylon, Berlin
The team premiere held at the beautiful Kino Babylon in Berlin Mitte was a success. The enormous screen, the large audience and the strange pink drinks at the after party resulted in an enjoyable evening. (photos: Teriina Lindblom)
30.12.07
Return to Berlin
The Berlin Today Award website wrote about the film: "in 2007 the Finnish filmmaker Samuli Valkama, winner of the Berlin Today Award 2005 and several other international prizes for his poetic love story "Alright Love", returned to Berlin to shoot his new short film "Feelings and stuff" comedy about feelings and their sometimes unexpected manifestations..." - Read the whole article here: www.berlintoday.de
(in the photo: The team behind Alright Love, Samuli Valkama, Linda Ky and Roman Sorger)
