{"id":20306,"date":"2025-05-26T15:24:43","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T12:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.france.fi\/culture\/le-midnight-sun-festival-fete-son-40e-anniversaire\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T09:56:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T06:56:22","slug":"the-midnight-sun-festival-celebrates-its-40th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.france.fi\/en\/culture\/the-midnight-sun-festival-celebrates-its-40th-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"The Midnight Sun Festival celebrates its 40th anniversary!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>French cinema is in the spotlight at the 40th edition of the Midnight Sun Festival, both through the films being screened and the special guests in attendance.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s festival will be a unique opportunity to meet acclaimed directors Alain Guiraudie and L\u00e9onor Serraille, as well as renowned actress Dominique Sanda.<\/p>\n<p>Alain Guiraudie\u2019s film <em>Stranger by the Lake<\/em> (2013), which was selected for the Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival, will be screened during the event.<\/p>\n<p>L\u00e9onor Serraille, winner of the Cam\u00e9ra d\u2019Or at Cannes, will also present her latest feature film, <em>Ari<\/em> (2025).<\/p>\n<p>This edition of the festival will further invite audiences to revisit timeless classics of French cinema, such as <em>The Umbrellas of Cherbourg<\/em> (1964) and <em>A Gentle Woman<\/em> (1969) by Robert Bresson, starring none other than Dominique Sanda.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets and more information are available on the <a href=\"https:\/\/msfilmfestival.fi\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">festival\u2019s official website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Come and (re)discover gems of French cinema. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20303,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Midnight Sun Festival celebrates its 40th anniversary! 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