Strengin Puutarhassa
Arto Halonen:
Strengin Puutarhassa (Finland, 2009)
64 min.
Concert film where Finnish musicians performs Pekka Streng's songs at Tavastia club.
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ARTO HALONEN
Arto Halonen has directed numerous films, including the documentary films Pavlov's Dogs, Conquistadors of Cuba, The Tank Man, The Star's Caravan, A Dreamer and the Dreamtribe and Karmapa – Two Ways of Divinity. In 2005 the Minister of Culture in Finland awarded Arto Halonen the Finland Prize, the highest annual prize in the arts given by the Ministry of Culture and the state.
Among other important prizes, he has received the Humanitarian Award of the European Union in 1998, and in 2008 the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival honoured him as one of the most important documentary makers of his generation. Halonen is also the founder and the first festival director of the DocPoint - Helsinki Documentary Film Festival.
