This year’s programme includes the world’s first 3D documentary Cave of Forgotten Dreams, directed by Werner Herzog, as well as Jennifer Fox’s My Reincarnation and the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam winner Planet of Snail.
The festival opens with a tour of short films, A Wall is a Screen, during which documentaries will be projected onto the walls and roofs of buildings in central Helsinki.
On Thursday, tickets go on sale for the third DocPoint Tallinn. Its programme includes a selection of fresh Finnish documentaries and international successes in the Estonian capital, just a couple of hours south of Helsinki by ship.