Attention! Kino Regina will be closed temporarily from 17 March onwards due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) situation in Finland, more info here. In the meantime, our free-of-charge streaming service Elonet offers a selection of Finnish film classics with English subtitles.
National Audiovisual Institute (KAVI) organizes regular film screenings at the Kino Regina cinema in Helsinki. Archival series cover just about everything from the earliest examples of film history to the latest noteworthy releases: classics and forgotten gems, extensive retrospectives illuminating genre history and changing times.
Film concerts and other special events such as seminars and lectures have attracted a wide following as part of KAVI’s programming. In addition to Kino Regina’s offerings KAVI’s screenings take place in nine other cities around the country.
Kino Regina’s ticket booth opens half an hour before each day’s first screening. You can also purchase tickets online whenever convenient for you. You can choose whether you want to register yourself or not at the address kauppa.kavi.fi (in Finnish only). Click on the shopping cart icon next to the film’s screening information, for instance via the Program Calender (in Finnish only).
Kino Tulio
Kino Regina’s twin theater, Kino Tulio, is a modern cinema with 57 seats. Kino Tulio is mainly aimed at professional use but it can also be rented for private screenings.
Kino Tulio. Address: Sörnäisten rantatie 25 A, 5th floor, Sörnäinen, Helsinki. Information on rental.
Winter/Spring 2020 Programme in English
Below you will find a list of the movies playing in Kino Regina that are either in English or have English subtitles. The films are organized by theme.
NB! The list is subject to change.
You can browse our screenings by date on our screening schedule and buy tickets online by following the links.
If you have any questions regarding our programming, please email esitystoiminta@kavi.fi or contact us on Facebook.
Film Heaven: Comedy
Frank Capra: Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) / Fri February 14 (16.45) & Sat February 15 (16.00)
Robert Hamer: Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) / Sat February 22 (14.00) & Sun February 23 (16.15)
Mel Brooks: The Producers (1968)
Billy Wilder: Some Like It Hot (1959)
70 mm Screenings
Todd Phillips: Joker (2019) / Fri February 7 (21.00)
David Fincher: Alien 3 (1992) / Thu February 27 (21.00) & Fri February 28 (20.30)
David Lean: Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Sing-Along! Randal Kleiser: Grease (1978) / Sat February 15 (18.30)
Jean-Jacques Annaud: The Bear (1988) / Sun February 9 (14.00)
Sing-Along
Randal Kleiser: Grease (1978) / Sat February 15 (18.30)
Rob Marshall: Chicago (2002)
Norman Jewison: Jesus Christ Superstar (1973)
Youssef Chahine
Daddy Amin (1950) (English subtitles) / Tue January 14 (20.30) & Sat January 18 (15.45)
The Blazing Sun (1953) (English subtitles) / Wed January 22 (20.00) & Sat February 8 (19.45)
Dawn of a New Day (1964) (English subtitles) / Thu February 13 (20.30) & Wed February 19 (20.50)
Cairo Station (1958) (English subtitles) / Thu February 20 (19.15) & Tue February 25 (19.00)
Alexandria… Why? (1979) (English subtitles) / Thu February 27 (16.45) & Sun March 1 (16.00)
The History of Cinema
Karel Reisz: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) / Thu February 6 (19.00)
Jan Němec: Diamonds of the Night (1964) (English subtitles) / Tue February 11 (19.00)
Satyajit Ray: The Big City (1963) (English subtitles) / Tue February 18 (19.00)
Brian De Palma: Blow Out (1981) / Tue March 3 (19.00)
Walter Salles: Central Station (1998) (English subtitles) / Tue March 10 (19.00)
Edward Yang: Taipei Story (1985) (English subtitles)
David Cronenberg: Dead Ringers (1988)
Yılmaz Güney: Hope (1970) (English subtitles)
Jean-Pierre Dikongué-Pipa: Somebody Else’s Child (1975) (English subtitles)
Federico Fellini
I Vitelloni (1953) (English subtitles) / Tue January 21 (19.00) & Sun February 9 (16.00)
Fellini’s Roma (1972) (English subtitles)
Agnès Varda’s Final Documentaries
The Gleaners and I: Two Years Later (2002) (English subtitles) / Thu January 23 (17.00) & Sun January 26 (15.45)
Cinévardaphoto (2004) (English subtitles) / Sat February 8 (17.50) & Sun February 16 (17.45)
Faces Places (2017) (English subtitles) / Tue February 25 (20.30)
Varda by Agnès (2019) (English subtitles) / Sun March 1 (18.30) & Thu March 5 (18.40)
Budd Boetticher
Ride Lonesome (1959) / Tue January 14 (19.00) & Thu January 16 (17.00)
Seven Men from Now (1956) / Wed January 15 (21.15) & Sun January 19 (15.20)
The Tall T (1957) / Tue January 22 (21.00) & Wed January 22 (18.30)
Comanche Station (1959) / Sun January 26 (19.15) & Sun February 9 (18.15)
Decision at Sundown (1957) / Tue February 11 (20.20) & Sun February 16 (19.40)
Bad Boys, Bad Boys
Michael Bay: Bad Boys (1995) / Tue January 16 (18.30)
Michael Bay: Bad Boys II (2003) / Tue January 16 (21.00)
Berlinale 70 Years: Finnish Gems
Pirjo Honkasalo: Tanjuska and the 7 Devils (1993) (English subtitles)
Monthly Double Bill
John Carpenter: The Thing (1982) / Sat January 25 (16.15)
Quentin Tarantino: The Hateful Eight (2015) / Sat January 25 (18.30)
Frank Urson: Chicago (1927)
Sing-Along! Rob Marshall: Chicago (2002)
Manoel de Oliveira: Rite of Spring (1963) (English subtitles) / Sat February 29 (14.30)
The Silent Heroines of the 1920’s
Clarence Brown: A Woman of Affairs (1928) / Fri February 7 (16.45) & Sat February 8 (16.10)
Clarence G. Badger, Josef von Sternberg: “It” (1927) / Thu February 13 (17.00) & Sun February 16 (16.15)
Raoul Walsh: Sadie Thompson (1928)
King Vidor: Show People (1928)
Loud Silents: David M. Hartford: Back to God’s Country (1919)
Loud Silents: William A. Wellman: Beggars of Life (1928)
Frank Borzage: Street Angel (1928)
Director’s Club
J-P Valkeapää: Dogs Don’t Wear Pants (2019) (English subtitles) / Wed January 15 (17.00)
Kirsikka Saari, Elli Toivoniemi, et al.: Force of Habit (2019) (English subtitles) / Wed February 12 (17.00)
Reetta Huhtanen: Gods of Molenbeek (2019) (English subtitles) / Wed March 13 (17.00)
Zaida Bergroth: Maria’s Paradise (2019) (English subtitles) / Wed April 8 (17.00)
Gulag and Film
Elem Klimov: Welcome, or No Trespassing (1964) (English subtitles) / Tue February 4 (20.45)
Vitali Kanevski: Freeze – Rise – Die Again! (1989) (English subtitles) / Sat February 8 (14.00)
Theatre in East Asian Cinema
Akira Kurosawa: The Men Who Tread on the Tiger’s Tail (1945) (English subtitles) / Fri March 13 (19.30)
Kon Ichikawa: An Actor’s Revenge (1963) (English subtitles) / Sat March 14 (14.00)
Hélène Cattet & Bruno Forzani
Amer (2009) (English subtitles) / Fri February 21 (17.00) & Thu February 27 (19.10)
The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears (2013) (English subtitles) / Fri February 21 (18.45) & Wed February 26 (21.00)
Let the Corpses Tan (2017) (English subtitles) / Fri February 21 (20.45) & Sat February 29 (19.30)
Guy Maddin
Archangel (1990) / Wed February 26 (19.20) & Tue March 3 (21.00)
Careful (1992)
Twilight of the Ice Nymphs (1997)
The Saddest Music in the World (2003)
My Winnipeg (2007)
Loud Silents: Brand Upon the Brain! (2006)
The Forbidden Room (2015)
The Green Fog (2017)
Portugal’s Novo Cinema
Manoel de Oliveira: Rite of Spring (1963) (English subtitles) / Sat February 29 (14.30) & Fri April 10 (15.00)
Paulo Rocha: The Green Years (1963) (English subtitles) / Wed March 4 (18.45) & Thu March 5 (20.50)
Paulo Rocha: Change One’s Life (1966) (English subtitles)
Fernando Lopes: A Bee in the Rain (1972) (English subtitles)
David Fincher
Alien 3 (1992) / Thu February 27 (21.00) & Fri February 28 (20.30)
The Game (1997) / Wed March 4 (20.30) & Fri March 6 (21.10)
Seven (1995) / Thu March 12 (18.40)
Fight Club (1999)
Panic Room (2002)
Zodiac (2007)
The Social Network (2010)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)
Gone Girl (2014)
Incredible Italy and Finland
Enzo Barboni: A Man of the East (1972) / Wed February 5 (20.30)
Mikhail Kalatozov
Soy Cuba (1964) (English subtitles)
Nature Excursion
Heikki Partanen: Pessi and Illusia (1983) (English subtitles) / Sun January 26 (14.00)
Jean-Jacques Annaud: The Bear (1988) / Sun February 9 (14.00)