The Midnight Sun Film Festival was founded in 1986 by Finnish filmmakers, the Kaurismäki brothers, in the Municipality of Sodankylä. The village of Sodankylä is located in the heart of Finnish Lapland, some 120 kilometers above the Arctic Circle, where the sun doesn't set at all in the summertime.
LFS graduate, Chairman and director Mike Leigh is one of four distinguished guests of this year's Midnight Sun Film Festival where there will be a retrospective of his films and career to date. Also included in the list of esteemed international filmmakers in Sodankylä this summer are Christian Petzold (Germany), Nils Malmros (Denmark) and Whit Stillman (USA).