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Director: Jalmari Helander

Cast: Onni Tommila, Jorma Tommila, Tommi Korpela, Per

Christian Ellefsen

Classification: 15

Running time: 83 minutes

RARE EXPORTS: A CHRISTMAS TALE – “This Christmas everyone will believe in Santa Claus.”

Set in beautiful and very Christmassy Finland, the film follows a young boy, Pietari and his Reindeer herding father as they discover this year the real Santa Claus is coming to town! An ill-fated expedition to drill into an ancient mountain unleashes an ancient creature that threatens to steal all the children and it is up to the resourceful Pietrie and Father to save the town from the real Santa and his ever so naughty elves!

Witness this hugely entertaining dark comedy set in the snowy landscape of Finland. Featuring a mix of influences from Spielberg to John Carpenter, great special effects and exquisite cinematography, Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale is a visually stunning 80’s style kid- friendly horror-fantasy that is destined to become the perfect Christmas cult film!

Filmy fact: Finnish Director Jalmari Helander went on from his debut feature ‘Rare exports – a Christmas Tale’ to direct Samuel Jackson in ‘Big Game’, create the action/adventure films ‘Sisu’ and is lined up to direct ‘John Rambo’, the forthcoming coming prequel to ‘First blood’!

The Critics Choice Cinema is a film programme curated by 2 local Film Experts, John Sellings and Graeme Kennedy. Graeame is an illustrator, writer, designer and film-maker with his work being shown both nationally and internationally. John works in visual effects (VFX) mostly as a Senior Compositor. His recent credits include Hamnet, Mission Impossible and The Little Mermaid.

Meet Our Critics: One of our Critics will be on hand to introduce each film and you are welcome to join us in the bar for a post screening chat about the film.