Espoo Ciné International Film Festival is an annual event held in

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, in August. The festival was established in 1990 and it has since grown to be one of Finland's leading film festivals, screening about 100 feature films each year in addition to short films. Espoo Ciné focuses on European cinema and previously there have been series centering on French and Latin cinema, for example. Espoo Ciné also presents a Pink Zone series showing

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films as well as one or more outdoor screenings in

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, Espoo. As a member of

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Espoo Ciné has awarded a Méliès d'Argent prize for best European fantasy film since 1999.

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