“Diving is like poetry, each movement flowing into the next.”
The Diver is a hymn to diving and the aesthetics of movement. It is a dreamlike collage of movement, music and narration honouring the most beautiful sport there is. Helge Wasenius (b. 1927), The Grand Old Man of divers, is the principal character in the film, a colourful daredevil of the sport.
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P.V. Lehtinen Director · Jyri Hakala Cinematographer
United States release February 8, 2002 · Produced in Finland · Original title Hyppääjä
Production
Cineparadiso
Production
Finland
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Languages
Original title
Hyppääjä
Original language
Finnish
Release dates
Finland · January 25, 2001
TV · YLE TV1
United States · February 8, 2002
Premiere · Portland International Film Festival
United States
March 21, 2003 · Premiere · Chicago International Doc Film Festival
Australia
January 4, 2002 · Premiere · Flickerfestival
September 27, 2003 · Premiere · The First And The Last - Experimental International Film Festival
Austria
November 29, 2001 · Premiere · Nordlichter Filmfestival
Belgium
April 5, 2002 · Premiere · Night of Shorts - Provice De Hainaut
November 18, 2003 · Premiere · Filmfestival Antwerpen
Brazil
November 29, 2001 · Premiere · Rio De Janeiro International Short Film Festival
Canada
June 6, 2001 · Premiere · Toronto Worldwide Short Film Festival
October 11, 2001 · Premiere · Montréal International Festival Of New Cinema and New Media
Czechia
October 27, 2002 · Premiere · Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival
Denmark
August 13, 2001 · Premiere · Odense Film Festival
September 18, 2001 · Premiere · Nordisk Panorama
Finland
March 7, 2001 · Premiere · Tampere Film Festival
June 13, 2001 · Premiere · Sodankylä Midsummer Film Festival
August 16, 2001 · Premiere · Blue Sea Film Festival
August 21, 2001 · Premiere · Espoo Cine International Film Festival
November 15, 2001 · Premiere · Nordic Glory Festival
January 16, 2003 · Premiere · Docpoint - Helsinki International Documentary Film Festival
March 20, 2005 · TV · Yle TV1
France
November 9, 2001 · Premiere · Festival International Du Film D'amiens
November 10, 2001 · Premiere · Festival Européen Du Film Court De Brest
January 30, 2004 · Premiere · Festival Du Court Métrage Clermont-Ferrand
Germany
June 2, 2001 · Premiere · Hamburg Short Film Festival
November 1, 2001 · Premiere · Nordische Filmtage Lübeck
November 16, 2001 · Premiere · Regensburg Short Film Week
April 4, 2002 · Premiere · International Grenzland-Filmtage
Greece
September 16, 2001 · Premiere · International Short Film Festival In Drama
Iran
October 23, 2001 · Premiere · IYCS - Iranian Young Cinema Society
Ireland
October 7, 2001 · Premiere · Cork Film Festival
Italy
October 31, 2001 · Premiere · Corto Imola International Film Festival
July 6, 2002 · Premiere · Maremetraggio International Short Film Festival
July 7, 2002 · Premiere · International Short Film Festival of Montecatini
November 11, 2002 · Premiere · International Sportfilmfestival Rassegna Citta Di Palermo
August 6, 2003 · Premiere · Locarno International Film Festival
October 27, 2006 · Premiere · Milan International FICTS Festival Sport Movies & TV
Lithuania
September 15, 2002 · Premiere · The Finnish Film Week - Vilnius
Mexico
October 30, 2002 · Premiere · Encuentro Internacional De Cine Y Video Documental
Netherlands
November 8, 2001 · Premiere · Shorts! International Short Film Festival
November 22, 2001 · Premiere · International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam IDFA
New Zealand
May 9, 2002 · Premiere · EU Short Film Week
North Macedonia
March 15, 2002 · Premiere · Skopje International Film Festival
Norway
April 25, 2002 · Premiere · Norwegian Documentary Film Festival
June 25, 2002 · Premiere · Festspillene i Nord-Norge
Poland
May 24, 2002 · Premiere · Cracow Film Festival
Portugal
July 3, 2001 · Premiere · International Short Film Festival Vila Do Conde
Spain
June 10, 2001 · Premiere · Festival Cine De Huesca
Sweden
February 2, 2001 · Premiere · Göteborg Film Festival
October 24, 2001 · Premiere · Uppsala International Short Film Festival
Switzerland
April 22, 2002 · Premiere · Visions Du Réel
United Kingdom
November 7, 2001 · Premiere · London Film Festival
November 14, 2001 · Premiere · Brief Encounters
May 10, 2002 · Premiere · Shortomatic
July 1, 2006 · Limited theatrical · Future Shorts Cinema (July programme)
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