Je’vida
(Directors' Week)
Katja Gauriloff
An aunt and her niece who’ve never met before drive to Lapland to empty a house they’ve inherited. Turns out the withdrawn and distrusting aunt had been a victim of the assimilation policies and the niece has to make a big decision. By taking interest in each other they find value in themselves and their roots.
⭐ The June 26 screening will be followed by a Q&A session with director Katja Gauriloff ⭐
STARRING
Agafia Niemenmaa
Heidi Juliana Gauriloff
Sanna-Kaisa Palo
Seidi Haarla
Erkki Gauriloff
Matleena Fofonoff
WRITER
Katja Gauriloff, Niillas Holmberg
DIRECTOR
Katja Gauriloff
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Tuomo Hutri
SOUND
Jukka Nurmela
Timo Peltola
EDITING
Timo Peltola
PRODUCTION
Oktober Oy
DISTRIBUTION
SALES
The Yellow Affair
Katja Gauriloff
Award-winning film director Katja Gauriloff (born 6 December 1972) is well-known for her influential films. Her films have been screened and awarded at various festivals around the world.
Canned Dreams and Kaisa’s Enchanted Forest have been both part of the Berlinale festival,Kaisa’s Enchanted Forest opened the Berlinale NATIVe section in 2017.
Katja Gauriloff has been awarded at the Finnish National Film Awards (Jussi) for the best documentary film in 2016. Her first feature fiction was Baby Jane (2019). Je’vida is the first feature film in the Skolt Sámi language in history. Gauriloff lives and works in Rovaniemi, Northern Finland.
FILMOGRAPHY
2003: The Last Day of His Life
2004: Pei’vv paast
2011: Canned Dreams
2016: Kaisa’s Enchanted Forest
2019: Baby Jane