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 Turns out the withdrawn and distrusting aunt had been a victim of the assimilation policies and the niece has to make a big decision.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.
Country : Year : 2023 Length : 99 minutes Production : Oktober Oy Director : Katja Gauriloff Screenplay : Katja Gauriloff
Agafia Niemenmaa, Heidi Juliana Gauriloff, Sanna-Kaisa Palo, Seidi Haarla, Erkki Gauriloff, Matleena Fofonoff
Film director, Katja Gauriloff 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 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.
