Section: Homeland | Domownja | Domizna

JE’VIDA

JE’VIDA

Katja Gauriloff
FI, 2023, 103 Min

Self-denial as a form of self-protection. This Sami film depicts a painful chapter of indigenous history, one that befell the Sorbs in a similar manner. Iida used to be called Je'vida. As a child, she was sent to a Finnish boarding school where she was forbidden to speak Sami. Now she attempts to come to terms with her past.

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Performance

2024-11-06 | 13:00
Stadthalle
2024-11-10 | 10:00
Kammerbühne

Iida waits for her niece Sanna in front of a high-rise building. They have never seen each other before. Together, they drive to the lake-side house that they have inherited. It is the place where Iida and her now-deceased sister grew up. While rummaging through the estate, they stumble across items that make Sanna suspect the existence of a family secret. Iida, however, wants nothing more than to clear out the house as quickly as possible and sell it on. Only in the rising smoke of the inherited objects, now ablaze, does Iida's past slowly come to light.

06.11.2024 | 13:00 | Stadhalle (original version with English subtitles + simultaneous translation into German)

10.11.2024 | 10:00 | Kammerbühne (original version with English subtitles + simultaneous translation into German)

 

Drehbuch
Katja Gauriloff, Niillas Holmberg
Kamera
Tuomo Hutri
Ton
Jukka Nurmela, Timo Peltola
Schnitt
Timo Peltola
Ausstattung
Antti Nikkinen
Musik
Lau Nau
Darsteller
Agafia Niemenmaa (Je’vida as a child) Heidi Juliana Gauriloff (Je’vida as an adult) Sanna-Kaisa
Palo (Iida)
Seidi Haarla (Sanna)
Erkki Gauriloff (grandfather)
Matleena Fofonoff (grandmother)
Produzent
Joonas Berghäll, Satu Majava, Anna Nuru
Produktion
Oktober Oy
Katja Gauriloff

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.

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