Kaisa’s Enchanted Forest

Kaisa's Enchanted Forest
reż. Katja Gauriloff/Finland/2016/82 min.
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A proud member of Finland’s indigenous Skolt Sámi tribe, flmmaker Katia Gauriloff found a treasure trove of pristine 16mm footage of her grandmother Kaisa, a legendary storyteller and singer of le’udd epic ballads.

By sending around postcards all over Europe, Katia recovered these priceless film and voice recordings from the 30s-70s, shot by the Swiss writer Robert Crottet, who lived with Kaisa in the 30s, and Spanish photographer Enrique Mendez. Their poetic footage and newly created animation depicting the stories creates a poetic, moving portrait of a charismatic woman who stayed strong as WWII forced them to relocate to a part of Finland where they had to give up their rein-deer-herding way of life.

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  • projection time:
    82 min.
  • country/year:
    Finland/2016
  • director:
    Katja Gauriloff
  • pictures:
    Enrique Méndez, Heikki Färm
  • production:
    Oktober Oy
  • selected festivals and awards:
    Hot Docs Toronto 2016, DOK Leipzig 2016

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