Kira Jääskeläinen (b. 1979 Warsaw, Poland) is a Finnish-Polish
documentary film director.Jääskeläinen was born in Poland into a
family of artists, but moved to Finland at the age of five. In the
early years of the 2000s Jääskeläinen studied humanities at the
University of Copenhagen, concentrating in East European Studies and
the Russian language, and wrote her MA thesis on the material she
collected in Chukotka. Later she studied in Moscow, in the Gerasimov
Institute of Cinematography, majoring in documentary film making.
Jääskeläinen has also studied classical music and plays the
cello.Jääskeläinen's first documentary Takigaks â€" Once Were
Hunters was released in 2012. It tells about two brothers, Kolya and
Sasha, who are Siberian Yupiks and live in the village of Novoye
Chaplino in the eastern extremity of the Chukotka Peninsula. Their
community has traditionally practised whale hunting, but some of the
youth find themselves in the midst of an identity crisis, if, for some
reason, they do not find this profession appealing. The filming of
this documentary took place over five years.The film has been shown on
several film festivals and on the Finnish public YLE TV1 channel in
2014.
documentary film director.Jääskeläinen was born in Poland into a
family of artists, but moved to Finland at the age of five. In the
early years of the 2000s Jääskeläinen studied humanities at the
University of Copenhagen, concentrating in East European Studies and
the Russian language, and wrote her MA thesis on the material she
collected in Chukotka. Later she studied in Moscow, in the Gerasimov
Institute of Cinematography, majoring in documentary film making.
Jääskeläinen has also studied classical music and plays the
cello.Jääskeläinen's first documentary Takigaks â€" Once Were
Hunters was released in 2012. It tells about two brothers, Kolya and
Sasha, who are Siberian Yupiks and live in the village of Novoye
Chaplino in the eastern extremity of the Chukotka Peninsula. Their
community has traditionally practised whale hunting, but some of the
youth find themselves in the midst of an identity crisis, if, for some
reason, they do not find this profession appealing. The filming of
this documentary took place over five years.The film has been shown on
several film festivals and on the Finnish public YLE TV1 channel in
2014.
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