The Making of Faruza gallery

Director Katariina Lillqvist is now shooting her greatly awaited new animation, Faruza. As most of her works, Faruza will definitely encourage heatful debates in many societies despite of it´s fairytale-like, gentle facade. Faruza is a medieval story of an isolated island kingdom in the Red Sea, where the rulers abide by a strict law: the women must wear a copper mask from the day they turn twelve until the day they die. The law makes the lives of the island's fishing families difficult in many ways: The families can afford the mask only after several years of saving, and because they are weighed down by the heavy copper, the women can't take part in fishing on the stormy sea.