Works In Progress

• 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. Read more! and see the Making of Faruza photogallery!
  
  
• "2 ½ Bodies" - feature animation with cult potential was presented at Cartoon Movie (Lyon). The award-winning director Tatu Pohjavirta is writing a feature film script called "2 ½ Bodies". This puppetanimation is meant for adult audience. The story tells about a young street artist Oskar, who has to solve his relation to violence in order to love. He falls in love with the wrong girl, causes accidental death of a detective and then meets his hated father in the prison. "2 ½ Bodies" is now at development phase, a trailer (45 sec.), the first sketches of the main characters and the second version of the script are ready. The project has got development money from the Finnish Film Foundation and the National council of Cinema. Director Tatu Pohjavirta and producer Jyrki Kaipainen presented the project at MIFA (Annecy 9. - 11.6.2010), where they found one East European co-production studio and had several interesting conversations with other possible partners. Producer Kaipainen will attend the Cartoon Feature in Munich (November 22. - 24.) See the trailer of "2 ½ Bodies" (aka. Split).
  
  
• "Edith" is ready. The drawn 2D animation "Edith" (7 min.) got ready in the beginning of June 2010. The film is directed by Taru Anttila. Commissioning editor is YLE TV1 Co-productions. CLICK IMAGES!
  
  

• Camera Cagliostro and director Katariina Lillqvist are developing a feature animation about the great novel "The Master and Margarita" by Russian author Mikhail Bulgakov. The first version of the script will be ready end of the year 2010.
  
  
• The documentary "Under Our Sky" (dir. Heidi Vilkman, 28 min.) got ready in the beginning of the year 2010 and was broadcasted in the national television on February. "Under Our Sky" is an insight picture about the Thai berry pickers who fly every year to Finland to pick cloud- and blueberries.
  
  
• TV-fiction film "Siinä näkijä missä tekijä" (2 x 60 min, dir. Kari Paljakka) was shot in Tampere during 2009 - 2010. The film got ready on November 2010. It is based on Hannu Salama´s awarded novel and it tells about an underground movement in Tampere during the Second World War. Premiere will be held during the Tampere film festival 2011.
  
  
• Katariina Lillqvist´s films and Camera Cagliostro´s puppet- and set exhibition took part in the "In Praise of Shadows" -exhibition, which was held in three Modern Art Museums (Dublin , Istanbul, Athens) in 2009. The curator of the exhibition was Paolo Colombo, who has worked as intendent of National Gallery of Modern Art in Rome.
  
  
• * Katariina Lillqvist's films on spotlight at Hiroshima Animated Film Festival. Hiroshima Animated Film Festival had a special program about Finnish animation in 2008. At the festival, there will be a whole program slot dedicated to Katariina's films. The films include: ”Far away from Ural” (2008), ”The Country Doctor” (1996), ”Maiden and the Soldier” (1995) and ”Chamberstork” (1993). In addition, Tommi Juutilainen's animation ”The Anchor” (2007) will be seen on the festival also. Katariina and producer Jyrki Kaipainen were invited to participate in the festival.
  
  
• The documentary ”This Country Was Not Mine” (directed by Katariina Lillqvist) is a 60-minute movie about the history, culture and the modern day of the Finnish Roma people. Premiere 3.9.2008 in Helsinki. Read more!
  
  
• Camera Cagliostro´s latest puppet animation "Far away from Ural" (dir. Katariina Lillqvist, 26 min.) has aroused a huge cultural discussion in Finland.

  The animation tells about the cruel Finnish Civil war (1918) where fellow citizens were slaughtered without any trial. What is more scandalous, the film hints that the holy man of Finnish history - one of the responsibles in the war - Marshal C.G. Mannerheim was possibly gay. The reactions show that the wounds of the war are still there. The director’s privacy has been threatened.

• Some better news. Three Cagliostro´s animation films were chosen to the Tampere International Shortfilmfestival competition! The films are: the love and war story "Far away from Ural" by Katariina Lillqvist, the hilarious and strange drawn animation "The Anchor" by Tommi Juutilainen (8´) and educationally incorrect flash-animation "Overtime" (9´) by Tatu Pohjavirta and Mark Ståhle.

• “The Anchor” got ready! Brilliant sailor-story "The Anchor (7´, drawn animation)” is directed by Tommi Juutilainen. “The Anchor” is one of the films that were chosen to the “Shorts- project” by YLE, Finnish Film Foundation and AVEK. “The Anchor” tells a very strait forward story about seamen and their captain. On a lonely ship one sailor looses his head and the rest of the guys try to find out what happened and comfort each other. The premiere of the film will be at the Tampere Short film festival on 9th of March 2007. See the pictures!
   
• "Animal" , a puppet animation (directed by Tatu Pohjavirta and produced by Camera Cagliostro) has won several international prices, like at the Premiers Plans Festival in Angers (20.-29.1.06), in France two prices in the short film category: the “Prix du public” and the price for the best music, which is made by Alamaailman Vasarat. The film also won the Special Price et the International Short Filmfestival in Tampere 2006 and Special Mention in Hamburg Filmfestival.