Works In Progress

• Katariina Lillqvist's films on spotlight at Hiroshima Animated Film Festival 2008

  This year, Hiroshima Animated Film Festival has a special program about Finnish animation. 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.