NOVEMBER 2024
YLE TV1 broadcasts Northern Travelogues on Sunday November 17th at 11.15. The film will also be available on YLE Areena.
OCTOBER 2024
Kira receives a travel grant from the Finnish Cultural Foundation for her work with the documentary film Qimmeq
MAY 2024
Qimmeq documentary film receives support from the Finnish-Danish Cultural Foundation
MARCH 2024
Qimmeq documentary film receives development support from the Finnish Film Foundation.
NOVEMBER 2023
Northern Travelogues will be shown on YLE TV1 on Sunday November 26th at 11.45. The film will also be available on YLE Areena during 7 days.
OCTOBER 2023
Northern Travelogues will be shown as part of the Aleksanteri Conference 2023 organised by the University of Helsinki 25.-27.10.2023. This year's theme is "Decolonizing Space in the Global East".
SEPTEMBER 2023
Northern Travelogues will be shown at Kratovo International Festival of Ethnological Documentary Films on Thursday September 28th. The festival was established in 2012 and is organised by the Macedonian Ethnological Society in Skopje and the City Museum of Kratovo.
AUGUST 2023
The soundtrack for Northern Travelogues is now available on Spotify. The wonderful music was created by composer and orchestrator Joaquin Garcia.
MAY 2023
Northern Travelogues will be screened at Universität Hamburg in Germany on Tuesday May the 30th. The screening is part of the Ethnological cinema series.
NOVEMBER 2022
Northern Travelogues will be screened on Friday November the 25th as the opening film of the Eyes and Lenses Ethnographic Review in Warsaw.
APRIL 2022
Northern Travelogues will be screened on Saturday April the 9th at the Astro Theatre in Iqaluit as part of the favourites from Nunavut International Film Festival.
MARCH 2022
Northern Travelogues has been selected for German International Ethnographic Film Festival in Göttingen 26.-29.5.2022. The festival was founded in 1998 and acts as a successful forum for filmmakers and anthropologists from around the world.
FEBRUARY 2022
Northern Travelogues will have its Canadian premiere at the Nunavut International Film Festival 21.-27.2.2022. The festival program will be available at www.taku.tv
JANUARY 2022
The Cello documentary project is part of DocPoint Finest Market during the film festival in Helsinki 31.1.-13.2.2022
DECEMBER 2021
The Cello documentary project receives a second development grant from the Finnish Film Foundation. The film is produced by Oona Saari and Jouko Aaltonen from Illume Oy.
Northern Travelogues screening at Verdensteatret in Tromsø on December 2nd. The screening is part of the Polar Vin og Viten-series and is arranged in cooperation with the Polar Museum of Tromsø.
NOVEMBER 2021
Northern Travelogues screening at the Arctic Film Fest in Grand Marais, Minnesota 20.-21.11.
OCTOBER 2021
Northern Travelogues will be shown as part of the official competition at Mostra Internacional de Cinema Documental ‘Mares da Fin do Mundo’ in Outes, Spain 29.10.-1.11.2021
AUGUST 2021
The Cello documentary film (in development) receives Documentary Association of Europe's Development Support Prize at the Baltic Sea Docs Forum in Riga.
JULY 2021
The Cello documentary film (in development) is among 18 film projects selected for the 25th edition of Baltic Sea Docs Financing Forum held in Riga and online in September.
JUNE 2021
Northern Travelogues will be shown as part of EthnoKino Film Festival in Bern 17.-20.6.2021. On Sunday 20th Kira will participate in a panel discussion about working with archives in film organised in cooperation with Museum Cerny Bern and Lichtspiel / Kinemathek Bern.
MAY 2021
The Cello documentary project (in development) is among six film projects selected for the DocCelerator Story workshop held online in June 2021.
APRIL 2021
The Cello documentary project (in development) is among twelve film projects selected for the Nordisk Panorama Doc Forward Workshop 2021.
MARCH 2021
Northern Travelogues will have its French premiere at the Festival de films "Pêcheurs du Monde" 22.3.- 5.4.2021. The festival's 13th edition will be online. Northern Travelogues will be shown in the main competition category.
NOVEMBER 2020
Northern Travelogues has been selected for Documentary Competition at the 12th Northern Character International Film Festival held in Murmansk and Online 18.-22.11.2020.
OCTOBER 2020
Kira will be in the jury for scientific docs during Pärnu International Film Festival in Estonia 17-25.10.2020. The festival is the oldest of its kind in the Baltic Countries and is about to happen for the 34th time in 2020. Last year Northern Travelogues won the prize for the Best Scientific Documentary.
JULY 2020
Northern Travelogues will be shown in Estonia as part of Pärnu Film Festival's Summer Retrospective. The screening will be on July 23rd at 18.00. in Heimtali Museum. You are welcome!
The Cello documentary project receives a development grant from the Finnish Film Foundation. The film will be produced by Jouko Aaltonen and Illume Oy.
APRIL 2020
YLE Finnish Broadcasting Company screens Northern Travelogues on Tuesday 14th of April at 15.40.
FEBRUARY 2020
Finnish Film Foundation lists Northern Travelogues as one of the Finnish documentaries that received most international festival prizes in 2019.
JANUARY 2020
Knud Rasmussen Society in Copenhagen screens Northern Travelogues and Sakari Pälsi's Travelling in the Arctic as part of their focus on the Bering Strait cultures. The screening will be on February 2nd in Kraemers hus.
DECEMBER 2019
Helsingin Sanomat writes about Northern Travelogues and Kira's expeditions to Chukotka.
TV-premiere of Northern Travelogues will be on Finnish Broadcasting Company's YLE Teema on December 17th with reruns on December 19th and December 25th.
Special mention by the jury to Northern Travelogues at the Anchorage International Film Festival in Alaska 5.-14.12.2019.
NOVEMBER 2019
Two special prizes for Northern Travelogues at the 10th International Film Festival Rendezvous with Russia in Vologda 20.-25.11.2019.
OCTOBER 2019
Viscult Ethnographic Film Festival in Joensuu shows Northern Travelogues as part of the Visual Anthropology of the North program.
Northern Travelogues has been selected for the Arctic Open International Film Festival in Arkhangelsk 4.- 8. December!
Northern Travelogues screening at Arthouse Cinema Niagara in Tampere 16.10.2019
Northern Travelogues screening at Cinema Orion in Helsinki 5.10.2019
SEPTEMBER 2019
Screenings of Northern Travelogues at the Northern Character: Green Screen Film Festival in Kirkenes (Norway) and Nikkel (Russia).
AUGUST 2019
Northern Travelogues screening at Portaan Nahkurinverstas Summer Festival on Saturday August 24th 15.00. More special screenings coming around Finland during the autumn.
JULY 2019
Põhjala reisikirjad (Northern Travelogues in Estonian) to be screened in Esna on July 13th as part of Pärnu Film Festival's Estonian tour.
JUNE 2019
Northern Travelogues rewarded for Best Scientific Documentary at XXXIII Pärnu Film Festival in Estonia!
MAY 2019
GRAND PRIX of International Feature-Length Competition at Golden Raven International Arctic Film Festival in Chukotka goes to Northern Travelogues!
MARCH 2019
Filmoholic magazine writes about Northern Travelogues.
FEBRUARY 2019
Northern Travelogues has been selected for National Competition at Tampere Film Festival 6.-10.3.2019!
JANUARY 2019
Prepremiere of Northern Travelogues will be at the Skabmagovat Indigenous Film Festival in Inari 24.-28.1.2019.
JULY 2018
Tagikaks - Once Were Hunters broadcasted on YLE Teema on July 14th 15.00 and July 16th at 12.00. The documentary will also be available on YLE Areena Internet platform.
JULY 2017
The Chukotka based newspaper Krajny Sever writes about our expedition in the footsteps of Sakari Pälsi.
FEBRUARY 2017
Tagikaks - Once Were Hunters to have a rerun on Finnish Broadcasting Company's YLE1 on February 20th at 23.55. The documentary will also be available on YLE Areena Internet platform.
DECEMBER 2016
Kira's new documentary film Northern Travelogues has been selected for the Suomi Finland 100 program, when Finland celebrates its 100 years of independence.
APRIL 2016
Kira's documentary Tagikaks - Once Were Hunters will be part of the First Nations & Indigenous Geographies course at University of Northern British Columbia. The course is taught by Professor Gail Fondahl.
MARCH 2016
Kira will be in the national competition jury during Tampere Film Festival 8.-13.3.2016
JANUARY 2016
Kira's new film project Northern Travelogues has been selected for EDN's Below Zero workshop and pitching during Tromsø International Film Festival 20.-23.1.2016
JUNE 2015
Tagikaks Once Were Hunters to be broadcasted on Finnish YLE Teema on June 22nd
DECEMBER 2014
Tagikaks - Once Were Hunters will have the Norwegian TV-premiere on NRK December 3rd 2014
MARCH 2014
Hufvudstadsbladet's review about Tagikaks - Once Were Hunters
FEBRUARY 2014
28.2.2014 Helsingin Sanomat writes about Tagikaks - Once Were Hunters
JULY 2013
Special Prize by the Jury goes to Tagikaks - Once Were Hunters at SiciliAmbiente - Documentary Film Festival 22.7.2013
JUNE 2013
Tagikaks - Once Were Hunters has been selected for the 8th Nepal International Indigenous Film Festival in Kathmandu.
MARCH 2013
Ilona Laurikainen interviewed Kira about her work for YLE Radio 1