NORTHERN TRAVELOGUES
Documentary film 58' 2019
"A beautiful and profound documentary exploration
about cultural memory and identity. Northern Travelogues is a time bridge over a century of epochal change
in the land of an ancient people."
-Antti Alanen, Film Diary
In 1917 Finnish explorer Sakari Pälsi travelled to north-eastern Siberia carrying a cinematograph and 13,000 feet of film with him. The journey birthed a unique documentary film and a travelogue.
A hundred years later director Kira Jääskeläinen returns to the Bering strait in Pälsi's footsteps. By combining old and new film footage, Pälsi's notes and the stories of the local Indigenous peoples, the film tells the story of the Chukchi and Siberian Eskimos from the days gone by till today.
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Awards
Grand Prix of Feature-length Films Competition, Golden Raven International Arctic Film Festival, Anadyr, Russia, 2019
Best Scientific Recording, Pärnu Film Festival, Pärnu, Estonia, 2019
Special Prize by the Documentary Jury, International Festival Rendezvous with Russia, Vologda, Russia, 2019
Special Prize for the Best foreign film about Russia, International Festival Rendezvous with Russia, Vologda, Russia, 2019
Special Prize by the Jury of Documentary Feature Competition, Anchorage International Film Festival, Anchorage, Alaska 2019
Photo by Joona Pettersson
Selected screenings
National Competition, Tampere Film Festival, Tampere, Finland 2019
Documentary Competition, Arctic Open Film Festival, Archangelsk, Russia, 2019
Documentary Competition, Northern Character International Film & Tv Festival, Murmansk, Russia, 2020
Documentary Competition, Festival de films Pêcheurs du Monde, Lorient, France, 2020
Visual Anthropology of the North program, Viscult Ethnographic Documentary Film Festival, Joensuu, Finland, 2019
Special screening, Skabmagovat Indigenous Film Festival, Inari, Finland, 2019
Credits
Script & Direction - Kira Jääskeläinen
Cinematography - Joona Pettersson
Editor - Mervi Junkkonen
Sound Design - Janne Jankeri
Music - Joaquin Garcia
Main title - Uno Helmersson
Production - Illume oy / Jouko Aaltonen
Support
Finnish Film Foundation
AVEK Centre for Audiovisual Culture
YLE Finnish Broadcasting company
Kone Foundation
Finnish Cultural Foundation
Developped during EDN Below Zero
Selected reviews
Photo by Joona Pettersson