Barbeque

Director: Jenny Jokela

Year: 2023

A visual reflection on getting out of a harmful relationship and moving on. 'Sweet Like Lemons' is a play on the saying "when life gives you lemons make lemonade", only in this case there is no lemonade to be made but the lemons still taste sweeter than what you left behind. Official Selection Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2023 Official Selection Edinburgh International Film Festival 2023

Director: Jenny Jokela

Year: 2018

Acting a fool convinced you're a queen. LIVE A LITTLE taps into the pressures and the amounts of self-control that go into being a ”good woman” in a patriarchal society by celebrating women who decide to not care. Official Selection Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2019 - Short Film Competition

Director: Tatiana Collet Apraxine

Year: 2028

You awaken on a fog-shrouded shoreline and meet Echo, a strange child with a hole in their stomach. Together you cross a lantern festival where the veil between worlds is thinnest, sail into an ocean that opens beneath you, and descend through a portal into the Underworld. The Underworld moves through different facets of grief: a rave where silhouettes dance in slow motion, indifferent to Echo's attempts to reach them; a frozen sea where giant statues crack open to release a buried memory of a lost mother; a shadow theatre where an anger monster is unleashed, reducing everything to embers. From the embers, a boat carries you into a vast darkness, where Mother appears, and they are finally reunited. You sail together to the Tree of Life, a bioluminescent, cosmic jungle. Echo begs her to return to the World of the Living, but ancestors appear and surround you. She cannot come back - the journey was never about bringing her back. Echo, revealed to be your own child self, dissolves around you as the hole fills with light.