Sweet Like Lemons

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: Jenny Jokela

Year: 2017

BARBEQUE is the visceral journey about coping with post-traumatic stress disorder. The film visualises feelings and experiences that might be too difficult or painful to put into words and illustrates the circular process of coping. Official Selection Annecy Film Festival 2018 - Graduation Films Competition - Winner, Cristal Award for Best Graduation Film

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.