My Mother’s Island by Kaya Pakaslahti

‘My mother’s island’ is an exploration of auto-fictive storytelling and the poetic possibilities of visual silence in feminist filmmaking. We follow Hanna (Klara Svejgaard) from a breakup on ferry between Finland and Sweden to a reunion with her mother in the Finnish archipelago. Through these intimate relationships, the film poses questions about belonging, separation and national identity.

Kaya Pakaslahti is a director and screenwriter working in fiction and hybrid film. Holding a bachelor degree in screenwriting and directing for film and television from Arcada, Helsinki and a MFA in Film from HDK-Valand (2022) she is pursuing an artistic research that concerns internet aesthetics in relation to identity technologies. She is also interested in bringing ideas of autofiction into her cinematic language. Alongside with her artistic work, Kaya works as a screenwriter in writer’s rooms for TV- series at the public broadcasting company in Finland, YLE.

Stars: Joakim Lang and Klara Svejgaard