Kira Jääskeläinen

Kira Jääskeläinen was born in Warsaw into a Finnish-Polish family. She moved to Finland as a child and finished her school in Helsinki. Kira has studied classical music, Russian studies and filmmaking. She has worked in different aspects of filmmaking for companies in Denmark, Finland and Germany, as well as programming film festivals.

The idea for her full-length debut, Tagikaks – Once Were Hunters, came during her studies at Copenhagen University. Kira did fieldwork in Chukotka and was intrigued by the identity crisis many young people were facing. After finishing her MA degree, she went to study film and returned to Chukotka now with a film crew.

Barents Ecology Film Festival