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Finnish TIFF Title ‘JE’VIDA’ Lands International Sales Deal

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EXCLUSIVE: Helsinki-based sales company The Yellow Affair has acquired world sales rights to the TIFF Centrepiece title JE’VIDA, a Sámi language historical drama by Finnish filmmaker Katja Gauriloff.

The film had its world premiere at Tribeca International Film Festival earlier this year and is one of the first feature films to feature the indigenous Skolt Sámi language.

The pic also won the top prize at Finnish Film Affair, Helsinki Film Festival’s parallel industry section. Set in a time following the Second World War when fierce policies of assimilation fueled attacks on Sami culture, the pic follows an aunt and her niece who’ve never met before when they embark on a trip to Lapland to empty a house they’ve inherited.

However, it turns out the withdrawn and distrusting aunt had been a victim of the assimilation policies, and the niece must make a big decision.

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