Island of Souls / Själö , 2020

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2020

Finland

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Lotta Petronella
Lotta Petronella, Seppo Parkkinen
Ilona Tolmunen
Kerttu Hakkarainen
Lotta Petronella, Jasmin Inkinen
documentary
16+
78 min

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2020
Finland
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Lotta Petronella
Lotta Petronella, Seppo Parkkinen
Ilona Tolmunen
Kerttu Hakkarainen
Lotta Petronella, Jasmin Inkinen
documentary
16+
78 min

Island of Souls

Själö

For centuries, a closed institution served as a final destination for socially transgressive women at Själö, an isolated island in the Baltic Sea. The outcast women were kept there in detention, to be observed, studied and measured – in much the same way as the surrounding nature is by scientists at the now converted research center. While a young scientist is collecting samples around the island, the past emerges in the whispers of the unsent letters and empty rooms of the hospital. The space fills up with hidden memories as the invisible archives come alive. Whose stories are remembered and whose are forgotten?

Selected festival history

2020-2021
CPH:DOX (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Visioni dal Mondo International Documentary Film Festival (Milano, Italia)
The Helsinki International Film Festival – Love & Anarchy (Helsinki, Finland)
Brisbane International Film Festival (Brisbane, Australia)
Pacific Meridian International Film Festival (Vladivostok, Russia)
Kaunas International Film Festival (Kaunas, Lithuania)

Lotta Petronella

DIRECTOR'S BIOGRAPHY:
Lotta Petronella is filmmaker, artist and curator based between Barcelona and Helsinki. Petronella is trained as a fine artist at Chelsea College of Art in London where she worked and lived for over a decade collaborating on a number of film and television productions as a camera operator, editor, costume designer and composer including BBC, Channel 4, Discovery Channel and Fim and Video Umbrella. She holds a MA in Creative Documentary from Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona (2017). In 2015 she received the Stina Krook Stipend Award for her work as an artist. Her films have been shown internationally at film festivals, art galleries, and broadcasted widely.

DIRECTOR'S FILMOGRAPHY:
2020 - Island of Souls
2019 - Land Without God
2015 - HEM Någonstans

Lotta Petronella

DIRECTOR'S BIOGRAPHY:
Lotta Petronella is filmmaker, artist and curator based between Barcelona and Helsinki. Petronella is trained as a fine artist at Chelsea College of Art in London where she worked and lived for over a decade collaborating on a number of film and television productions as a camera operator, editor, costume designer and composer including BBC, Channel 4, Discovery Channel and Fim and Video Umbrella. She holds a MA in Creative Documentary from Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona (2017). In 2015 she received the Stina Krook Stipend Award for her work as an artist. Her films have been shown internationally at film festivals, art galleries, and broadcasted widely.

DIRECTOR'S FILMOGRAPHY:
2020 - Island of Souls
2019 - Land Without God
2015 - HEM Någonstans

Lotta Petronella

DIRECTOR'S BIOGRAPHY:
Lotta Petronella is filmmaker, artist and curator based between Barcelona and Helsinki. Petronella is trained as a fine artist at Chelsea College of Art in London where she worked and lived for over a decade collaborating on a number of film and television productions as a camera operator, editor, costume designer and composer including BBC, Channel 4, Discovery Channel and Fim and Video Umbrella. She holds a MA in Creative Documentary from Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona (2017). In 2015 she received the Stina Krook Stipend Award for her work as an artist. Her films have been shown internationally at film festivals, art galleries, and broadcasted widely.

DIRECTOR'S FILMOGRAPHY:
2020 - Island of Souls
2019 - Land Without God
2015 - HEM Någonstans