Blush – An Extraordinary Voyage
Details
For 18-year-old Finnish–Kosovan Fatu, a simple visit to the grocery store feels as nerve-racking as a lunar expedition: for the first time in his life, he’s wearing makeup in public. Luckily his best friend Rai, a young woman on the spectrum of autism, is there to ferociously support him through the voyage.
Festivals: DOK Leipzig 2022, Tallinn Black Nights 2022, Ann Arbor 2023
DIRECTOR: Iiti Yli-Harja
SCRIPT: Iiti Yli-Harja
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Iiti Yli-Harja
PRODUCTION DESIGNERS: Pekka Härkönen, Iiti Yli-Harja, Alli Sillanpää
EDITING: Otto Heikola
SOUND DESIGNER: Ville-Matti Koskiniemi
MUSIC: Iiti Yli-Harja, Ville-Matti Koskiniemi
PRODUCERS: Valtteri Munkki, Mikko Heino
PRODUCTION COMPANY: Side Stories
FESTIVAL DISTRIBUTION: Raina Films
Director
Iiti Yli-Harja
Iiti Yli-Harja (b. 1987) is a stop-motion animation artist, a documentarist and a musician. She graduated from Aalto University, Finland, as Master of Arts in 2021. Her films combine documentary material with fictional elements of stop- motion animation. She finds it valuable that even the process of making a film tries to shape the world for the better, not just the end result. Her documentary puppet animation Real Men (2020) was awarded as the best short film at Helsinki International Film Festival in 2020.
Contact
Otto Suuronen
Advisor / International Promotion and Cultural Export of Short Films
• festival distribution strategy for short films and short documentary films
• project, travel and material support for international promotion: short films and short documentary films
• monthly short film screenings at Kino K13
• curating short film programmes
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