Katja Gauriloff

Katja Gauriloff (b. 1972) is a film director, scriptwriter and a co-owner of the production company Oktober. Her documentary films Canned Dreams and Kaisa’s Enchanted Forest both screened at Berlinale and at various other international film festivals. Kaisa’s Enchanted Forest won the Finnish film award Jussi for best documentary film in 2016. Gauriloff’s first fiction film Baby Jane came out in 2019 and her second feature Je’vida opened in Tribeca 2023. Je’vida is the first ever feature film in the Skolt Sámi language. Gauriloff lives and works in Rovaniemi, Northern Finland.