Kati Kallio

The film portrays how wild, free and beautiful the aging body is, how pointless the fear of wrinkles and skin folds is. Ode to Age is a dance film about elderly women who have had enough of the colorlessness of life. Together, they take off their everyday clothes and by joyful and undisciplined throw themselves into the Finnish summer.

Old woman looks outside her apartment window and sees her life passing, or dancing, in front of her eyes.

Contrapeso is about a man struggling to uphold the meaningless construction of his life and whom through a mystical event, breaks the barrier he’s built for himself and recognises his true nature.

Three dancers moving from one space to another in an old Russian factory, affirming moments of stagnation in endless time.

Laura is a Skolt Sámi woman who grew up outside the Sámi region. Through the quadrille dance, she reaches out to her unknown cultural heritage.