Iiti Yli-Harja
Director · b. 1987
Iiti Yli-Harja (b. 1987) is a stop-motion animation artist, a documentarist and a musician. She graduated from Aalto University as Master of Arts in 2021. Her films combine documentary material with fictional elements of stop-motion animation. She often explores and celebrates human imperfection in her films: what is good enough? Her documentary puppet animation Real Men (2020) was awarded as the best short film at Helsinki International Film Festival in 2020.
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Movie7.0ComedyMusicThe supermarket is nearing its closing time, and the last customers are queuing for their turn at the fish counter. The agonizing wait offers a chance for existential reflection and a little song.
Movie6.0DocumentaryAnimationIn this warm-hearted puppet animation documentary, we get to know the filmmaker’s 54-year-old mother Maija through her phone calls. We see how she copes with the difficult things in her life, like alcoholism and autism, demanding family members, and various absurd situations that seem to follow her.