JUST ANIMALS

ELÄINOIKEUSJUTTU

By Saila KIVELÄ, Vesa KUOSMANEN

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Documentary - Completed 2022

A personal documentary that portrays Saila, an activist for animal rights, facing her own limits when realizes that the utopia she has always fought for, will never be as she imagined.

Festivals
& Awards

CPH:DOX 2022
In Competition - Nordic Dox Award
HotDocs 2022
Official Selection
    • Year of production
    • 2022
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • FINLAND
    • Languages
    • FINNISH
    • Duration
    • 83 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Saila KIVELÄ, Vesa KUOSMANEN
    • Producer(s)
    • Elli TOIVONIEMI (Tuffi Films), Juha LÖPPÖNEN (Tuffi Films), Venla HELLSTEDT (Tuffi Films)
    • Synopsis
    • More than ten years ago Saila confessed openly that she was part of the activist group that secretly filmed hundreds of animal farms. Saila spent three years of her youth in a legal battle where the prosecutor was seeking jail sentence for her and the farmers wanted extreme compensation.
      Saila’s sister Mai chooses a different path, politics, and Saila fears her biggest activist idol might become a part of the machinery they had been together fighting against. The leading activist, Kristo, saw Saila as the next hope for the movement, but Saila cannot prove the animals suffer anymore. She also needs to save herself and find out what kind of an activist and a person she is.