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Kira Jääskeläinen
Kira Jääskeläinen (born 1979 in Warsaw, Poland) is a Finland, Finnish-Poland, Polish documentary film director. Background Jääskeläinen was born in Poland into a family of artists, but moved to Finland at the age of five. In the early years of the 2000s Jääskeläinen studied humanities at the University of Copenhagen, concentrating in East European Studies and the Russian language, and wrote her MA thesis on the material she collected in Chukchi Peninsula, Chukotka. Later she studied in Moscow, in the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography, majoring in documentary film making. Jääskeläinen has also studied classical music and plays the cello. Family The Finnish documentarist Jarmo Jääskeläinen (1937–2022) was her father. Films Jääskeläinen's first documentary ''Takigaks – Once Were Hunters'' was released in 2012. It tells about two brothers, Kolya and Sasha, who are Siberian Yupiks and live in the village of Novoye Chaplino in the eastern extremity of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warsaw
Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officially estimated at 1.86 million residents within a greater metropolitan area of 3.1 million residents, which makes Warsaw the 7th most-populous city in the European Union. The city area measures and comprises 18 districts, while the metropolitan area covers . Warsaw is an Alpha global city, a major cultural, political and economic hub, and the country's seat of government. Warsaw traces its origins to a small fishing town in Masovia. The city rose to prominence in the late 16th century, when Sigismund III decided to move the Polish capital and his royal court from Kraków. Warsaw served as the de facto capital of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth until 1795, and subsequently as the seat of Napoleon's Duchy of Warsaw. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
