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This film is about Kiruna, the first girl born there. The city’s founder Hjalmar Lundbohm named her Kiruna and decided that the first girl of every generation in that family should bear that name. Kiruna’s life fell short, dying at 26 from cancer, only a week after her godfather Hjalmar Lundbohm. The film follows Kiruna’s granddaughter Britt-Inger Kiruna who lovingly tells the story about her grandmother.
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Liselotte Wajstedt, born in 1973 in Kiruna and currently based in Stockholm, works as a director and screenwriter, while also engaging in installation and visual art. Through her extensive body of experimental moving image work, she explores aesthetics and politics with recurring themes such as heritage, abuse, and identity.
Her experimental work includes more than two dozen short and feature-length films. Through hybrid documentary, experimental media, music video, dance, and fiction film, Wajstedt employs a wide range of styles and techniques in service of her political and artistic expressions, including animation, claymation, stop-motion, and superimposition. Many of Wajstedt’s films explicitly or implicitly engage with multiple and hybrid subject positions, as evident in EADNI (2023), Tystnaden i Sápmi (2022), Sire och den sista sommaren (2022), Kiruna–Rymdvägen (2013), Sami Daughter Joik (2008), and The Lost One (2014).