Anssi Kasitonni’s Saladdin Castique (2019) was selected for the international competition of 32. Stuttgarter Filmwinter. The Festival for Expanded Media is held from January 17–20. Saladdin Castique is screened on Friday, January 18, at 19:00 in International Competition 2, FITZ! Cinema
Previously, Saladdin Castique was awarded with a Special Mention at the 64th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen by the Jury of the Ministry for Culture and Science of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia.
In Saladdin Castique, a man walks in the forest and tries to find berries. He finds instead an empty French salad dressing bottle. A genie comes out of the bottle and grants the man three wishes. The man uses the wishes traditionally but he uses bad language all the time and the genie does not like it. The man is going to learn a lesson.
Anssi Kasitonni is a skateboarder and an award-winning artist from Sahalahti, Finland. He has worked in music, drawing and sculpture, but to many of his fans, the most beloved of his works are the short films he makes at his own farm. The films deal with age-old questions related to morality, love, death, generation gaps, sexuality and, of course, submarines. The ideas are epic, the films decidedly homespun. His movies create their own world that tells us something essential about ours. Kasitonni won the esteemed Ars Fennica Award in 2011.
32. Stuttgarter Filmwinter – Festival for Expanded Media, January 17–20 2019, Germany
More information: Stuttgarter Filmwinter