Sanna Liljander

Sanna Liljander is a Finnish filmmaker (BA, Aalto University’s ELO) and visual artist (MFA, Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki), who works in the fields of documentary film and media art. In her art, Liljander likes to deal with people’s social emotions and relationships with each other, as well as the themes of letting go, longing and remembering. Her works have been screened widely at film festivals (in Finland e.g. Tampere FF, Midnight Sun FF, DocPoint, Love & Anarchy / internationally e.g. Edinburgh IFF, Odense IFF, Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, Uppsala SFF) as well as in galleries, events and cinemas, and won various prizes, including the Risto Jarva Award. When Will the Day Break is the first work from a series that explores the effects of serious illness on close relationships – in other words, love in the face of hardship.