Jenny Jokela

Directing

Jenny Jokela

Known for

Directing

Credits

7 titles

Jenny Jokela (1990) is a Finnish animation director and illustrator based in the UK. She graduated from Royal College of Art in 2017, where she studied MA Animation. Her graduation film Barbeque has won multiple awards including Cristal at Annecy 2018. Since 2018, Jenny directs and animates Finnish kids TV show Hoppsorna. In her colourful and expressive personal work Jenny explores visualising the invisible; feelings and emotions, often around the topics of sexuality and trauma.

Known for

Arne Alligator och djungelkompisarna poster
5.6

We get to follow Arne and his friends on their adventures where they encounter different challenges and do their best to solve them together. With their likeable and unique personalities – quirky, kind and brave – they make a perfect group of friends.

Arne Alligator och djungelkompisarna

2024

Dollhouse Elephant poster
6.0

A group of neighbours, each focused on their own goals, must learn to communicate and consider one another. But when small, everyday actions trigger unexpected consequences, they are forced into interactions that challenge their independence.

Dollhouse Elephant

2025

Coldplay: A Film for the Future poster
5.0

The visual accompaniment to Coldplay’s No 1 album Moon Music, created by over 150 different visual artists from 45 countries. Each artist was given a handful of music snippets from Moon Music and asked to create corresponding visuals. There were no rules or guidelines, and no knowledge of other artists’ creations.

Coldplay: A Film for the Future

2025

Barbeque poster
5.0

How do mermaids give birth and where are the lines between creature and human?

Barbeque

2017

Layers Of Flesh poster
NR

Layers of Flesh is a surreal story about not belonging. About the beautiful personalities that gets hidden and pushed to the side when trying to conform and fit in.

Layers Of Flesh

2012

Sweet Like Lemons poster
6.5

Sweet Like Lemons is a visual reflection on getting out of a harmful relationship and moving on. The title is a play on the saying “when life gives you lemons make lemonade”, only in this case there is no lemonade to be made but the lemons still taste sweeter than what you left behind.

Sweet Like Lemons

2023

Behind the camera

Arne Alligator och djungelkompisarna poster
5.6

We get to follow Arne and his friends on their adventures where they encounter different challenges and do their best to solve them together. With their likeable and unique personalities – quirky, kind and brave – they make a perfect group of friends.

Arne Alligator och djungelkompisarna

2024

Dollhouse Elephant poster
6.0

A group of neighbours, each focused on their own goals, must learn to communicate and consider one another. But when small, everyday actions trigger unexpected consequences, they are forced into interactions that challenge their independence.

Dollhouse Elephant

2025

Coldplay: A Film for the Future poster
5.0

The visual accompaniment to Coldplay’s No 1 album Moon Music, created by over 150 different visual artists from 45 countries. Each artist was given a handful of music snippets from Moon Music and asked to create corresponding visuals. There were no rules or guidelines, and no knowledge of other artists’ creations.

Coldplay: A Film for the Future

2025

Barbeque poster
5.0

How do mermaids give birth and where are the lines between creature and human?

Barbeque

2017

Layers Of Flesh poster
NR

Layers of Flesh is a surreal story about not belonging. About the beautiful personalities that gets hidden and pushed to the side when trying to conform and fit in.

Layers Of Flesh

2012

Sweet Like Lemons poster
6.5

Sweet Like Lemons is a visual reflection on getting out of a harmful relationship and moving on. The title is a play on the saying “when life gives you lemons make lemonade”, only in this case there is no lemonade to be made but the lemons still taste sweeter than what you left behind.

Sweet Like Lemons

2023

Live a Little poster
NR

Live a Little is a visual poem about the anxieties and struggles of fitting in and acting in accordance with the social norms of how a young.

Live a Little

2018