Samiske filmer

Religious and cultural reawakening inspires rebellion in a 19th century Norwegian village.

A reindeer-breeding Sámi girl who is exposed to the racism of the 1930's at her boarding school, starts dreaming of another life. But to achieve it, she has to become someone else and break all ties with her family and culture.

A young Sámi man witnesses a band of vicious raiders slay his family and flees to a nearby village, where he learns he must become a Pathfinder.

On the background of a hunger strike to save a famous salmon river from being dammed up for electrical power development, the Sami Ole Raino believes in his own protests. He plans a sabotage.

The confused old age home patient Nils creates a bond with the new substitute Karen, but is she able to help him with his last wish?

Elle, 78, doesn't like indigenous Sami people - though her first language was South Sami. Under pressure from her son, she reluctantly returns to Lapland and the Great Northern Mountain for her sister's sami funeral - but when they are going home it turns out that her son has planned for them stay with the family and go up to the mountains to the reindeers. Refusing to do so Elle checks in to the local Grand hotel with all the tourists..

Winter in Lapland, a settler and his wife just had their newborn daughter baptized. On the way home through the wilderness, they are chased by a pack of wolves. The little baby falls out of the sledge and parents plunges off a cliff.