Movies: Sami people
- 2024
Stolen (2024)
Stolen3.52024HD
A young woman struggles to defend her Sámi heritage in a world where xenophobia is on the rise, climate change is threatening reindeer herding, and young people choose suicide in the face of collective desperation....
- 2023
Let the River Flow (2023)
Let the River Flow4.42023HD
During summer 1979, Ester moves to Alta in Northern Norway to begin teaching at an elementary school. Like many Sámi at the time, she is ashamed of her heritage and conceals her ethnicity. Ester goes to great lengths to fit in, even joining in with t...
- 2008
The Kautokeino Rebellion (2008)
The Kautokeino Rebellion3.22008HD
Religious and cultural reawakening inspires rebellion in a 19th century Norwegian village....
- 2023
The Homecoming (2023)
The Homecoming4.52023HD
Sámi artefacts from the Finnish National Museum are returning home to Sápmi, while the holy drums of the Sámi people are still imprisoned in the basements of museums across Europe. The returning objects symbolise the dignity, identity, history, conne...
- 1957
Nine Lives (1957)
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The movie takes place during World War II and depicts the true story of Jan Baalsruds amazing escape from the German army from the coast of Northern Norway and across the border to the neutral country Sweden....
- 2011
The turning point - the environmental stuggle that became indigenous affairs (2011)
The turning point - the environmental stuggle that became indigenous affairs0.32011HD
Personal accounts from the Alta actions in the years 1979 to 1981. Large police forces were deployed against the demonstrators. The dispute over the Alta river began as an environmental issue, but became a major turning point for the Sámi people's st...
- 2020
Svonni vs the Swedish Tax Agency (2020)
Svonni vs the Swedish Tax Agency2.52020HD
A Sámi woman fights for her right to claim a tax deduction against the purchase of a dog. Why the Swedish authorities fail to recognize the dog's use as a reindeer herding tool versus a pet opens up a larger discussion about Indigenous rights and eco...
- 2021
Eatnameamet – Our Silent Struggle (2021)
Eatnameamet – Our Silent Struggle3.82021HD
The AssimiNation is a political pamphlet portraying the indigenous Sámi people fighting for their existence. The film follows the on going cultural genocide of the Sámi which the current Governmental politics allow. This film is a cry for help for th...
- 2016
Kaisa's Enchanted Forest (2016)
Kaisa's Enchanted Forest4.02016HD
Crottet came to Suonikylä in Petsamo for the first time already before the World Wars, and was enchanted by the self-regulatory community he met there. Gauriloff skilfully combines documentary material and the most dreamlike layers of the human mind,...
- 2023
Je'vida (2023)
Je'vida3.72023HD
Iida, an elderly Sámi woman, who has abandoned her roots under the pressure of forced Finnishization, is conflicted between selling her old homestead and hiding her cultural heritage from her niece, as the rural way of life she has suppressed begins ...
- 1926
With Reindeer and Sled in Inka Länta’s Winterland (1926)
With Reindeer and Sled in Inka Länta’s Winterland3.31926HD
Everyday wintertime life of Sámi reindeer herder Inka Länta and her family, mingling authentic and fictionalized takes....
- 1927
Arnljot (1927)
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The year is 1025 and Arnljot Sunvisson has returned home after a long journey to find that his betrothed has married another....
- 2023
Rap and Reindeer (2023)
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The documentary Rap and Reindeer follows the life of 18-year-old Sámi rapper Mihkku Laiti, who lives in the northernmost corner of Sámiland. The film is a coming-of-age story, following Mihku on his journey towards a career as a musician and rise to ...
- 2007
A Shout into the Wind (2007)
A Shout into the Wind0.32007HD
The fate of a culture lies on the shoulders of few determined individuals....
- 1943
I brist på bevis (1943)
I brist på bevis2.31943HD
A drama about the manager Håkan Dahlin who has just been discharged from a clinic where he was treated for his alcoholism. In an outbreak of jealousy, Dahlin abuses his wife Inga and after that he is forcibly interned again. Inga is a nurse and she i...
- 2022
Sire and the last summer (2022)
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The year was 1916, we follow Sire’s everyday life, until her final moments. We are a part of her little world and get to see how big that little world can be. How rich it’s in emotions, sounds and memories. Sire reminds us of life, not death. She was...
- 2018
Giitu (2018)
Giitu4.82018HD
A woman returns home to her father and childhood home, after being gone for over 20 years. Her purpose for the visit is to deliver the message that her fathers former wife has passed away....
- 2016
Me and My Little Sister (2016)
Me and My Little Sister2.42016HD
Loving someone of the same gender is frowned upon in Sami communities. Sparrooabbán (Me and my little sister) shows what it’s like to be a minority within a minority. Suvi describes how her little sister Kaisa wishes to be accepted as she is. Like he...
- 1990
Made in Tärnaby (1990)
Made in Tärnaby0.31990HD
Follows Astrid & Sune as they show techniques and methods of sami handcraft....
- 1981
The Princess Lindagull (1981)
The Princess Lindagull0.31981HD
The Persian ruler Shah Nadir has only one daughter. Princess Lindagull is kind-hearted, but feels trapped in her palace life. The vengeful King Bom-Bali sends a Lappish witch disguised as a tiger to kidnap the beloved Princess....