A candid debut from director Sara Margrethe Oskal about a Sami artist, Lena, who travels to Lapland in northern Norway with her son to find inspiration for a project about Sami gender issues. She grew up in this fairy-tale landscape and upon her arrival begins to take stock of her roots, but she has lived in the big city for years. Lena falls in love with a reindeer herder, Máhtte. His mother does not approve of Leni at all.
A candid debut by a former reindeer herder herself, Sary Margrethe Oskal, premiered at the Toronto Film Festival. The Sámi artist Lena and her son arrive in the snowy landscape of Lapland in northern Norway to draw inspiration for a project about Sámi gender issues. She grew up in an almost fairytale landscape and upon her arrival begins to take stock of her roots. She has lived in a big city for years, and the slow pace of life, connection with nature and hard manual labor lead her to revise her priorities. She falls in love with a reindeer herder, Máhtte. His mother does not approve of Lena's way of life and sees her as an intruder. Doubts surface as to whether the relationship has a future, while Lena begins to question her own art. The specific subworld of the tundra examines the national heritage of Sámi society, its identity and specific habits. The candid film is a journey into the depths of a personal crisis and a search for hope. The beautifully shot scenery is as dazzling as it is melancholic. The universal story of finding one's place in a community transcends local specifics and burrows under the skin of each of us.
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Risten Anine Kvernmo Gaup, Nils Ailu Kemi, Anitta Suikkari, Berit Anne Oskal Kemi, Anders Isak Oskal, Elias Ánte Pilutaq Gaup Lennert