Elle Marja
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Plot. In 2017, 78-year-old Christina comes with her son Olle and granddaughter Sanna to a small town in Swedish Lapland to attend the Sami funeral of her younger sister. Christina, who locals call by her original Sami name, Elle-Marja, does not want to be there.
Jun 2, 2017 · Sami Blood is a 2016 film directed by Amanda Kernell, starring Maj-Doris Rimpi as Elle Marja, a Sámi girl who attends a boarding school in 1930s Lapland. The film explores her struggle to balance her indigenous heritage and her desire to integrate into Swedish society.
- (8.3K)
- Drama, History
- Amanda Kernell
- 2017-06-02
Jul 13, 2018 · Sami Blood - Official Trailer. A breakout critical discovery of the 2016 Venice International Film Festival, Swedish-Sami filmmaker Amanda Kernell’s striking directorial debut is a female...
- 2 min
- 142.3K
- Madman Films
In Theaters At Home TV Shows. A teenage girl is taken from her home and family and sent to a state school where indigenous students are converted into...
- (30)
- Lene Cecilia Sparrok
- Amanda Kernell
- Drama
Jun 2, 2017 · Set in the 1930s, the film follows Elle-Marja, a Sami girl who rebels against the oppression and discrimination of her indigenous culture and dreams of a better life in the city. The film explores the themes of identity, racism, love and loss through the eyes of a young woman who becomes Christina in the modern day.
Jun 1, 2017 · “Sami Blood” is at its most compelling during the sequences in which Elle-Marja is othered and dehumanized for her lineage, the sequences in which she’s suddenly...
In 1930s Lapland, the 14-year-old indigenous Sámi girl, Elle Marja, leaves the wild ancestral grounds and the family's reindeer camp to attend a remote draconian boarding school along with her younger sister, Njenna.
