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: Directed by Amanda Kernell. With Maj-Doris Rimpi, Olle Sarri, Ánne Biret Somby, Bo Lundmark. A reindeer-breeding Sámi girl who is exposed to the racism of the 1930's at her boarding school, starts dreaming of another life.
Jul 13, 2018 · A breakout critical discovery of the 2016 Venice International Film Festival, Swedish-Sami filmmaker Amanda Kernell’s striking directorial debut is a female coming-of-age story told with ...
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...
Jun 2, 2017 · Though its title sound like it could be the name of a heavy-metal band’s lead singer, “Sami Blood” is a Swedish-Norwegian-Danish co-production that concerns the Sami people, an indigenous population that raises reindeer in Scandinavia’s far north and, in the film’s telling, were oppressed and disdained by other Swedes in the 1930s ...
A teenage girl is taken from her home and family and sent to a state school where indigenous students are converted into acceptable members of Swedish society.
May 30, 2018 · SAMI BLOOD - Official HD Trailer - A film by Amanda Kernell. © Palace Films 2017 http://www.palacefilms.com.au/samiblood VOTED TOP 5 – AUDIENCE POLL – 2017 SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL...
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.
Mar 27, 2018 · Elle Marja, 14, is a reindeer-herding Sami girl. Exposed to the racism of the 1930s and race biology examinations at her boarding school, she starts dreaming of another life. To achieve this other life she has to become someone else and break all ties with her family and culture.
Sep 1, 2016 · A moving, classically rendered coming-of-age tale set against the scarring social prejudices of the 1930s, this handsome debut feature from Swedish-Sami writer-director Amanda Kernell robustly ...
