Programme 2011

Indigenous Peoples' Film Festival, Inari

SKÁBMAGOVAT 2012 PROGRAM

THURSDAY 26.1.

17.00 Festival opening for the whole family / Norhtern Lights Theater

18.00 SOUNDS FROM SAHA & CANADA / Siida
The Gathering
Canada, 2010, 22 min.
Director: David Martin
Producer: Hyphen Communications
Languages: English
The Olympic Games provide a prominent forum for reminding the world of the existence of indigenous peoples. From all around Canada, 350 young people were given this chance at the opening ceremony of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games. For the young people, the trip to Vancouver was important in many ways.

While the Wind Blows (Tual baarun tuharui)
Russia, 2010, 76 min.
Director: Sergei Potapov
Producer: Cinema Centre Production
Languages: Saha; subtitles: English, Russian
The first feature film made in the Republic of Saha is a visually impressive version of the story of Beauty and the Beast set in the wilds of Russia. A mysterious storyteller is staying overnight at the house of the Moyo family, when Aiyyna, the beautiful daughter of the family, is suddenly seized by a freak hermit. The experience changes Aiyyna’s life, but the fiery search party of the bridegroom is already on the way. Not for the chicken-hearted.

20.00 SÁMI FILM 25 YEARS: PAUL-ANDERS SIMMA / Sajos
In 2012, we celebrate the 25th anniversary of Sámi Cinema. Paul-Anders Simma, who swapped the reindeer-herding traditions of Karesuando to film-making, was the only prominent Sámi film-maker in the 1990s, if TV productions are not taken into account. In addition to several short films, he has made a long documentary The Legacy of the Tundra (1994) and a feature film called The Minister of State (1997).

Let’s Dance!
Finland, 1991, 19 min.
Director: Paul-Anders Simma
Production: SAFI Oy
Languages: North Sámi; subtitles: Finnish, Swedish
The breakthrough of the Sámi director is a humorous story about a young boy Lassi, who lives in harsh conditions in the winter. One day, he sees an advertisement on a dance and sets out on a trip that becomes unforgettable, thanks to snuff and first love.

Earth of Rage (Vaši eatnamat)
Finland, 1994, 29 min.
Director: Paul-Anders Simma
Production: SAFI Oy
Languages: North Sámi; subtitles: Finnish, Swedish
Two cultures meet in Hammerfest, Norway. One is the old nomadic way of life based on a wide seasonal migration pattern, the other is a modern urban culture that has developed around oil and fish industry. A clash is inevitable but appears in an absurd form.

Dog’s Life (Beatnaga eallin)
Finland, 1996, 25 min.
Director: Paul-Anders Simma
Production: SAFI Oy
Languages: North Sámi, French; subtitles: Finnish, Swedish
The purebred Chien Chinois a Creten leads the upper-class life of an exhibition dog in a fashionable part of Paris. The Lapp dog Čalmmu, again, shepherds reindeer in the gorgeous fells of Lapland where existence depends on instincts and natural forces. Do these two dogs have anything else in common than their four legs?

FRIDAY 27.1.

09.00 A TAIWANESE MORNING ASSEMBLY / Siida
Kuei-Ying (Rita) Tseng from the Paiwan tribe tells about the television of the Taiwanese indigenous peoples (TITV).

11.00 SOUTH AMERICA: THE POWER OF MEDIA / Siida
Salar
Bolivia, 2011, 20 min.
Director: Nicholas Greene
Producer: Julie Buck, Roberto Lanza
Languages: English, Quechua, Spanish; subtitles: English
Two men meet in an isolated Bolivian village, at the edge of the world’s largest salt flat: an American doctor Marc who is thinking about leaving the area, and a fiery salt miner Carlos, who has been stabbed in his hand with a knife and fears losing his job in the multinational company.

The War For Other Media (La guerra por otros medios)
Argentina, 2010, 75 min.
Director: Emilio Cartoy Díaz, Cristián Jure
Producer: Silvina Rossi Masato Media Srl
Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, indigenous languages; subtitles: English
Indigenous peoples in Latin America have woken up to develop their own media. A few successful examples of how the camera and microphone can consolidate culture are the online network ERBOL of the Bolivian Aymara Indians in the Amazon, the online radio of the Mapuche in Patagonia, Chile, and the Video in the Villages project in Brazil. With the aid of notebooks, radios, cameras and phones they resist the invasion of their territories, the ransacking of their resources, cultural discrimination, the non-recognition of their institutions, inequalities and having to vindicate their traditions.

11.00 SÁMI EDUCATION INSTITUTE: WAKE UP, MIGRATORY BIRDS! / Sajos
New films produced by the Media Course of the Sámi Education Institute SOGSAKK in Inari in 2011.

A Migratory Bird (Muuttolintu)
Finland, 2011, 10 min.
Director: Pia Mikkilä
Languages: Finnish
A documentary on the artist Mirja Ranttila, who has moved back to the area where she was born.

An Outsider at Home (Kotona ulkopuolinen)
Finland, 2011, 13 min.
Director: Irene Länsman
Languages: Finnish
A film about life in a bilingual family: how easy it is to feel like an outsider if one knows only one of the languages used in the family.

Crafted by the Past (Doložis duddjojuvvon)
Finland, 2011, 18 min.
Director: Vilma Rautakangas
Languages: North Sámi, Finnish; subtitles: Finnish
Ilmari Laiti, an experienced artisan, teaches his student Sami Laiti how to make a Sámi wooden cup. At the same time, the men discuss the past and the future of Sámi arts and crafts.

The Awakening (Herääminen)
Finland, 2011, 6 min.
Director: Matti Kukkola
A man reflects on his thoughts on alcohol.

Twinkle (Tuike)
Finland, 2011, 2 min.
Director: Vilma Rautakangas
Languages: English
A short fairy tale film about siblings.

Forest Gnome (Meahcceháldi)
Finland, 2011, 2 min.
Director: Janne Kyrö
Languages: North Sámi
A small forest gnome faces a challenge when the door of his home tree is covered by a rock. An animation film set in the woods of Inari.

Adventure at Sea (Mearra fearán)
Finland, 2011, 2 min.
Director: Maria Kosonen
Languages: North Sámi
An animation of an owl sailing at sea on a sunny day. Suddenly, a storm arises and the owl’s boat begins to sink…

Meeting (Deaivvadeapmi)
Finland, 2011, 2 min.
Director: Marjo Ulkuniemi
A lonesome girl and a boy who likes to skateboard meet and fall for each other. In this animation, small sympathetic rocks participate in what happens.

13.00 BRAZIL: THE MEMORY OF IMAGES / Siida
Divino Tserewahú from the nation Xavante is one of the most prominent directors trained by the Video in the Villages project that works with aboriginal communities in Brazil. In these two films, Tserewahú maps the history, the traditions and the pressures of change in his home region.

Tsõ’rehipãri – Sangradouro
Brazil, 2009, 28 min.
Director: Divino Tserewahú, Amandine Goisbault, Tiago Campos Tôrres
Production: Video nas Aldeias
Languages: Xavánte, Portuguese; subtitles: English
For centuries, the Xavante have avoided contacts with white people. In the 1940s, the colonizing of inland Brazil began and the Xavante were forced to be in contact with authorities and missionaries. Weakened by malaria and the confrontations, they gave themselves up one by one. Catholic priests gathered them to a mission station in Sangrodouro. Ever since, the Xavante have balanced between Western influences and their own traditions.

Pi´õnhitsi, Unnamed Xavánte Women (Pi´õnhitsi, mulheres Xavánte sem nome)
Brazil, 2010, 56 min.
Director: Divino Tserewahú, Tiago Campos Tôrres
Producer: Video nas Aldeias / Video in the Villages
Languages: Xavánte, Portuguese; subtitles: English
After trying for years to make a film about the initiation rite of Xávante women – a rite that has been kept up only in Sangradouro, the home village of the director Tserewahú – the filmmakers take a new course. Together with the inhabitants of the village, they look at old recordings and reflect on the difficulty of and even resistance to maintaining the extraordinary ceremonial tradition. The film won the award for the best documentary film at Recife Ethnographical Film Festival in Brazil in 2010.

15.00 TAIWAN I: STORIES OF HEALING / Siida
Pislahi – Prayer Song
Taiwan, 2011, 26 min.
Director: Wen-heng Lin
Production: TITV
Languages: Bunun, Japanese; subtitles: English
A young woman who is doing a research on the Bunun nation comes back from the city to meet her friend. They recall a sad story of many songs about a doctor, who was sent to the island during the Japanese occupation in the 1930s to fight malaria. Some Bunun had been forced to move from the mountains to a valley where they had no resistance to diseases. With a young nurse, the doctor starts an arduous battle against the authorities.

A Doctor's Diary in Lanyu
Taiwan, 2009, 82 min.
Director: Hong-Cheng Lin
Production: TITV
Languages: Mandarin Chinese, Bunun, Tao; subtitles: English
Tobas, a Bunun doctor, who is recovering in a hospital, gets an amulet from a dying Tao man. When the doctor is well, he goes to work on the man’s home island Lanyu, where he does not know the language and where he, being a modern doctor from outside the island, is not trusted. With the help of a dumb boy and a nurse who reveals him some of the secrets of the culture, the man tries to earn a place for himself in the community.

17.00 AMERICA: MOTHER NATURE BREATHS / Siida
Sirmilik
Canada, 2011, 10 min.
Director: Zacharias Kunuk
Producer: Primitive Entertainment
Languages: Inuktitut; subtitles: English
To honour the 100th anniversary of Parks Canada, 52 present artists created their views of the thirteen national parks of Canada. Zacharias Kunuk, the master of Inuk cinema, shot a fascinating short documentary on Nunavut’s Sirmilik, an area the name of which means in Inuktitut “the place with glaciers”. The reminiscences of an old man, the throat singing of a young woman and the dazzling photography of the film give a special tone to this short but unforgettable visit to the Arctic landscape.

Bloodland
Canada, 2011, 4 min.
Director/Producer: Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers
Languages: Blackfoot, English
A film by the Sámi/Blackfoot director is a social statement on the irreversible and detrimental impact of gas and oil exploration on our planet and in particular on the impact that hydraulic fracturing will have on the Blood Reserve in Canada.

Extraction
Canada, 2011, 15 min.
Director/Producer: Myron A. Lameman
Languages: English
Surrounded by tar sand fields that threaten their way of life, the Cree of Beaver Lake sue the governments of Alberta and Canada for breach of contract. In this short film, the Cree director reflects with the help of artistic means on the contradiction between cultural protection and economic survival. The film has been made with financial assistance from the All Roads Project of the National Geographic.

And the River Flows On (Y el Río Sigue Corriendo)
Mexico, 2010, 70 min.
Director: Carlos Efraín Pérez Rojas
Producer: Daniela Contreras
Languages: Spanish; subtitles: English
Since 2003, the government of Mexico has tried to build a hydroelectric power plant and dam at La Parota that would flood the lands of 75,000 people south of Acapulco. This documentary by a Mixe director tells how persistently and almost at the cost of their lives four communities have fought against bureaucracy and the companies that want to harness the river in order to save their homes and sources of livelihood. The film was made with an All Roads Scholarship from the National Geographic, and it was a candidate for the best documentary in Mexico in 2010.

19.00 SÁMI FILM 25 YEARS: NILS GAUP / Sajos
The time of the Sámi Film, and aboriginal films in general, began in 1987, when Pathfinder by Nils Gaup blasted its way to the silver screens. The biggest international success of Norwegian film history resulted in a small nation moving on to independent story-telling. In 2009, Nils Gaup was granted the Skábmagovat Award for the work he had done for the Sámi Film and Sámi young people.

Pathfinder (Ofelaš)
Norway, 1987, 86 min.
Director: Nils Gaup
Production: Filmkameratene AS, Norsk Film AS.
Languages: North Sámi; subtitles: English
The pathfinder of Sámi film and a candidate for the Oscar Award is based on an old Sámi legend. Upon returning from the fells, the young boy Áigin witnesses a cruel party of Chudes that have invaded Sápmi kill his family. The other Sámi of the community escape to the coast of the Arctic Ocean. Áigin, who is blinded by revenge, is forced to show the enemies a road across the dangerous fell tops.

21.00 SEVEN FIRES IN THE SNOW THEATRE / Northern Lights Theatre
An Indigenous film night at the snow theatre – no matter how cold it is.

The Path Without End
USA, 2011, 6 min.
Director/Producer: Elizabeth Lameman
Languages: -
Anishinaabe stories on the people of the Moon become alive in this experimental film by a young director. The Cree cellist Cris Derksen gives a dark tone to the animation.

White Washed
Canada, 2011, 3 min.
Director: Caytlyn Isham
Production: In Progress
Languages: English
A poetic video about skin privilege, cultural identity and what it means to be Anishinaabe as experienced from the heart.

The Peace of the Lemmings (Kozzsäpligijrávhu) (world premiere)
Finland, 2011, 4 min.
Director: Suvi Kivelä
Production: Inari Sámi Language Society
Languages: Inari Sámi; subtitles: Finnish
The Norway lemming is a protected but not a peaceful rodent living in the Arctic. It defends itself fiercely against those who are bigger, and sets every now and then out on migrations. The short film written and played by children who speak Inari Sámi tells why lemmings begin to move and what happens then. The film has been made in a three-day workshop of the Inari Sámi Language Society with financing from the Finnish Cultural Foundation in the summer of 2011.

I Am Anishinaabe
USA, 2009, 4 min.
Director: Savannah Parisien, 8 years
Producer: In Progress and Nett Lake School
Languages: English
A portrait of a girl from the Bois Fort Reservation in Minnesota whose strong sense of identity comes from tribe and family. Stock footage from the 1940’s, combined with family photos and video, shows how the traditions of her small village continue.

Life in the Seventh Prophecy
USA, 2009, 7 min.
Director: Collectively directed
Producer: In Progress and Red Lake High School-Project Preserve
Languages: English
A story of the seven fires and the role of the present generation in bringing positive change to the Anishinaabe people. Young people find in the Anishinaabe prophecies a guide to a better future for their people.

Sámi Moment (Sámi boddu)
Norway, 2011, 6 min.
Director: Ken Are Bongo
Producer: Kautokeino Film AS
Languages: North Sámi; subtitles: English
Two reindeer herders meet on a small hill in the highland area. A story about the need for company without necessarily saying much, about friction between two herding units, and about an embarrassing silence.

Mon, Mollet ja don
Sweden, 2011, 5 min.
Director: Per-Josef Idivuoma
Producer: IdiStudios
Languages: North Sámi
Sámi rock with a heavy attitude.

22.00 SkábmaFun at Hotelli Inari

SATURDAY 28.1.

09.00 ASLAK PIESKI EXPERIENCE / Sajos
Rádjá
Slovakia/Finland, 2011, 20 min.
Director: Lukas Palatinus
Screenwriter: Lukas Palatinus, AslakPieski
Producer: Academy of Arts
Languages: Finnish; subtitles: English
Aslak Pieski, an elderly man, lives 400 kilometres north of the Arctic Circle, reflecting on the course of life. He has lost something he held very dear, and tries now to get over the loss. An unexpected trip to the Arctic Circle gives him a warm recollection of the past.

10.00 SÁMI FILM 25 YEARS: JOHS. KALVEMO I / Sajos
Anne Kirste Aikio, who has made her master’s thesis on Johannes Edvard Kalvemo (62), guides the audience into the world and rhetoric of Kalvemo. Kalvemo was granted the first Skábmagovat Award in 2003 for his work for the Sámi TV documentary.

The Sámi: A Bait for Luring Tourists (Sámit turisteaseaktin)
Norja, 1986,
Director: Johs. Kalvemo
Tuottaja: NRK / Sámi Radio
Language: North Sámi

Unto Dust Shalt Thou Return (Adja oaiveskalzu)
Norway, 1999
Director: Johs. Kalvemo
Production: NRK / Sámi Radio
Languages: North Sámi; subtitles: English
It is now 160 years since the Kautokeino uprising. This rebellion is known to be the only violent conflict that the Sámi have engaged in, and it resulted in the execution of two Sámi men: Mons Somby and Aslak Hætta. The skeletons of the men were taken to the showcases of the Anatomical Institute in Oslo. Were the men ordinary killers or national heroes?

12.00 TAIWAN II: TRIBAL HEARTBEATS / Siida
Tribal Heartbeats: Tsou Fish Story
Taiwan, 2010, 19 min.
Director: Kao Chichang
Producer: Yang Kuangpyao / TITV
Languages: Tsou; subtitles: English
Traditions are still alive in Tsou fishing villages in the director’s home region on the Alishan Mountains. But globalization and a new set of values are at the door. The old fishing culture must be redefined. Saving the threatened carp becomes the symbol of life on the river. In the end, this scenic film turned into a commemorative picture: soon after its release, a typhoon destroyed the river and the area seen on the film.

A Kuroshio Love Story
Taiwan, 2009, 52 min.
Director: Maraos
Producer: Taiwan Indigenous TV
Languages: Tao; subtitles: English
For hundreds of years, the warm Kuroshio Stream has been a connection between the Lanyu of Taiwan and the Batanes Islands of the Philippines. The Pacific Ocean, typhoons and rains have given a rhythm to the traditional way of life. This warm documentary by a Tao director reflects on the changes on Lanyo, following a couple who go to visit the wife’s home island on the Batanes where she once had to leave her daughter. Set against the backdrop of a modest fishing village, this romantic tale embraces the importance of tradition, while celebrating the strength and resilience that only true love can nurture.

14.00 PHILIPPINES: PALAWAN FATE / Siida
Busong
The Philippines, 2011, 93 min.
Director: Kanakan Balintagos
Producer: Solito Arts Production
Languages: Palawano, Tagalog; subtitles: English
Angkadang is carrying his wounded sister Punay through the scenic island of Palawan. The girl cannot put her feet on the ground, so the siblings are in search of a healer. On the way, they meet three people: a woman who is looking for her husband, a man who has lost his son, and an adolescent who is searching for himself. They all find their own “busongs”. A “busong” is the view of the Palawan on destiny: Nature immediately reacts if people behave themselves with no respect. This film – the first one made by the Palawan – is the spiritual return of the director, born in Manila, to his roots.

16.00 SÁMI FILM 25 YEARS: NEW GENERATION / Sajos
Tämän päivän soihdunkantajat tarjoavat uutta saamelaista elokuvatuotantoa.

The Yoiking Hand (Juoigangiehta)
Norway, 2011, 5 min.
Director: Elle Sofe Henriksen
Producer: Kautokeino Film AS
Languages: North Sámi; subtitles: English
A dance film features the unrehearsed and natural movements of three traditional Sámi yoikers.

Half This, Half That (Halvt ditt, halvt datt)
Norway, 2011, 25 min.
Director: Marja Bål Nango
Producer: Nordland College of Art and Film
Languages: North Sámi, Norwegian; subtitles: English
The film-maker wants her future children to be Sámi both from their maternal and paternal lineage. Why? Is it so bad being “half this and half that”? Through interviews of six young people that are, each in their own way, part of two cultures, she reflects on what being multicultural means.

Successfully Lucky Day (for a Sámi) (world premiere)
Sweden, 2011, 5 min.
Director: Per-Josef Idivuoma
Producer: IdiStudios
Languages: Swedish; subtitles: English
A young man decides to save his day by robbing a café. But he is Sámi, so things don’t go quite as he has planned.

01:25.3
Norway, 2011, 2 min.
Director: Marja Nål Nango, Daniel Bianchini, Vidar Wikran
Producer: Nordland College of Art and Film
Languages: -
An 8-mm experimental film – which has later been digitalized – on man and his lifespan.

The Abstract Ones (Ábstrávttahasát)
Norway, 2011, 5 min.
Director: Marja Bål Nango
Producer: Nordland College of Art and Film
Languages: North Sámi; subtitles: English
A woman is having a nice time looking at art in a gallery when a blind man falls in with her, starting a conversation.

365 Days
Norway, 2011, 19 min.
Director: Lemet Ailo Holmestrand
Producer: Finnmark University College / Media Production Institute
Languages: Norwegian, English, North Sámi; subtitles: English
Sammol Nystad from Karasjok decides to restrain from using money for a year, but makes during the same period a trip from Gibraltar to Karasjok, Northern Norway. He wants to find out whether one can travel without money in a world that depends on money.

Anders Forsdahl’s Curve
Norway, 2011, 15 min.
Director: Ellen-Astri Lundby
Producer: Ellen-Astri Lundby / University of Tromsø
Languages: Norwegian, Finnish; subtitles: English
Anders Forsdahl (1930–2006) worked as a district doctor in South Varanger from 1962 to 1973 snd, later, as a researcher and professor at the University of Tromsø. He investigated the reasons for the high mortality in Finnmark, and he was the first one to prove that poor living conditions can cause high mortality in later life. His former patients from the Kven villages of Bygøynes and Pasvik reminisce about their doctor.

16.00 CANADA: STORIES FROM A DOOMED RIVER / Siida
Last Song
Canada, 2010, 4 min.
Director: Zoe Leigh Hopkins
Producer: Big Soul Productions
Languages: English
In this music video by a Heiltsuk/Mohawk director, Kristi Lane Sinclair sings a ballad about lost love in the bare surroundings of New Mexico on the way from the dark to the light.

Down the Mighty River
Canada, 2010, 3 x 22 min.
Director: Ernest Webb, Lisa M. Roth
Producer: Rezolution Pictures
Languages: Cree, English; subtitles: English
The magnificent Rupert River is living its last summer. Soon, the huge dam of Hydro-Québec will make the river run north instead of west. Life and the natural environment by the river will change radically. The Cree director Ernest Webb, who witnessed the launching of hydro-electric construction works 30 years ago, sets out to look for the story of the river from the depths of culture, science and history. He finds a nation that was earlier united in their resistance to the harnessing of the river. Lately, they have been split by the hope of getting compensations and jobs. At the same time, a group of traditional canoeists paddle the river, searching the healing stream for relief for their personal problems. Skábmagovat presents the first two parts and the last part of this six-part series.

18.00 GARRABOJÁ EXPERIENCE / Northern Lights Theatre
“Don’t Sorrow My Man!” The wild videos of Wimme Saari for the first time on our impressive snow screen! Wimme is a well-known Sámi yoiker and musician, who has taken the traditional yoik music in new, modern directions. This time, we meet him as a video artist of the YouTube times.

19.00 TREASURES FROM THE ARCHIVES: THE WHITE REINDEER, 60th ANNIVERSARY / Sajos
The White Reindeer (Valkoinen Peura)
Finland, 1952, 68 min.
Director: Erik Blomberg
Producer: Junior-FilmiOy
Languages: Finnish; subtitles: ??
Erik Blomberg’s “witch” classic has its 60th anniversary. Pirita (acted by Mirjami Kuosmanen), the frustrated wife of a reindeer herder, asks help from a Sámi shaman, who advises her to make a sacrifice to a sieidi. For full moon, the spell transforms her into a white reindeer that no man can resist – until the magic turns into an irreversible curse. And the men of the village begin to forge their spears…

19.00 TAIWAN I: STORIES OF HEALING (RERUN) / Siida
Pislahi – Prayer Song
Taiwan, 2011, 26 min.
Director: Wen-heng Lin
Production: TITV
Languages: Bunun, Japanese; subtitles: English
A young woman who is doing a research on the Bunun nation comes back from the city to meet her friend. They recall a sad story of many songs about a doctor, who was sent to the island during the Japanese occupation in the 1930s to fight malaria. Some Bunun had been forced to move from the mountains to a valley where they had no resistance to diseases. With a young nurse, the doctor starts an arduous battle against the authorities.

21.00 INDIGENOUS PEOPLES IN THE NIGHT / Northern Lights Theatre
Small films from the big world under the wide sky, no matter how cold it is – and together with Helsinki: from the Northern Lights Theatre of Inari, we will have a direct connection to Annantalo in the centre of the capital of Finland!

Pow.Wow.Wow.
Canada, 2011, 4 min.
Director: Lisa Jackson
Producer: Big Soul Productions
Languages: -
An energetic video by an Anishinaabe director in which traditional dancing blends with modern Celtic rhythms in space.

A Mother's Dream
Canada, 2007, 6 min.
Director: Cherilyn Papatie
Production: Wapikoni Mobile
Languages: Algonquin, French; subtitles: English
A mother comes to visit her little son together with her grandmother. The joy or reunion is great but passes quickly.

Tual baarun tuharui
Russia, 2010, 4 min.
Director: Sergei Potapov
Production: Sinema Tšentr
Languages: Saha
A four-minute “throat rock” summary of the film While the Wind Blows by Sergei Potapov.

Eahparaš – Dead Soon After Birth
Norway, 2011, 7 min.
Director: Anne Merete Gaup
Producer: Kautokeino Film AS
Languages: North Sámi; subtitles: English
Eahparaš, a dangerous spirit of a dead newborn child, haunts people and wants to be baptized and given a name.

The City
Canada, 2007, 7 min.
Director: Abraham Cote
Production: Wapikoni Mobile
Languages: English
An adolescent is sitting by a rapids, when he suddenly realizes that something strange is going on.

Sisters of the Jingle Dress
USA, 2009, 3 min.
Director: Kaya Membreño, 8 years
Producer: In Progress and Nett Lake School
Languages: English
Two sisters carry great love for the jingle dress and it’s meaning, as well as for the tradition that has been handed down to them.

Leivänmuruseni
Finland, 2011, 3 min.
Director: Oskari Sipola
Producer: Tarinatalo
Languages: North Sámi; subtitles: Finnish
The Sámi YouTube hit rearranges the ingredients of the hit by Jenni Vartiainen into a new order on the fell Ailigas in Utsjoki, with Anne Kirste Aikio and Suvi West as the rearrangers in wet reindeer fur leggings.

22.00 SKÁBMAGOVAT EVENING.

SUNDAY 29.1.

09.00 SÁMI EDUCATION INSTITUTE: WAKE UP, MIGRATORY BIRDS! / Sajos
New films produced by the Media Course of the Sámi Education Institute SOGSAKK in Inari in 2011.

A Migratory Bird (Muuttolintu)
Finland, 2011, 10 min.
Director: Pia Mikkilä
Languages: Finnish
A documentary on the artist Mirja Ranttila, who has moved back to the area where she was born.

The Awakening (Herääminen)
Finland, 2011, 6 min.
Director: Matti Kukkola
A man reflects on his thoughts on alcohol.

Twinkle (Tuike)
Finland, 2011, 2 min.
Director: Vilma Rautakangas
Languages: English
A short fairy tale film about siblings.

10.00 WET REINDEER FUR LEGGINGS SPECIAL / Sajos
This spring, the Finnish broadcasting company YLE (TV2) broadcasts an 8-part entertainment series called Märät säpikkäät (“Wet Reindeer Fur Leggings”) created by Anne Kirste Aikio and Suvi West. The series is meant for young people, and a song video from it – a parody of a Finnish hit – has had tens of thousands of viewers on YouTube in a short time. Aikio and West will tell us what their show is all about; they will also show us the pilot part which was used for selling the idea to YLE. Fasten your seat belts!
Languages: North Sámi, Finnish; subtitles: Finnish

12.00 CANADA: SHAKESPEARE GOES INNU / Siida
Mesnak
Canada, 2011, 96 min.
Director: Yves Sioui Durand
Producer: Les Films de l’Isle & Kunakan Productions
Languages: French, Innu; subtitles: English
After getting a puzzling message from his biological mother, Dave returns from Montreal to the reservation from which he was adopted at the age of three. Instead of a happy reunion, Dave finds himself caught in a web of secrets, lies and past choices; this puts his identity to the test. An intensive film by Yves Sioui Durand, a Huron director, set in an Innu community in Quebec. The work is an adaptation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet but based on a play written by Durand. From 1984 on, Durand has been creating theatre that is based on indigenous traditions.

14.00 SÁMI FILM 25 YEARS: JOHS. KALVEMO II / Sajos
The Fear of Those with No Bounds (Ciegus ballu)
Norway, 2002, 28 min.
Director: Johs. Kalvemo
Production: NRK / Sámi Radio
Languages: Norwegian, North Sámi; subtitles: English
Until 1990’s, the Norwegian security police surveilled many Sámi leaders and activists whom they suspected of being left-wing extremists. Could signs of separatist tendencies be found? When Johs. Kalvemo began to look at the issue, he found out that he, too, had been under surveillance from 1977 to 1992.

Wind in My Heart (Váimmustan lea biegga)
Norway, 2002, 30 min.
Director: Johs. Kalvemo, John Erling Utsi
Production: NRK / Sámi Radio & SVT Sápmi
Languages: North Sámi, English, Norwegian; subtitles: Finnish, English
A commemorative program on Sámi artist and cultural ambassador Nils-Aslak Valkeapää (1943-2001). Valkeapää, the generator of the Sámi cultural renaissance that began in the 1960s, left a strong imprint on music, literature and art, as well as on indigenous cooperation.

14.00 BRAZIL: THE MEMORY OF IMAGES (RERUN) / Siida
Divino Tserewahú from the nation Xavante is one of the most prominent directors trained by the Video in the Villages project that works with aboriginal communities in Brazil. In these two films, Tserewahú maps the history, the traditions and the pressures of change in his home region.

16.00 SOUNDS FROM SAHA & CANADA (RERUN) / Siida
The Gathering
Canada, 2010, 22 min.
Director: Tewanee Joseph
Producer: Hyphen Communications
Languages: English
The Olympic Games provide a prominent forum for reminding the world of the existence of indigenous peoples. From all around Canada, 350 young people were given this chance at the opening ceremony of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games. For the young people, the trip to Vancouver was important in many ways.