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11.00

A colourful film palette of the Wapikoni Mobile on the First Nations communities of the Quebec area. Representatives from the project attend the show.

Kamitshikaut
Canada, 2007, 4’
The Innu singer Shaushiss Fontaine sings about the dangers of drugs.
Director: Shaushiss Fontaine
Producer: Wapikoni Mobile
Language: Innu, subt. English

The Water Lover
Canada, 2008, 4’
A beautiful commemorative film for a friend, who loved water so much that, one day, she disappeared in it.
Director: Délla Gunn, Sonia Brazeau, Frank Penosway, Bradley Brazeau, Gracy Brazeau
Language: Algonquin, subt. English
Producer: Wapikoni Mobile

Anikinis (The Trappers)
Canada, 2008, 6’
The Poucachiche family has trapped beavers for generations. It is one of the traditions that still guide the yearly cycle of the Algonquin of Lac Simon.
Director: Lennon Poucachiche
Producer: Wapikoni Mobile
Language: Algonquin, subt. English

Netshishkatutau (The Encounter)
Canada, 2008, 3’
An animation, in which an elder tells about an encounter between Sept-Îles and Caniaspiscau in a cold winter night.
Director: Marie-Ève Aster
Producer: Wapikoni Mobile
Language: Innu, subt. English

Alone in the Abyss
Canada, 2008
Drugs insidiously enter your life and you end up in the abyss. Yet, life goes on.
Director: Claudie Ottawa
Producer: Wapikoni Mobile
Language: French, subt. English

Masko nimiwin (The Bear’s Dance)
Canada, 2008, 6’
When Gilles Moar saw a bear dance, he found a new way of passing down his culture to his daughter and the young people of his community.
Director: Marie-Christine Peliquay
Producer: Wapikoni Mobile
Language: Atikamekw, subt. English

Something Right
Canada, 2008
Daniel lost the guardianship of his children, but he paints passionately, so that his daughter can say: ”My father is an artist.”
Director: Tracy McLaren (Algonquian)
Producer: Wapikoni Mobile
Language: English

Innu-Aimun (The Innu Language)
Canada, 2008, 4’
The Innu musician Uasstushkuau sings about the meaning of retaining the language and traditions.
Director: Carl Grégoire, Spencer St-Onge
Producer: Wapikoni Mobile
Language: Innu, subt. English

Tshitashun (Number)
Canada, 2008, 3’
A funny attempt to find out which word to use for a thing that there is no word for.
Director: James Picard
Producer: Wapikoni Mobile
Language: Innu, subt. English

Two and Two
Canada, 2008, 3’
You read the newspaper or use the copying machine – and a tree falls. As a result of every ordinary day, a forest disappears.
Director: Abraham Cote
Producer: Wapikoni Mobile
Language: Algonquin, subt. English

Ka unian uass (The Missing Child)
Canada, 2008
One day, the friend of a child simply disappeared…
Director: Tshivetin Vollant
Producer: Wapikoni Mobile
Language: Innu, subt. English

Kir otcintcotco… (For my Mom…)
Canada, 2008, 4’
A personal film about a daughter who has moved to the city. After going through an identity crisis, she tries to find again the connection to her mother.
Director: Mariana Niquay-Ottawa
Producer: Wapikoni Mobile
Language: French, subt. English

Encore vivants (Still Alive)
Canada, 2008, 5’
Surrounded by a depleted forest, young tree planters mourn the loss of their Algonquin identity.
Director: Cherilyn Papatie
Producer: Wapikoni Mobile
Language: French, subt. English

Worlds Apart
Canada, 2008, 3’
Kevin Papatie’s quest for identity emerges in an experimental film, in which a bold visual choreography moves from nature to the city.
Director: Kevin Papatie
Producer: Wapikoni Mobile
Language: Algonquin, subt. English

From Kitcisakik to Xingù
Canada, 2008, 6’
The Anishinabe director Evelyne Papatie visits the Ikepeng people in the forests of Mato Grosso in Brazil. The rites and customs of her distant brothers rekindle her pride in her own identity.
Director: Evelyne Papatie
Producer: Wapikoni Mobile
Language: French, subt. English

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Gáddái bálkestuvvon (Thrown on land)
Norway, 2009, 45’
A conflict on fishing rights washes the Sea Sámi coast. With the blessing of the state of Norway, the big fishing vessels took the fishing rights of the Sea Sámi in the fjords 25 years ago. If the Sámi want to have their fishing quotas back, they have to buy them. The documentary, which has led to heated discussion in Norway, follows a young fisherman, who tries to earn his income from the sea but repeatedly runs into regulations.
Director: Harry Johansen
Producer: NRK
Language: Norwegian, Sámi

Äidin sanat (Mother’s Words)
Norway, 2009, 28’
When Alf Nilsen-Børsskog, 70, decided to write a novel in his native language, Kven, he faced a challenge unknown for Norwegian authors. He had to create a written language. Although the Kven language is a variety (or dialect) of Finnish, it is also a language of its own. The documentary follows the author’s efforts to find financing for the book. A critic compares him to the great European authors, but, in his homeland, he is almost unknown.
Director: Anstein Mikkelsen
Producer: Siivet AS
Language: Norwegian, Kven, subt. English

13.00

New indigenous short films from the Ural to New Zealand.

Tuia (Stitched)
New Zealand, 2008, 4’
Man and nature meet in the meditative and ambient video of the Maori singer Ariana Tikao.
Director: Louise Potiki Bryant

Child's Perception
Canada, 2008, 1’
A nostalgic tribute to the innocence of childhood.
D: Christiana Latham
L: English

Ivan and Ivan
Russia, 2009, 17’
This laconic, visual film follows the last workday that an Eveny boy and his grandfather with animals before the boy is taken off to a distant school – by an interesting means of transportation!
Director: Philipp Abryutin
Language: Russian, Eveny, subt. English

Nia's Melancholy
Australia, 2009, 11’
A beautiful story of Nia, a Yalanji girl from Northern Australia, who struggles for a new harmony after her sister has committed suicide. The background of the story is sad: the suicide figures of especially teenaged Aborigines are among the highest in the world. The director’s family, too, has gone through such a sad experience.
Director: S. F. Tusa
Language: English

Totem
Canada, 2009, 18’
An ironic film by a Cherokee director on a stubborn totem pole, which will not leave a quality art gallery alone. The opening day approaches, but, repeatedly, shop hands need to saw off parts of the statue, which keeps growing prouder and prouder.
Director: Thomas King
Producer: Big Soul Productions
Language: English

Prevention of Repeated Crimes
Russia, 2008, 22’
Based on an incident that took place in the USSR in 1946, this winter film of a Chukchi director tells the true story of what happened in Chukotka in the far east of the Soviet Union in 1946. A young Soviet officer of the Secret Police arrives at a reindeer herding camp to warn the people about escapees from a Gulag labour camp. He instructs the herders to either arrest or kill any escapees they might see. The results are unexpected.
Director: Philipp Abryutin
Language: Russian, Komi, subt. English

Millay Millay 1 (Butterfly)
Australia, 2009, 4’
The women who fish at Malkgulumbu gather to dance the traditional mulurra, when the singer Victor Hood appears and sings the butterfly love song. The film has been created in connection with film training in the isolated Beswick community, and it records the ancient dance of the Northern Territory which had not been danced for a long time before the shooting, as only few people know the dance today.
Director: Djilpin Media Crew, Tom E. Lewis
Producer: Djilpin Arts
Language: Mulurra (Rembarrnga)

Boxed In
Canada, 2009, 4’
A young women of mixed ancestry struggles with an Equal Opportunity form that requires her to respond to the dilemma: Ethnicity – Choose One.
Director: Shane Belcourt
Language: English

Ikwé
Canada, 2009, 5'
This experimental film weaves the story of one woman’s intimate thoughts with the teachings of her grandmother, the Moon, creating a surreal narrative experience that communicates the power of thoughts and personal reflection.
D/P: Caroline Monnet
L: Cree, French, subt. English

Lady Raven
Canada, 2008, 2’
A funky interpretation of an Aleut legend, which tells about the Raven and his one true love.
D: Christiana Latham
L: Subt. English

15.00

Qati qati (Susurros de Muerte / Whispers of Death)
Bolivia, 1998, 35’
A traditional story from the area of Carabuco by Lake Titicaca. A man pays a high price for giving up his belief in the presence of souls and spirits in the everyday life of the Aymara people.
Director: Reynaldo Yujra
Producer: CEFREC / CAIB
Language: Subt. English

Suma qamaña, sumak kausay, teko kavi (For a Better Life)
Bolivia, 2009, 55’
In Bolivia, a forceful movement for progressive change for the 36 indigenous nations of the country has emerged. Indian video makers document the path of indigenous people and peasants towards the drafting of a controversial constitution that recognizes indigenous autonomy and protects linguistic and cultural diversity.
Director: Plan Nacional Indígena Originario de Comunicación Audiovisual Colectivo
Producer: CEFREC / CAIB
Language: Spanish, several indigenous languages, subt. English

15.00

Films by the Media Course of the Sámi Education Institute from 2009.

Kultaa roskiksessa (Gold in a Trash Can)
Finland, 2009, 13’
Sammeli Morottaja is originally from Lake Sammuttijärvi but lives now in Tampere. He has collected bottles for 20 years. The money from the bottles is badly needeDirector: it is used for Inari Sámi language immersion.
Director: Heli Ahola
Producer: SAKK / Medialinja
Language: Finnish

Mahdollisuus (A Possibility)
Finland, 2009, 15’
What are the possibilities of a reindeer herder who has lost the fingers in his right hand?
Director: Anneli Lappalainen
Producer: SAKK / Medialinja
Language: Sámi, subt. Finnish

Eletään sitä pohjoisessakin (A Good Life in the North)
Finland, 2009, 8’
The everyday life of Juha Feodoroff, a Skolt Sámi from Sevettijärvi.
Director: Eeva Nykänen
Producer: SAKK / Medialinja
Language: Sámi, subt. Finnish

Pikku-Aaslakan touhukas maailma (The Busy World of Aaslak)
Finland, 2009, 7’
The life and daily activities of a two-year-old reindeer herder on a few late winter days.
Director: Mariann Aikio
Producer: SAKK / Medialinja
Language: Finnish

Eallima bárus (On the Wave of Life)
Finland, 2009, 8’
A long marriage comes to an end. How does Birit-Kirsti cope with the grief?
Director: Kirsti Länsman
Producer: SAKK / Medialinja
Language: Sámi, subt. Finnish

Vuomaselkä
Finland, 2009, 19’
The treat of everyday life: recalling the reindeer round-ups at Vuomaselkä.
Director: Päivi Magga
Producer: SAKK / Medialinja
Language: Finnish

Rivgut (Non-Sámi Women)
Finland, 2009, 10’
A humorous animation challenges our expectations of the meeting of Sámi and non-Sámi.
Director: Kauko Mustonen
Producer: SAKK / Medialinja
subt. Finnish

17.00

Mu biilla ja muhtin nieidda lávlu (My Car and the Song of a Girl)
Norway, 2009, 3’
Max Makchén’s music video.
Director: Ken Are Bongo
Language: Sámi

Min mors hemmelighet (Suddenly Sámi)
Norway, 2009, 52’
A story about how the City Sámi director returns to the land which her mother has wanted to forget. During Ellen-Astri Lundby’s childhood and youth in Oslo, her mother never told her about being Sámi. Now that her mother is becoming frail, the daughter decides to look for her northern roots and the reasons for her mother’s silence. But can she suddenly become Sámi? And does she want to?
Director: Ellen-Astri Lundby
Producer: Ellen Lundby Film & Media
Language: English, Norwegian, subt. Finnish

17.00

Kissed by Lightning
Canada, 2009, 90’
Mavis, who lives in the Six Nations Reservation, tries to overcome the tragic death of her husband. To hold on to the shreds of her past, she invites her husband’s ex-wife and son to live in her home and moves herself into the house at the back to paint her haunting memories. Only after Mavis makes a long trip to an exhibition far away, her grief starts to abate and she finds strength in her Mohawk culture.
Director: Shelley Niro
Language: English

18.00

Premieres free entrance.

18.30

Maan muisti (Earth Evocation)
Finland, 2009
The film is a 10,000-year-trip through Finland, from the Ice Age to the present. In their environment, people have left footprints, structures and tombs, which are interpreted by the people of today from the perspective of their own culture and world view. Earth Evocation is the interpretation of Markku Lehmuskallio and Anastasia Lapsui but also the interviewees – Finns and Sámi. It is an extremely cinematic and poetic trip through the common history of us people and the earth. In it, dreams, myths and the physical reality all stand on the same line.
Director/Screenwriter: Markku Lehmuskallio, Anastasia Lapsui
Producer: Giron-Filmi Oy
Language: Finnish, subt. English

18.30

Canada, 2009, 3x30'
Every second week, a language dies in the world. By the year 2100, half of the languages of the world have disappeared. Is this inevitable? Finding Our Talk, the documentary series of Muskheg Media, shows how indigenous peoples are facing this challenge. Skábmagovat presents three episodes of the series.

Bolivia

Bolivia’s Aymara youth are showing new pride in their culture by creating and performing songs, plays and poetry in their own language. The change has taken place in just a few years, and the fact that the president Evo Morales is an Aymara is one of the reasons for this. The indigenous voice has grown stronger in this country of 33 different languages.
Director: Felix Atencio-Gonzales
Producer: Mushkeg Media Inc.

Sámi

Despite past government policies of assimilation, Sámi still thrives in Norway, today more than ever. The Beaivváš Theatre, children’s radio programmes and music are clear signs of the power of the language in Kautokeino, where traditional reindeer herding still has a strong footing.
Director: Reaghan Tarbell
Producer: Mushkeg Media Inc.

Dancing With Language

Cinema has become an important weapon in the fight for the language. Indigenous film festivals show how dramatically the situation is changing: native languages, for example Cree and Muskogee, are now used quite naturally in film dialogues. The Cheyenne actor Wes Study tells that, in one film, he even spoke a language that was reconstructed on the basis of 17 remaining words of the language!
Director: Jeff Dorn
Producer: Mushkeg Media Inc.

21.00

A Sámi film night at the snow theatre – no matter how cold it is.

Árvas (Tundra of Árvas)
Sweden, 2009, 4’
In Sofia Jannok’s music video, a woman finds colourful company during her trip through the bare landscape of Northern Sweden.
Director: Liselotte Wajstedt
Producer: LittleBig Productions
Language: Sámi

Váimmugiella (My Hearts Voice)
Sweden, 2009, 14’
A personal first film of a young director on a father, a daughter and cultural insecurity. When Marit started school, she had to give up reindeer herding. She would like to continue her father’s livelihood, but times have changed. The disagreement has an influence on the relationship of the father and the daughter.
Director/Producer: Marit Kuhmunen
Language: Sámi, subt. English

Vuoiŋŋalaš cummá (The Spiritual Kiss)
Norway, 2009, 5’
Homosexualism has been a taboo in Sámi culture. The short film by a Sea Sámi director emphasizes that, in Finnmark, too, being different should be seen as a positive resource.
Director: Gjert Rognli
Language: English

The Girl who lost her dreams
2008, 6’
A girl who has lost her dreams sets out to find them.
Director: Ann Holmberg

22.30

SkábmaFun at Hotel Inari

09.00

The Cree director Neil Diamond and the artistic director of Skábmagovat, Jorma Lehtola, discuss the ”Injuns” and ”Lapps” of mainstream cinema.

10.30

Canada III: Indians from Hollywood

Lajeunesse - Raphaël: Tungijuq
(2009), 7’
A dazzlingly visual story on the transformation of a woman in the midst of an Arctic landscape, based on the Inuit seal-hunt. Starring Tanya Taqaq, an internationally famous throat-singer, and Zacharias Kunuk, the grand old man of Inuit cinema.
Director: Félix Lajeunesse, Paul Raphaël
Producer: Isuma Productions
http://www.imaginenative.org/filmpreview.php?id=250

Reel Injun
Canada, 2009, 75’
A hilarious trip of a Cree director into the Indian image of the dream factory of Hollywood. What kinds of images were there? How did the picture of Indians change on the way? What happened to real Indians in the machinery of the dream factory? The film interviews for example Indian activists and researchers, Clint Eastwood, Jim Jarmusch, and Sacheen Littlefeather, who was sent by Marlon Brando to the Oscar Gala in 1973 to tell that Brando refused to accept the award as a protest for the treatment of the Indian population. The director will attend the show.
Director: Neil Diamond
Producer: Rezolution Pictures /National Filmboard of Canada
Language: English, subt. Finnish

10.30

Films by the Media Course of the Sámi Education Institute from 2009.

Kultaa roskiksessa (Gold in a Trash Can)
Finland, 2009, 13’
Sammeli Morottaja is originally from Lake Sammuttijärvi but lives now in Tampere. He has collected bottles for 20 years. The money from the bottles is badly needeDirector: it is used for Inari Sámi language immersion.
Director: Heli Ahola
Producer: SAKK / Medialinja
Language: Finnish

Mahdollisuus (A Possibility)
Finland, 2009, 15’
What are the possibilities of a reindeer herder who has lost the fingers in his right hand?
Director: Anneli Lappalainen
Producer: SAKK / Medialinja
Language: Sámi, subt. Finnish

Eletään sitä pohjoisessakin (A Good Life in the North)
Finland, 2009, 8’
The everyday life of Juha Feodoroff, a Skolt Sámi from Sevettijärvi.
Director: Eeva Nykänen
Producer: SAKK / Medialinja
Language: Sámi, subt. Finnish

Pikku-Aaslakan touhukas maailma (The Busy World of Aaslak)
Finland, 2009, 7’
The life and daily activities of a two-year-old reindeer herder on a few late winter days.
Director: Mariann Aikio
Producer: SAKK / Medialinja
Language: Finnish

Eallima bárus (On the Wave of Life)
Finland, 2009, 8’
A long marriage comes to an end. How does Birit-Kirsti cope with the grief?
Director: Kirsti Länsman
Producer: SAKK / Medialinja
Language: Sámi, subt. Finnish

Vuomaselkä
Finland, 2009, 19’
The treat of everyday life: recalling the reindeer round-ups at Vuomaselkä.
Director: Päivi Magga
Producer: SAKK / Medialinja
Language: Finnish

Rivgut (Non-Sámi Women)
Finland, 2009, 10’
A humorous animation challenges our expectations of the meeting of Sámi and non-Sámi.
Director: Kauko Mustonen
Producer: SAKK / Medialinja
subt. Finnish

12.30

Čurte-Niillas
Norja, 2009, 2’
Čurte-Niillas, or Butt-Niillas, is the saviour of the Sámi, who wants to correct all the injustices of the Western world to the Sámi. He is similar to Batman and Superman, but, unfortunately he is Sámi – as things do not always go so smoothly for the Sámi.
Ohjaus/Käsikirjoitus: Per-Josef Idivuoma
Tuotanto: Per-Josef Idivuoma

Sámiid oaidnu, lahppon oaidnu (Sámi Vision, a Lost Vision)
Finland, 2009, 27'
Oula Näkkäläjärvi is a 70-year-old Sámi journalist, who still works in the Sámi Radio because it is his passion to maintain the Sámi language. In the documentary, he reflects on how it was to work when the Sámi Radio had just been "established", what Sámi co-operation means and how things have changed in the last four decades.
Director/Producer: Aslak Paltto
Language: Sámi, subt. English
ieli: saame
 
Märät säpikkäät (Wet Reindeer Fur Leggings)
Finnish, 2009, 30'
"A talk show which revolutionizes your world view and your prejudices – by consolidating them.” A pilot episode of a Sámi entertainment programme, in which Sámi harass the representatives of the dominant culture but also poke at their own pain spots. This turbocharged programme is meant for young people from 16 to 25 years, and it is led by the talent team Kirste Aikio and Suvi West. Not recommended for people with no sense of humour.
Working group: Kirste Aikio, Suvi West, Joonas Saari
Producer: Yle Sámi Radio (?)
Language: Sámi, subt. Finnish

12.30

Canada IV: Stories from Quebec, part 2

Land and Airwaves
Canada, 2006, 12’
A beautiful portrayal of a First Nation and a radio station which has replaced the traditional drum as the instrument which passes down knowledge and language in Attikamekw communities.
Director: Patrick Boivin, Alland Flamand
Production: Wapikoni Mobile
Languages: French, Attikamekw, subt. English

The Amendment
Canada, 2007, 5’
Four generations after the assimilation policy of the Canadian government was launched the Algonquin language is about to die in the Kitcisakik community.
Director: Kevin Papatie
Production: Wapikoni Mobile
Languages: Algonquin, subt. English

Kokom on the Move
Canada, 2006, 5’
Time stops in this story of the annual migration of the last nomadic people of Abitibi to Kitcisakik, “The Island of the Elder,” in Grand Lake Victoria, Quebec, where the grandfathers and grandmothers have met every summer for centuries.
Director: Evelyne Papatie & Vince Papatie
Production: Wapikoni Mobile
Languages: Subt. English

Night Runners
Canada 2007, 3’
No longer able to hunt their prey the way their ancestors did, the young Wemotaci have become night runners through the deserted village. And can they ever run! They run for fun or just to exhaust themselves – until the police go after them.
Director: Shanook Newashish
Production: Wapikoni Mobile
Languages: French, subt. English

The Old Man and the River
Canada, 2007, 5’
A young man follows his grandfather on a mysterious trip to the river in the animation of an Attikamek director.
Director: Steven Chilton
Production: Wapikoni Mobile
Languages: Attikamekw, subt. English

The Lost Children
Canada, 2007, 11’
The residential school syndrome is passed on from generation to generation. By speaking out, some of its victims help free themselves to recover their Atikamekw identity.
Director: Dalhya Newashish
Production: Wapikoni Mobile
Languages: Atikamekw, subt. English

Windigo: The Human Being
Canada, 2007, 7’
A mysterious old man has lessons to offer a suspicious community in this contemporary interpretation of the ancient legend of Windigo, an evil spirit of the forest who turns humans into cannibals.
Director: Jason Harper
Production: Wapikoni Mobile
Languages: Subt. English

Kick It Now
Canada,
Director: Louis-Philippe Moar
Production: Wapikoni Mobile
Languages: –

14.30

Bolivia II: Love which is Greater than Fear

Llanthupi munakuy (Loving Each Other in the Shadows)
Bolivia, 2001, 47’
The tragic story of Rosa and Juan, whom even death cannot separate. The story is based on the narrative tradition of CK’ochas, the community that the Quechua director comes from. The film is one of the first films written and directed by the women of the Andes.
Director: Marcelina Cárdenas
St: Aydeé Alvarez and Samuel Vedia Callamullo
Producer: CEFREC / CAIB / FECLT
Language: Quechua, subt. English

Venciendo el miedo (Conquering Fear)
Bolivia, 2004, 55’
A poor Aymara family leaves the highlands for the tropic to look for a better life. The husband forsakes his wife Manuela and his children, but Manuela does not give in. Eventually, she ends up as the leader of a women’s organization which fights for indigenous rights.
Director: María Morales
Producer: CEFREC / CAIB / FECLT
Language: Aymara, Spanish, subt. English

14.30

SÁMI IV:

Sommerfuglen i vinterland (A Summer Bird in the Land of the Winter) Premiere AUDITORIUM
Norway, 2010, 28’
A documentary on a Mexican stewardess, who comes to Lapland to see the northern lights and the mountain scenery of the children’s book Heidi. The beautiful lady ends up in the world of reindeer and huskies. Gradually, she gets to do everything, from using the lasso to slaughtering reindeer – with a sunny attitude.
Director: Nils-John Porsanger
Producer: NRK Sámi Radio
Language: English, Spanish, Sámi, subt. Finnish

Hotelstäderskan / The Chambermaid
Sweden, 2008, 23'
A young man arrives at a hotel on a small island. He meets an elderly woman, who works at the hotel as a chambermaid. It turns out that they have a common past and that they cope with it in different ways.
Director: Ann Holmgren
Producer: Den Norske Filmskolen / Åshild Ariane Ramborg
Language: Swedish, subt. English

Golbma hearggi ja okta ásodat (Three Reindeer and One Apartment)
Norway, 2009, 29'
Director: Wenche Marie Hætta
Producer: Bengt Roger Kåven
Language: Sámi, Norwegian

16.30

Guest Show: Intonations from the River Teno

Utsjoen Beckhamit (The Beckhams of Utsjoki) (World premiere)
Finland, 2009, 73’
“Sáminess...that’s me. I know where I belong and where I am.” A documentary that covers three years tells about the life of “the celebrity family” of Annukka Hirvasvuopio-Laiti, a cultural activist, and Niila Laiti, a reindeer herder and salmon fisher. Their everyday life in Utsjoki focuses on reindeer, the salmon and music. Niila’s mother Kirsti, 82, is a good gateway to Sámi heritage. The way of the family leads up to the fells, down to the bottom of the River Teno and – when it is time to give birth – far south.
Director/Screenwriter: Petteri Saario
Music: Vilddas, Annukka Hirvasvuopio-Laiti
Producer: DocArt / Tiina and Petteri Saario
Language: Finnish, Sámi, subt. English

www.utsjoenbeckhamit.net

16.30

Canada V: Strange and Scary Stories

Horse
Canada, 2009, 10’
An experimental video based on the live performance (2007) of Archer Pechawis, a Cree artist, on a talking horse who met General Custer and predicted how the world would one day change.
Director: Archer Pechawis
Language: English

Tsi tkahéhtayen (The Garden)
Canada, 2009, 12’
A gardener who harvests fruits seems to have an answer to everybody’s expectations for the future. But is it so?
Director: Zoe Leigh Hopkins
Language: Mohawk, subt. English

The Winter Chill
Canada, 2006, 25’
A modern interpretation of an old Cree story, which has been passed down from one generation to another. A young man makes reluctantly a trip to his father’s hunting grounds, only to run headlong into Pakaaskokan, a supernatural being that lives in the bush. The frightening encounter teaches the young man that there was far more in his father’s stories than he had ever realized.
Director: Paul M. Rickard
Starring: Dakota House and Glen Gould
Production: Achimist Films Inc.
Language: English, Cree, subt. English

The Visit
Canada, 2009, 3’
An animation on the meeting of a Cree family and extraterrestrial beings, based on events in real life.
Director: Lisa Jackson (animation Jody Kramer)
Producer: Selwyn Jacob
Language: English

Walk in the Forest
Canada, 2009, 4’
This whimsical animation reminiscent of NFB classics follows medicine man Walk-in-the-forest on a walk in woods that leads to the discovery of an intriguing secret world in the woods.
Director: Diane Obomsawin
Producer: Michael Fukushima

The Cave
Canada, 2009, 10’
A hunter on horseback accidentally discovers a cave, which leads him to a terrifying place in this film version of a true Tsilhqot’in story.
Director: Helen Haig-Brown
Language: Tsilhqot’in, subt. English

Liminality
USA, 2008, 13’
A young Indian man gets more than he has bargained for when he enters a reservation bar looking for help against a gang of vampire bikers.
Director: James Lujan
Screenwriter: Migizi Pensoneau
Language: English

18.00

Guest Show: request rerun

Wimme
Finland 2008, 30’
A request rerun from last year. A documentary on the Sámi musician Wimme Saari, who has combined traditional yoiking with ambient music and jazz as well as techno.
Director: Juha-Iisakki Koivisto
Producer: UniLumi

18.30

El grito de la selva (Cry of the Forest)
Bolivia, 2008, 95’
The first feature film of the Bolivian indigenous peoples is based on real life. A timber company starts logging in the Beni area. When the beautiful promises made to the Moxe village crumble and malpractice increases, the Indians decide to drive the company off their lands. This starts the time of violence, which gives rise to an indigenous rights movement. The march of the Indians to the capitol La Paz in 1996 and an agricultural reform grant indigenous peoples a title to their lands, but, as the film reminds us, freedom means continuous struggle and the defence of laws against, for example, corruption.
Director: Alejandro Noza, Nicolás Ipamo, Iván Sanjinés
Screenwriter: Moxeño Collective in Beni
Producer: CEFREC - CAIB / CPIB - CMID
Language: Spanish, subt. English

18.30

Canada VI: Back to Life

Gaza Square Dance
Canada, 2008, 2’
Energy, edge and a dash of punk rock are the ingredients in this recipe for non-complacency.
Producer: James Kinistino
Language: English

Moccasin Flats: Redemption
Canada, 2008, 97’
The drama film, which is based on a popular TV series, deals with broken dreams, the burden of the past, and hope. Red, an ex-junkie, returns from prison to Moccasin Flats, a community known as Canada's Worst Neighbourhood. In the midst of violent gang activity, Red tries to reconcile with his past with the help of a homeless child, his ex-girlfriend, and a quiet elder. The road to redemption is hard, and there is no salvation for Red until he faces up to his past.
Director: Rob King
Screenwriter: Laura J. Milliken and Rob King
Producer: Big Soul Productions Inc.
Language: English

21.00

Indians in the Night

A winter trip through the Americas, from the arctic expanses of Canada to the sunshine of Bolivia.

Wabak
Canada, 2006, 7’
In Algonquian, Wabak means "future." Wabak tells the story of the first Algonquian to be born. Sometimes encouraged by the Good, sometimes discouraged by the Evil, the young child questions if he should continue on his path.
Director: Kevin Papatie & Gilles Penosway
Production: Wapikoni Mobile
Languages: English, Algonquin

Shi-Shi-Etko
Canada, 2009, 12’
Shi-shi-etko has just four days left before she is taken off to a distant residential school. Her mother, father and grandmother remind her of the beauty of her culture, of who she is, and, above all, that she must never forget. Behind the story, which is based on a children’s book by Nicola Campbell, hover the shadows of the dark years of the Canadian school system. The language of the film, Halq'eméylem, is at present spoken by only a handful of people.
Director: Kate Kroll
Producer/Screenwriter: Marilyn Thomas
Language: Halq'eméylem, subt. English

Qulqi chaliku (Vest Made of Money)
Bolivia, 1999, 22’
A traditional Aymara narrative on two men and the greed for money. Satuco keeps all his money inside his vest that he does not even take off when he sleeps. When signs predict his death, he shares his secret with his neighbour Cihuocollo – with fatal consequences.
Director: Patricio Luna
Starring: Reynaldo Juyra, Jesús Tapia
Producer: CEFREC / CAIB
Language: Aymara, subt. English

Dancers of the Grass
Canada, 2009, 2’
A stunning display of stop motion animation, Dancers of the Grass vividly depicts the majesty of the hoop dance, a tradition symbolizing the unity of all nations.
Director: Melanie Jackson
Producer: Joe MacDonald

23.00

Skábmagovat Night at Hotel Kultahovi

10.00

SÁMI V: Penitence and Pastoral Care

Two requested religious broadcasts from the archives of the YLE Broadcasting Company, preceded by a new short film that has partly been shot at the Männikkö Service Houses in Ivalo.

Utsjoen diakonissa (Sister Eija: Caring for People)
Finland, 2009, 29’
In her work as a parish nurse, Eija Seppä from Utsjoki needs to care for people but also give up.
Suvi West
Producer: Ima Filbma- ja Sátneduodji, Yle TV1 Asiaohjelmat
Language: Sámi, subt. Finnish

Valoa vanhuksille (Light for Senior Citizens)
Finland, 2009, 6’
A documentary on making and interpreting art that has been shot at the Männikkö and Sofia Service Houses in Inari and Helsinki.
Director: Tiina Meling.
Language: Finnish

Juovlakirkust Ohcijogast (At a Christmas Service in Utsjoki)
Finland, 1973, 25’
A Sámi church service at Christmas in Utsjoki in 1973.
Director: Reidar Suomenrinne, Juhani Lihtonen
Producer: Yleisradio TV 1
Language: Finnish, Sámi

12.00

Canada VII: Vistas – Aboriginal Expressions

Thirteen different, almost speechless interpretations of the theme “nationhood” brought to you by 13 aboriginal filmmakers from across Canada. The series presents indigenous cinema to the Vancouver Olympic Games through the cultural programme of the games in February 2010.

Dancers of the Grass
Canada, 2009, 2’
A stunning display of stop motion animation, Dancers of the Grass vividly depicts the majesty of the hoop dance, a tradition symbolizing the unity of all nations.
Director: Melanie Jackson
Production: National Film Board of Canada / Animiki See Digital Productions
Language: –

Button Blanket
Canada, 2009, 4’
A short impressionist documentary looks at the creation of a Button Blanket by integrating the performance of a traditional dance with the art of the West coast Heiltsuk people.
Director: Zoe Leigh Hopkins
Production: NFB / Animiki See Digital Productions
Language: –

Crossing the Line
Canada, 2009, 3’
The politics and conflicts of a playground sandbox turn into an allegory for the way nations treat one another, and the borders seem to do more harm than good.
Director: Tracey Deer
Production: NFB / Animiki See Digital Productions
Language: –

Little Thunder
Canada, 2009, 3’
An animated short, inspired by the Mi'kmaq legend “The Stone Canoe”, explores aboriginal humour, following Little Thunder as he reluctantly leaves his family and sets out on a cross-country canoe trip to become a man.
Director: Nance Ackerman and Alan Syliboy
Production: NFB / Animiki See Digital Productions
Language: –

Carrying Fire
Canada, 2009. 4’
Weaving together animation and live action, the film tells the story of the fire of life in Aboriginal creation stories; a story that continues today.
Director: Marie Burke
Production: NFB / Animiki See Digital Productions
Language: –

Ignition
Canada, 2009, 4’
Experimental CG-animation evokes the experience of driving alone on an unlit rural road at night. Darkness is broken by the beam of headlights, creating dancing shadows that obfuscate that which lies beyond the road.
Director: Doug Smarch
Production: NFB / Animiki See Digital Productions
Language: –

The Visit
Canada, 2009, 3’
An animation on the meeting of a Cree family and extraterrestrial beings, based on events in real life.
Director: Lisa Jackson (animation Jody Kramer)
Production: NFB / Animiki See Digital Productions
Language: English

InukShop
Canada, 2009, 3’
An Inuit film-maker mixes archival and new footage to make a statement about the appropriation of his culture throughout history.
Director: Jobie Weetaluktuk
Production: NFB / Animiki See Digital Productions
Language: –

Red Ochre
Canada, 2009, 4’
Combining archival photos with new and found footage, Red Ochre is a personal, impressionistic rendering of growing up Mi’kmaq in Newfoundland, while living in a culture of denial.
Director: Jerry Evans
Production: NFB / Animiki See Digital Productions
Language: –

Boxed In
Canada, 2009, 4’
A young woman of mixed ancestry struggles with an Equal Opportunity form that requires her to respond to the dilemma: Ethnicity – Choose One.
Director: Shane Belcourt
Production: NFB / Animiki See Digital Productions
Language: English

Walk in the Forest
Canada, 2009, 4’
This whimsical animation reminiscent of NFB classics follows medicine man Walk-in-the-forest on a walk in woods that leads to the discovery of an intriguing secret world in the woods.
Director: Diane Obomsawin
Producer: NFB / Animiki See Digital Productions
Language: –

Trapper
Canada, 2009, 3’
A beautiful short film captures the quiet dignity of a day in the life of a Northern trapper.
Director: Shannon Letandre
Production: NFB / Animiki See Digital Productions
Language: –

Wave a Red Flag
Canada, 2009, 5’
On her way to school, a teenage girl’s display of Native pride sparks a celebration of community and culture.
Director: Adam Garnet Jones
Production: NFB / Animiki See Digital Productions
Language: –

12.00

Indigenous I: Voices from the Fringes of the World (rerun)

New indigenous short films from the Ural to New Zealand

Tuia (Stitched)
New Zealand, 2008, 4’
Man and nature meet in the meditative and ambient video of the Maori singer Ariana Tikao.
Director: Louise Potiki Bryant

Child's Perception
Canada, 2008, 1’
A nostalgic tribute to the innocence of childhood.
D: Christiana Latham
L: English

Ivan and Ivan
Russia, 2009, 17’
This laconic, visual film follows the last workday that an Eveny boy and his grandfather with animals before the boy is taken off to a distant school – by an interesting means of transportation!
Director: Philipp Abryutin
Language: Russian, Eveny, subt. English

Nia's Melancholy
Australia, 2009, 11’
A beautiful story of Nia, a Yalanji girl from Northern Australia, who struggles for a new harmony after her sister has committed suicide. The background of the story is saDirector: the suicide figures of especially teenaged Aborigines are among the highest in the world. The director’s family, too, has gone through such a sad experience.
Director: S. F. Tusa
Language: English

Totem
Canada, 2009, 18’
An ironic film by a Cherokee director on a stubborn totem pole, which will not leave a quality art gallery alone. The opening day approaches, but, repeatedly, shop hands need to saw off parts of the statue, which keeps growing prouder and prouder.
Director: Thomas King
Producer: Big Soul Productions
Language: English

Prevention of Repeated Crimes
Russia, 2008, 22’
Based on an incident that took place in the USSR in 1946, this winter film of a Chukchi director tells the true story of what happened in Chukotka in the Soviet Union in 1946. A young Soviet officer of the Secret Police arrives at a reindeer herding camp to warn the people about escapees from a Gulag labour camp. He instructs the herders to either arrest or kill any escapees they might see. The results are unexpected.
Director: Philipp Abryutin
Language: Russian, Komi, subt. English

Millay Millay 1 (Butterfly)
Australia, 2009, 4’
The women who fish at Malkgulumbu gather to dance the traditional mulurra, when the singer Victor Hood appears and sings the butterfly love song. The film has been created in connection with film training in the isolated Beswick community, and it records the ancient dance of the Northern Territory which had not been danced for a long time before the shooting, as only few people know the dance today.
Director: Djilpin Media Crew, Tom E. Lewis
Producer: Djilpin Arts
Language: Mulurra (Rembarrnga)

Boxed In
Canada, 2009, 4’
A young women of mixed ancestry struggles with an Equal Opportunity form that requires her to respond to the dilemma: Ethnicity – Choose One.
Director: Shane Belcourt
Language: English

Ikwé
Canada, 2009, 5'
This experimental film weaves the story of one woman’s intimate thoughts with the teachings of her grandmother, the Moon, creating a surreal narrative experience that communicates the power of thoughts and personal reflection.
D/P: Caroline Monnet
L: Cree, French, subt. English

Lady Raven
Canada, 2008, 2’
A funky interpretation of an Aleut legend, which tells about the Raven and his one true love.
D: Christiana Latham
L: Subt. English

14.00

Canada III: Indians from Hollywood (rerun)

Lajeunesse - Raphaël: Tungijuq
(2009), 7’
A dazzlingly visual story on the transformation of a woman in the midst of an Arctic landscape, based on the Inuit seal-hunt. Starring Tanya Taqaq, an internationally famous throat-singer, and Zacharias Kunuk, the grand old man of Inuit cinema.
Director: Félix Lajeunesse, Paul Raphaël
Producer: Isuma Productions
http://www.imaginenative.org/filmpreview.php?id=250

Reel Injun
Canada, 2009, 75’
A hilarious trip of a Cree director into the Indian image of the dream factory of Hollywood. What kinds of images were there? How did the picture of Indians change on the way? What happened to real Indians in the machinery of the dream factory? The film interviews for example Indian activists and researchers, Clint Eastwood, Jim Jarmusch, and Sacheen Littlefeather, who was sent by Marlon Brando to the Oscar Gala in 1973 to tell that Brando refused to accept the award as a protest for the treatment of the Indian population. The director will attend the show.
Director: Neil Diamond
Producer: Rezolution Pictures / National Filmboard of Canada
Language: English, subt. Finnish

14.00

Sámi III: Premier (rerun)

Čurte-Niillas
Norja, 2009, 2’
Čurte-Niillas, or Butt-Niillas, is the saviour of the Sámi, who wants to correct all the injustices of the Western world to the Sámi. He is similar to Batman and Superman, but, unfortunately he is Sámi – as things do not always go so smoothly for the Sámi.
Director/Producer: Per-Josef Idivuoma
Producer: Per-Josef Idivuoma
Language: Sámi

Sámiid oaidnu, lahppon oaidnu (Sámi Vision, a Lost Vision)
Finland, 2009, 27'
Oula Näkkäläjärvi is a 70-year-old Sámi journalist, who still works in the Sámi Radio because it is his passion to maintain the Sámi language. In the documentary, he reflects on how it was to work when the Sámi Radio had just been "established", what Sámi co-operation means and how things have changed in the last four decades.
Director/Producer: Aslak Paltto
Language: Sámi, subt. English
 
Märät säpikkäät (Wet Reindeer Fur Leggings)
Finnish, 2009, 30'
"A talk show which revolutionizes your world view and your prejudices – by consolidating them.” A pilot episode of a Sámi entertainment programme, in which Sámi harass the representatives of the dominant culture but also poke at their own pain spots. This turbocharged programme is meant for young people from 16 to 25 years, and it is led by the talent team Kirste Aikio and Suvi West. Not recommended for people with no sense of humour.
Working group: Kirste Aikio, Suvi West, Joonas Saari
Producer: Yle Sámi Radio (?)
Language: Sámi, subt. Finnish

16.00

SÀMI IV: (rerun)

Sommerfuglen i vinterland (A Summer Bird in the Land of the Winter)
Norway, 2010, 28’
A documentary on a Mexican stewardess, who comes to Lapland to see the northern lights and the mountain scenery of the children’s book Heidi. The beautiful lady ends up in the world of reindeer and huskies. Gradually, she gets to do everything, from using the lasso to slaughtering reindeer – with a sunny attitude.
Director: Nils-John Porsanger
Producer: NRK Sámi Radio
Language: English, Spanish, Sámi, subt. Finnish

Hotelstäderskan / The Chambermaid
Sweden, 2008, 23'
A young man arrives at a hotel on a small island. He meets an elderly woman, who works at the hotel as a chambermaid. It turns out that they have a common past and that they cope with it in different ways.
Director: Ann Holmgren
Producer: Den Norske Filmskolen / Åshild Ariane Ramborg
Language: Swedish, subt. English

Golbma hearggi ja okta ásodat (Three Reindeer and One Apartment)
Norway, 2009, 29'
Director: Wenche Marie Hætta
Producer: Bengt Roger Kåven
Language: Sámi, Norwegian

16.00

Gáddái bálkestuvvon (Thrown on land)
Norway, 2009, 45’
A conflict on fishing rights washes the Sea Sámi coast. With the blessing of the state of Norway, the big fishing vessels took the fishing rights of the Sea Sámi in the fjords 25 years ago. If the Sámi want to have their fishing quotas back, they have to buy them. The documentary, which has led to heated discussion in Norway, follows a young fisherman, who tries to earn his income from the sea but repeatedly runs into regulations.
Director: Harry Johansen
Producer: NRK
Language: Norwegian, Sámi

Äidin sanat (Mother’s Words)
Norway, 2009, 28’
When Alf Nilsen-Børsskog, 70, decided to write a novel in his native language, Kven, he faced a challenge unknown for Norwegian authors. He had to create a written language. Although the Kven language is a variety (or dialect) of Finnish, it is also a language of its own. The documentary follows the author’s efforts to find financing for the book. A critic compares him to the great European authors, but, in his homeland, he is almost unknown.
Director: Anstein Mikkelsen
Producer: Siivet AS
Language: Norwegian, Kven, subt. English

18.00

SÁMI II: Sámi II: Back to the North

Mu biilla ja muhtin nieidda lávlu (My Car and the Song of a Girl)
Norway, 2009, 3’
Max Makchén’s music video.
Director: Ken Are Bongo
Language: Sámi

Min mors hemmelighet (Suddenly Sámi)
Norway, 2009, 52’
A story about how the City Sámi director returns to the land which her mother has wanted to forget. During Ellen-Astri Lundby’s childhood and youth in Oslo, her mother never told her about being Sámi. Now that her mother is becoming frail, the daughter decides to look for her northern roots and the reasons for her mother’s silence. But can she suddenly become Sámi? And does she want to?
Director: Ellen-Astri Lundby
Producer: Ellen Lundby Film & Media
Language: English, Norwegian, subt. Finnish

18.00

Guest Show: Intonations from the River Teno

Utsjoen Beckhamit (The Beckhams of Utsjoki) (rerunn)
Finland, 2009, 73’
“Sáminess...that’s me. I know where I belong and where I am.” A documentary that covers three years tells about the life of “the celebrity family” of Annukka Hirvasvuopio-Laiti, a cultural activist, and Niila Laiti, a reindeer herder and salmon fisher. Their everyday life in Utsjoki focuses on reindeer, the salmon and music. Niila’s mother Kirsti, 82, is a good gateway to Sámi heritage. The way of the family leads up to the fells, down to the bottom of the River Teno and – when it is time to give birth – far south.
Director/Screenwriter: Petteri Saario
Music: Vilddas, Annukka Hirvasvuopio-Laiti
Producer: DocArt / Tiina and Petteri Saario
Language: Finnish, Sámi, subt. English

www.utsjoenbeckhamit.net

09.00

Films for students Auditorium

Min mors hemmelighet (Suddenly Sámi)
Norway, 2009, 52’
A story about how the City Sámi director returns to the land which her mother has wanted to forget. During Ellen-Astri Lundby’s childhood and youth in Oslo, her mother never told her about being Sámi. Now that her mother is becoming frail, the daughter decides to look for her northern roots and the reasons for her mother’s silence. But can she suddenly become Sámi? And does she want to?
Director: Ellen-Astri Lundby
Producer: Ellen Lundby Film & Media
Language: English, Norwegian, subt. Finnish

Árvas (Tundra of Árvas)
Sweden, 2009, 4’
In Sofia Jannok’s music video, a woman finds colourful company during her trip through the bare landscape of Northern Sweden.
Director: Liselotte Wajstedt
Producer: LittleBig Productions
Language: Sámi

Vuoiŋŋalaš cummá (The Spiritual Kiss)
Norway, 2009, 5’
Homosexualism has been a taboo in Sámi culture. The short film by a Sea Sámi director emphasizes that, in Finnmark, too, being different should be seen as a positive resource.
Director: Gjert Rognli
Language: English

12.00

Films for students Auditorium

Čurte-Niillas
Norja, 2009, 2’
Čurte-Niillas, or Butt-Niillas, is the saviour of the Sámi, who wants to correct all the injustices of the Western world to the Sámi. He is similar to Batman and Superman, but, unfortunately he is Sámi – as things do not always go so smoothly for the Sámi.
Director/Producer: Per-Josef Idivuoma
Producer: Per-Josef Idivuoma
Language: Sámi

Sámiid oaidnu, lahppon oaidnu (Sámi Vision, a Lost Vision)
Finland, 2009, 27'
Oula Näkkäläjärvi is a 70-year-old Sámi journalist, who still works in the Sámi Radio because it is his passion to maintain the Sámi language. In the documentary, he reflects on how it was to work when the Sámi Radio had just been "established", what Sámi co-operation means and how things have changed in the last four decades.
Director/Producer: Aslak Paltto
Language: Sámi, subt. English
 
Märät säpikkäät (Wet Reindeer Fur Leggings)
Finnish, 2009, 30'
"A talk show which revolutionizes your world view and your prejudices – by consolidating them.” A pilot episode of a Sámi entertainment programme, in which Sámi harass the representatives of the dominant culture but also poke at their own pain spots. This turbocharged programme is meant for young people from 16 to 25 years, and it is led by the talent team Kirste Aikio and Suvi West. Not recommended for people with no sense of humour.
Working group: Kirste Aikio, Suvi West, Joonas Saari
Producer: Yle Sámi Radio (?)
Language: Sámi, subt. Finnish

12.00

Films for students Aslak, Ivalo

14.00

Films for students Auditorium

09.00

Films for students