The Gállok Rebellion
A movie about the struggle in Gállok, a struggle against british Beowulf Mining Plc. For clean water and a mine free Sápmi.
There's a funeral in Sapmi. The dead is the father of 17-year old John-Andreas. He now remembers what his father told him shortly before his death. Will John-Andreas manage to take over? It's tough to continue, when reindeers keep disappearing.
John-Andreas Utsi
A movie about the struggle in Gállok, a struggle against british Beowulf Mining Plc. For clean water and a mine free Sápmi.
02 Mar 2020
An essay film about how it may feel to grow up as a young Sami in Sweden, with poetry written by Ella-Maria Nutti and graphics by Irma Bergdahl. The partying of a typical teenager together with the labels put on you that wont go away, the questions which are thrown on you as knives in the back. A tribute to our ancestors who fought for our rights and a declaration of love to the young Samis who continues to fight
12 Jan 1943
A drama about the manager Håkan Dahlin who has just been discharged from a clinic where he was treated for his alcoholism. In an outbreak of jealousy, Dahlin abuses his wife Inga and after that he is forcibly interned again. Inga is a nurse and she is now moving to a mountain village to work at a district clinic. During an emergency visit, she encounters her childhood sweetheart, the doctor Gunnar, and old feelings between them begin to flare up again.
23 Jan 2016
Loving someone of the same gender is frowned upon in Sami communities. Sparrooabbán (Me and my little sister) shows what it’s like to be a minority within a minority. Suvi describes how her little sister Kaisa wishes to be accepted as she is. Like her sister, Kaisa is a Sami, but also in a relationship with a woman, and she also works as a deacon. There are obviously more constricting communities in the film than only one.
06 Jan 2019
The third and final part of a trilogy based on Arctic creation myths. The film is a multifaceted tissue weave of myths and traditions reflected in the symbiosis between reindeer, human and landscape.
24 Nov 2021
Ritni Pieski wishes it was easier for Sámi queer youth to grow up in their community. In this short film, Pieski addresses the lack of representation and information about queer people and rights within the Sámi people.
17 Jan 2013
In the north country there are helpers. People with special gifts and abilities. In the Sámi heritage they have existed for centuries. They healed, relieved pain and stopped bleeding. And much more. The good helpers are still here. Out there in our modern world, they are hidden, sometimes hard to find - but not gone. What kind of knowledge do they possess - is it a gift, or could anyone learn how to heal?
16 Aug 2018
A troubled nature photographer risk his family and himself in the fight against a mining project in the Nordic wilderness, when he faces strong political and economical forces, local rivals and a Sámi collective that hesitate to accept him as one of them.
28 Jul 1984
Chilling story of a farmhand who realizes his popular boss has been committing incest with his daughter for years.
27 Dec 1996
Longchun is from a broken home. He lives in the countryside with his mother and stepfather. His father lives in Bangkok and has a much better life with another brother. He hates his stepfather. One night he gets into a fight with him stabbing him in the stomach. His mother tells him to run away to Bangkok. Once there he gets arrested and even though he hates his father, he has to rely on him to bail him out. Once at his home he causes more trouble immediately. He is also a bad influence on the brother. Then he finds out that he is not the only tough kid in Bangkok and gets mixed up with others like him and causes more trouble for everyone.
09 Nov 2001
Based on actual events that plastered the front pages of Thai newspapers in 1986, Sherry Anne was a Thai-American teenager whose murdered corpse was left by the roadside. The investigation resulted in four men being wrongfully accused and jailed for 7 years. The case of Sherry Anne led to public outcry demanding improvement in the legal system to protect the wrongfully accused people.
01 Dec 2013
The stars of Europe's ascendant chip music movement demonstrate the repurposing of old videogame and home computer hardware like Nintendo's GameBoy and NES, Atari's ST, and Commodore's Amiga and C64 into tools by which they have created a new sound, a modern tempo and an innovative musical style.
01 Dec 2013
Peter Weiss' The Aesthetics of Resistance meets a General Strike in Barcelona on September 2010. That night's discussions will be put into question by five anonymous friends who are no longer adolescents nor communist militants and yet also try to oppose the state of things, as did the protagonists of Weiss's novel.
05 Feb 2013
This heartwarming story follows two families that are brought together by tragedy but forever joined through faith. Devin Wheeler and Matthew Daniels are loving, hard working men who believe in God, family, and helping others. Their lives quickly turn into a search for peace and understanding when a single horrific event impacts everything that they have ever loved. While Devin looks to his faith for strength, guidance, and refuge; Matthew shuns his faith placing blame and demanding answers. As the landscape of their lives continues to change, each man handles the road ahead in a very different fashion. An unlikely friendship would soon form, causing both men to meet at a crossroads faced with the same question...Would you love God for nothing?
18 Dec 2013
In 1973, towards the end of the Franco regime, the famous catalan writer Mercè Rodoreda bumped into the literary critic Josep Maria Castellet in Geneva where she lived exiled and she invited him to tea at her house. The writer was a most discrete person and maintained everything that concerned her wrapped in secrecy. Indeed she herself had become a secret or perhaps, even a maker of secrets. However that afternoon, strangely, she opened up and shared many intimacies.
18 Dec 2013
Song Woo-seok is a lawyer with no clients. When his friend's son is falsely accused of a crime and tortured, he takes up the case and the course of his life changes for good.
11 Dec 2013
Jeong-yoon and Jong-bae own a car body repair shop together that gets in financial trouble. To help cover the losses and take care of her family, Jeong-yoon decides to smuggle thirty kilograms of cocaine.
07 Aug 2014
In every moment we make choices that define our being; choices that create shapes and patterns and carve out our lives. Until the pattern is broken – by faith, decision or coincidence. In Real Life is about such moments, where lives are drastically changed. As a multi-plot drama, created out of three years of acting improvisations, In Real Life follows three story threads with characters who come together by internet dating and by their persistent search for some kind of meaning in life between love and sheer survival.
01 Jan 2013
A married couple, struggling to have a child, hires a young woman to be their surrogate, but soon discovers she has a bizarre and deadly agenda.
08 Jan 1938
Cocky young street kid worships his father, a sleazy political operative.