Sami Blood
Swedish helmer Amanda Kernell makes a stirring debut with a coming-of-age tale that pointedly addresses a bygone era of Scandi colonialism.
Sami Blood
Fourteen-year-old Elle Marja (talented newcomer Lene Cecilia Sparrok) is a reindeer-herding Sámi girl growing up in the 1930s. Exposed to the era’s racial biology examinations at her boarding school, she starts dreaming of another life - but to achieve it, she will have to break all ties with her family and culture.
“A moving, classically rendered coming-of-age tale set against the scarring social prejudices of the 1930s, this handsome debut feature from Swedish- Sámi writer-director Amanda Kernell robustly blends adolescent fears that resonate across borders and generations with a fascinatingly specific, rarely depicted cultural context.” - Guy Lodge, Variety.
“A moving, classically rendered coming-of-age tale set against the scarring social prejudices of the 1930s, this handsome debut feature from Swedish- Sámi writer-director Amanda Kernell robustly blends adolescent fears that resonate across borders and generations with a fascinatingly specific, rarely depicted cultural context.” - Guy Lodge, Variety.
Genre
Drama,
Festival Favorite
Runtime
110
Language
Swedish,
Saami
Director
Amanda Kernell
Cast
Mia Erika Sparrok,
Maj-Doris Rimpi
Awards:
Winner, Label Europa Cinemas, Venice Film Festival
Winner, Fedeora Award ~ Best Director of a Debut Film (Venice Days), Venice Film Festival
FEATURED REVIEW
Alan Scherstuhl, Village Voice
Amanda Kernell’s scrupulously shaped coming-of-rage drama opens with Christina (Maj-Doris Rimpi), an elderly woman wearing sparkling pearls and a pitiless countenance, turning bitterly obstinate when taken back to the Lapland of her birth for her sister’s funeral. She’ll speak to no one, vows not to ...
Played at
Monica Film Center 6.30.17 - 7.06.17
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