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A young Sámi man witnesses a band of vicious raiders slay his family and flees to a nearby village, where he learns he must become a Pathfinder.

In World War II, a Finnish sniper is left chained to a rock by German soldiers, while a captain of the Red Army, en route to his court martial, is almost blown up by Russian planes. A Lapp woman gives shelter to both of them at her farm.

Religious and cultural reawakening inspires rebellion in a 19th century Norwegian village.

Set in Norway's northern reaches, the story centers on Elvira, a Sami teen. Convinced her mother conceived at a Danish clinic, her life shifts when her true father emerges, forever altering her world.

Iida, an elderly Skolt Sámi woman who has abandoned her past under the pressures of assimilation, weaving across three different historical eras to examine the fate of Finland's Indigenous peoples in the post-war period.

The indigenous Sámi people are fighting for their existence. Current governmental policies permit their cultural genocide. This is a cry for help for the last indigenous people in the EU.

After living for many years in Oslo, Lena moves back to Sápmi in Northern Norway with her young son to explore Sami gender in an art project. While researching in the wintry tundra, she falls in love with reindeer herder Máhtte - whose mother, the head of the family, disapproves of the relationship. As decisions from the past come to haunt her, Lena struggles to find out whether her and Máhtte's lifestyles can ever be compatible.

'Jernanger' is a tale about Eivind, who is scared of nothing--except love. He lives aboard a boat in the South of Norway. The boat lies low and lopsided in the water. 30 years ago, Eivind left his homestead and his teenage sweetheart behind, and he has not been back since. He was meant to go back when everything was hunky-dory, only that never happened. Then young Kris appears. He wants to travel the world, but he's only gotten as far as the lifeboat of Jernanger. The two men find each other, and together they hatch a great plan.

Maidi, a reindeer herder is dependent on her neighborhood's chief, Heikka, who has a thing for her. Heikka bestows a curse on Maidi that prevents her from working when she falls in love with his cousin. She must reverse the curse. Yet how?

A Indigenous Sámi people fights to get back their stolen ancestral heritage.

The protagonists fight to get over their traumas while living in exile after leaving their native countries. They often feel trapped by fate and lose faith, but companionship and humor give them strength.

A year in the Sami boy Ante's life. His dream is to become a reindeer owner like his dad, but in the autumn he has to attend school, where he struggles to adapt.

At school they used to call him Bázo, a Sami expression for a slightly retarded person. In his village they still use the name behind his back. In a way it is true. Emil is not the smartest person in the little mountain village where he lives with his father. he never even learned how to read or write properly. His brother, Kenneth, was different. He bought himself an excavator, worked in both Finland and Norway, made a lot of money, and used to ocome on visits with different girlfriends in his shiny Mercedes. One day Emil and his father receive a letter; Kenneth is dead. He has been in an accident with the excavator. Emil goes to Norway looking for whatever may be left of his brother's belongings. The Mercedes is gone. It turns out that all Emil has inherited is an almost new shotgun, a seven-year-old boy, Kenneth's former girlfriend, and his shady business dealings. Together Emil and the boy, Kevin, start looking for the Mercedes, unaware of his dead brother's powerful enemise. It turns out that Kenneth was most likely killed...

The film is inspired by the contemporary life of the indigenous people inhabiting the European arctic region, the Sámi. Two parallel stories gradually unfold the everyday life of two very different persons: 86-year-old Sara and Mihka, a seven-year-old Sámi boy, both living in Guovdageaidnu, in the middle of the Norwegian arctic tundra.

Me and my Little Sister is a personal film about sisterhood, homosexuality and the search for acceptance.

In the northernmost part of Sweden and Norway, a conflict over land and borders seems to be eternally ongoing. Simon and Beatrice Marainen and their three kids are a part of an indigenous Sami semi-nomadic community of reindeer herders, that have traditionally always moved freely across northern Scandinavia, following the natural movement of their herds. But today, nationalism, bureaucracy and politics are a threat against their traditional way of life.

A visual trip across the Northern Caldera, past Sweden, Norway and Finland, through history to present times. With the Sami blues, the Jojk, in the air.

An amazing adventure through Sweden's northernmost landscape. A unified agreement from the nine Sámi communities that live and work in the Laponia area to have their lives documented and their voices heard. As part of a minority in our elongated country, their stories struck me personally. An experience that made me open my eyes and heart to a historical struggle, a deeply spiritual culture and an ancient lifestyle in harmony with nature. Together with producer Måns Lorentzen and photographer Jens Harvard, we crossed forests, wetlands, rapids and mountains during 3 seasons to interview and film 20 different people in the area. People I will never forget. A part of Sweden that must be preserved.

A reindeer herdsman's life is as gently monotonous as the tundra's landscape itself. It flows in synchrony with the life of the reindeer herd from one migration to the other.

Shot in Lapland and Brazil, this film reveals Man's relationship with nature, from the indigenous people point of view. Listen to the oral culture of the Saamis from the Arctic and the Fulni-ôs from Brazil. Beyond the ice-fields, beyond the trees, the countries, the climates, the skins - the same intuition : the whole future is in their hands.

A recorded live concert with Wimme Saari and RinneRadio (FI), Yat-Kha (RU) and Transjoik (NO).