Seven short films by Sámi filmmakers from Norway, Sweden and Finland. Full lineup available here. $10 admission. $7 American-Scandinavian Foundation members. In Norwegian, Swedish and Sámi with English subtitles.
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Jörg Donner directs this film about a threatre troupe exploring the life of Armi Ratia, founder of the Finnish design house Marimekko. From Scandinavia House: Leading up to the play, the theater group bombards Maria, who is playing the lead role of Armi, with questions about who this strange woman really was.The play focuses on the years from 1949 to…
From La Maison Française: This highly original film was produced by an artists’ collective on a budget of 150 euros, creating a buzz when it premiered at Cannes, and earning the Prix Louis-Delluc for best first film (2010). It weaves together three story lines: a teacher has a relationship with a student; a young woman disappointed in love decides to…
Race and the legacies of colonialism come together in Isabelle Boni-Claverie’s film Trop noire pour etre française? (Too Black to be French?). From NYU’s Institute of French Studies: [Boni-Claverie] uses the lens of her family and personal history as the granddaughter of an African from the Ivory Coast who married a white French woman in the 1930s. Though she grew…