Sameblod
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| Swedish | Sameblod |
| Directed by | Amanda Kernell |
| Produced by | Lars G. Lindström |
| Written by | Amanda Kernell |
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Lene Cecilia Sparrok Hanna Alström Anders Berg |
| Music by | Kristian Eidnes Andersen |
| Cinematography | Sophia Olsson Petrus Sjövik |
| Edited by | Anders Skov |
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| Language | Swedish Southern Sami language |
Sami Blood (Swedish: Sameblod) is a 2016 Swedish coming-of-agedrama film written and directed by Amanda Kernell, at her feature film debut. The first 10 minutes of the movie (and part of the end) comes directly from the short film Stoerre Vaerie (2015, dir. Amanda Kernell). Stoerre Vaerie is Kernell's first movie with Sami themes and it was nominated for the Short Film Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, Park City, Utah, USA.
The film is set in Sweden in the 1930s and concerns a 14-year-old girl who experiences prejudice at a nomad school for Sami children, and decides to escape her town and disavow her Sami heritage. Parts of the story are inspired by Kernell's own grandmother.
The film premiered at the 73rd edition of the Venice Film Festival in the Venice Days section, in which it was awarded the Europa Cinemas Label Award and the Fedeora Award for Best Debut Director.
In present day, 78 year old Ella-Marja (who calls herself Christina, these days) returns to Lapland, and her childhood society, with her son, Olla, and granddaughter Sanna, to attend her younger sister's funeral. Ella-Marja doesn't want to be there. She doesn't like the Sami people, she calls them thieves and liars, and even though her first language is Southern Sami, she refuses to speak it and pretends to not understand it. She even refuses to spend the night at her late sister's family home and rather check into a hotel. (This part of Sami Blood is directly taken from Stoerre Vaerie.)
In the 1930's, 14 year old Ella-Marja is sent to the nomad school with her younger sister Njenna. It's a sort of boarding school for Sami children where a blond teacher from Småland teaches them Swedish, and to know their place. Speaking Sami, even just among themselves outside of the classroom, results in beatings.
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