Films

🇯🇵Japan・Ainu

Country: Japan (produced in 2021)
Screening time: 29'25 min
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: English
Date: 13th.2 (Thu) Indoor venue: Madarao Kogen Hotel Fuyo no Ma

『STORY OF MOTHER』

監督：橋本隆行（Takayuki Hashimoto）

Japanese title: ハポの物語 / Director Takayuki Hashimoto / Japan / Fiction / 2023 / 29'25min / Japanese / Subtitle: English

A mother’s teachings in the Ainu forest and the important ritual for survival in the harsh nature. The story of a young girl who eventually becomes a mother is spun through song and dance.
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🇸🇪Sami・Sweden

Country: Sapmi/Sweden (produced in 2023)
Screening time: 7 min
Language: North Sami
Subtitles: Japanese/English
Date: 15th.2 (Sat) venue: Snow theater

『MOTHER』

監督：Liselotte Wajstedt

Japanese title: 母 / Director Liselotte Wajstedt / Sweden / Fiction / 2023 / 7min / North Sami / Subtitle: Japanese/English

“Háldi”, a forest creature, she is a part of the egotistical system, that may lure children into the woods. Why? EADNI, which means mother, is a multi-layered visual saga that provokes thought. Focusing on Háldi, the whole story is a creation story with the hope that we will protect nature and ensure that the eternal cycle continues. The never-ending saga of the essence of life.
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🇸🇪Sami・Sweden

『A sami in the city』

監督：Liselotte Wajstedt

Japanese title: 都会のサーミ人 / Director Liselotte Wajstedt / Sweden / art documentary / 2007 / 8min / North Sami / Swedish / Subtitle: Japanese/English

I investigate the big city Stockholm from my perspective and in a sami way. I conduct the investigation with the purpose to learn new words. What do you call a skyscraper or a shopwindow or the concrete. How do you say: I am walking here on the pedestrian street, but now I am entering a fashion shop. Wow! What a nice dress, gotta have it. I am carrying a dictionary and a phone… in emergencies I can call up my relatives up north and ask if there is something I don´t understand. I put post-it notes on everything I see and want to leran. Document it with my camera.
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🇸🇪Sami・Sweden

The sami and her body

監督：Liselotte Wajstedt

Japanese title: サーミ人とその体 / Director Liselotte Wajstedt / Sweden / art documentary / 2007 / 4.52min / North Sami / Swedish / Subtitle: Japanese/English

I investigate the body as a tool, a house, flesh. I learn what the different parts of my body are called in sami language. I do this in my home. Me in my body among my things that I identify with. I try out my different sami attributes on my body: like the kolt (traditional dress), the belt, the shoes, the jewellery. ”You are only at home in your self” – a little being said to me. If I feel good in my body, then I feel good anywhere.
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🇸🇪Sami・Sweden

『The city sami in the woods』

監督：Liselotte Wajstedt

Japanese title: 都会のサーミ人森へ / Director Liselotte Wajstedt / Sweden / art documentary / 2007 / 4.4min / North Sami / Swedish / Subtitle: Japanese/English

I want to learn more about the forest in a sami way. I bring along a blanket, some coffee and a sandwich and I go to the forest. I´m thinking about the sami nature creatures from the old mythology and at the same time I am learning new words in sami. I bring with me a pen. I´m writing the sami words on a tree, a rock, soil, roots. The leaves are burning in autumn colours, I make this film when the forest is at its most beautiful state.
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🇯🇵Japan・Ainu

Country: Japan (produced in 2023)
Screening time: 6 min
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: English
Date: 13th.2 (Thu) Indoor venue: Madarao Kogen Hotel Fuyo no Ma

『Mokor Itak』

監督：Yoshihiro Nishimura

Japanese title: モコﾛイタｸ / Director nincup・Yoshihiro Nishimura / Japan / music / 2023 / 6min / Japanese / Subtitle: English

Music video for "Mokor Itak", an Ainu language rap song.This song is included in ``nincup'''s album ``Tup''.``Nincup'' features traditional Ainu songs and dances, Yukara, the world's five great epic poems, and original songs in the Ainu language.Their musical style is a live performance that unfolds like a story about the forest and the city, their longing for a new world, and their inner conflicts, along with the sound of the [gitamba], which is a combination of guitar and bass."Nincup" means the thinning moon before the new moon in Ainu language.The evening feast before departing for a new world.
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🇸🇪Sami・Sweden

『Green Mountain』

監督：Liselotte Wajstedt

Japanese title: グリーン・マウンテン / Original title: Ruotnas Várri / Director Liselotte Wajstedt / Sweden / art documentary / 2018 / 4.56min / North Sami / Swedish / Subtitle: Japanese/English

The song is about the mountain Mertainen, situated 20 km south of Kiruna. The mining company LKAB has started to take out iron ore from the mountain. Mertainen has always been an important place for the Gábna Sami village. The music video is an artistic portrait of the Lars-Ante Kuhmunen Lars-Ánte: "-has been part of the history that one could be there with the reindeer and now one cannot be there with the reindeer.” Awarded for Best Music Video 2nd Indian World Film Festival-2018, Hyderabad, India Ruotnas Várri / The Green Mountain
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