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🇯🇵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』
Director：橋本隆行（Takayuki Hashimoto）
Japanese title: ハポの物語 / Director Takayuki Hashimoto / Japan / Fiction / 2023 / 29'25min / Japanese / Subtitle: English
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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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🇯🇵Japan
『Amiko』
Director：Yusuke Morii
Japanese title: こちらあみこ / Director Yusuke Morii / Japan / drama / 2022 / 104min / Japanese / Subtitle: English
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Amiko isn't like other children. Her endless energy and curious eccentricities make her an outcast at school and get her in trouble at home. When a painful family loss disrupts her seemingly idyllic seaside life, her sense of isolation intensifies, yet it doesn't stop Amiko from inviting people into her world.
Cast: Kazuna Osawa, Arata Iura, Machiko Ono
Director/Screenplay: Yusuke Morii
Original work: Natsuko Imamura “Kochira Amiko” (Chikuma Bunko)
Planning/Producer: Takahiko Kondo
Music: Ichiko Aoba
Distribution: Ark Entertainment
(c)2022 “Kochira Amiko” Film Partners
公式サイト：https://kochira-amiko.com
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🇮🇸Iceland
Country: Iceland (produced in 2020)
Screening time: 15 min
Language: Icelandic
Subtitles: Japanese/English
Date: 15th.2 (Sat) venue: Snow theater『When the Trees Come』
Director：Berglind þrastardóttir
Japanese title: 木々が来るとき / Original title Þegar Trén Koma / Director Berglind þrastardóttir / Iceland / drama / 2020 / 15min / Icelandic / Subtitle: Japanese/English
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Þröstur is 8 years old, his older sister Dagný is 13. After hearing the myths of werewolves returning to Iceland, Þröstur has more to worry about than just the elves and trolls. One full-moon night Þröstur wakes with a start and sees Dagný’s bed is empty, he goes to her bedside to find blood spots on her bedsheets. Þröstur believes his sister is becoming a werewolf. This film retells the suffering saga of menstruation as a mythical metamorphosis through the eyes of a reverent younger brother. In Iceland where trees are starting to grow over the barren landscape as the glaciers melt, rumors are spreading over the playground that with the trees the werewolves are coming back! One night young Þröstur wakes to find blood in the bedsheets of his 13 year old sister... could it be, his own sister, a werewolf?
The tale of menstruation as one of magic and fairytales and not of suffering. Telling not only the change she feels in herself but also the burden of an oncoming responsibility: a changing climate reality she did not ask for.
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🇫🇮Finland
Country: Finland (produced in 2024)
Screening time: 8.31 min
Date: 15th.2 (Sat) venue: Snow theater『Flower show』
Director：Eri Vuorinen
Japanese title: フラワーショー / Iceland / animation / 2024 / 8.31min / non dialoge
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Courteous formality, allusive sexuality, and mysterious nature entwine at the annual flower show. During the celebration, wild flowers are stomped to the ground. In the woods, nature and fragile leg hairs continue to grow. The poetic film portrays a fragmented story of how girls have been cultivated like flowers for generations. We need more growing seasons to breed new ways into the system.
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🇳🇴Norway
Country: Norway (produced in 2024)
Screening time: 18 min
Language: Norwegian
Subtitles: Japanese/English
Date: 15th.2 (Sat) venue: Snow theater
『Warrior Heart』
Director：Marianne Olsen Ulrichsen
Japanese title: 戦士の心 / Original title: Smerteterskel / Norway / drama / 2024 / 18min / Norwegian / Subtitle: Japanese/English
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Vilja (12) loves wrestling even though she's terrified of pain and loses every match. When her parents separate, Vilja's feelings shut down. Then mum’s new boyfriend’s daughter, Thea, turns out to be a star wrestler. Can Vilja overcome her fear of physical and emotional pain?
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🇫🇮Finland
Country: Finland (produced in 2011)
Screening time: 3.37min
Language: Finnish
Subtitles: English
Date: 15th.2 (Sat) venue: Snow theater
『Fish Story』
Director：Teemu Nikki
Japanese title: 魚の話 / Finland / drama / 2011 / 3.37min / Finnish / Subtitle: Japanese/English
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Grab the salmon and run! This film is shot on a cell phone.A rescue of a rare kind, this run has Forrest Gump's attempt to resemble the Kalvinknat. If any animals were harmed during filming? No, the fish get breathing breaks all the time! And the photographer gets to (finally) use his fisheye!
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🇸🇪Sweden
Country: Sweden (produced in 2023)
Screening time:12 min
Language: Swedish
Subtitles: Japanese/English
Date: 15th.2 (Sat) venue: Snow theater『The Rip』
Director：Anna Furenmo, Ditte Lindroth
Japanese title: 裂け目 / Original title: Revan / Sweden / animation / 2023 / 12min / Swedish / Subtitle: Japanese/English
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Eight-year-old Nåmi's greatest wish to get a Tamagotch for Christmas has just come true. This Christmas is absolutely perfect. Apart from father who is in a coma in the hospital, mother whispering on the phone and the vegetables in Nåmi's soup accusing her of murder. It was her cold that got into his brain. To avoid her own feelings of guilt, Nåmi becomes obsessed with keeping her Tamagotch alive. A film directed by Ditte Lindroth and Anna Furenmo in a series of graduation films from the Stockholm Academy of Arts.
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🇸🇪Sami・Sweden
『A Soul of city』
Director：Liselotte Wajstedt
Japanese title: 都市の魂 / Director Liselotte Wajstedt / Sweden / art experimental / 2012 / 5.5min / non dialoge
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The name Kiruna comes from the Sami word Giron, which means Mountain Grouse.The young city of Kiruna got its name because from a distance it could look as if the two mountains Luossavaara and Kiirunavaara looked like two Ripos sitting and talking to each other.Nowadays, the tops/heads of both mountains are stripped. One of which is the city's Slalombacke and the oldest opencast mine. Then they started mining the ore from Kiirunavaara, which in Sami is called Gironvarri, which directly translates to Fjällripafjället.Now Kiruna will move and parts of the city will become a mine hole. I ask myself; What is the soul of a city?
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🇮🇸Iceland
Country: Iceland(produced in 2014)
Screening time: 5 min
Language: Icelandic
Subtitles: Japanese/English
Date: 14th.2 (Fri) venue: Snow theater
『Let´s Talk About Violence』
Director：Una Lorenzen
Japanese title: だれかに話して / Original title: Tolum um ofbeldi /Director Una Lorenzen/ Iceland / animation / 2014 / 5min / Icelandic / Subtitle: Japanese/English
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The message children are supposed to be left with are that domestic violence is not the family’s private matter, it can take place in every family and that the violence is never the child’s fault as the adults are responsible for the child’s wellbeing.In the cartoon children are encouraged to speak about the violence as there is always someone who can help.
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🇳🇴Norway
Country: Norway (produced in 2022)
Screening time: 18 min
Language: Norwegian
Subtitles: Japanese/English
Date: 15th.2 (Sat) venue: Snow theater
『Planet Robin』
Director：Johan Kaos Nåden Dyrstad
Japanese title: ロビンと惑星 / Norway / drama / 2022 / 18min / Norwegian / Subtitle: Japanese/English
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Nine-year-old Robin discovers a small planet hovering by itself in the woods. It is damaged and needs help, so Robin takes it home and hides it in the garage with disastrous consequences. Robin's parents no longer have any time for her because they are too busy arguing. Robin takes refuge in the woods, where she finds a planet that has crashed and is badly wounded. She hides it in the garage and nurses it back to health. Will Robin be able to keep her new friend a secret even as her parents begin packing the boxes to move?
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🇩🇰Denmark
Country: Denmark (produced in 2020)
Screening time: 8 min
Language: Danish
Subtitles: Japanese/English
Date: 15th.2 (Sat) venue: Snow theater『The Man and the Head』
Director：Nilas Røpke Driessen
Japanese title: 男と頭 / Denmark / animation / 2020 / 8min / Danish / Subtitle: Japanese/English
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A little man builds a house on a giant floating head. The man and the head develop a friendship, talk about their days and try to figure out what to do with their lives.
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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』
Director：Liselotte Wajstedt
Japanese title: 母 / Director Liselotte Wajstedt / Sweden / Fiction / 2023 / 7min / North Sami / Subtitle: Japanese/English
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“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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🇯🇵Japan
Country: Japan (produced in 2023)
Screening time: 85 min
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: English
Date: 15th.2 (Sat) venue: Iiyama Cultural Hall Naturar
Producer Sanae Kawai scheduled to attend Talk session Q&A included『RIPPLES of PHYSIS』
Director：Ayako Mogi
Japanese title: フィシスの波文 / Director Ayako Mogi / Producer Sanae Kawai / Japan / documentary / 2023 / 85min / Japanese / Subtitle: English
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A journey led by patterns, far and deep.Starting from the karakami patterns handed down for 400 years in Kyoto, Japan,going around the world pursuing physis (nature as it is), which has been transformed into patterns since the Paleolithic period. Transcending time and space, you will see in between...Karacho is a traditional workshop in Kyoto. For 400 years, products and art called karakami, which are handprinted patterns on Japanese paper, have been handed down. This film begins from a scene of this workshop. Since the Edo period (17th-19th century), Karacho has inherited wooden painting blocks, on which patterns with motifs of plants, clouds, swirls and ripples are carved. The film shows the work performed in the workshop: earth- and mineral-derived paint and mica are placed on the painting block to make patterns printed on washi paper. The karakami produced by repetition is breathtakingly beautiful; itself a form of nature, with movements, rhythms and coloring that emerge. The camera carefully captures the patterns, forms of nature, and the atmosphere. Patterns have lived on in many places, like the Aoi Matsuri and Gion Matsuri festivals in Kyoto, temples, shrines, and tea ceremony spaces. Also, they are found in the line engravings on rocks in Italy from about 10,000 years ago, and in mosaics adorning ancient Roman cathedrals, as well as in the culture passed down among the Ainu people in Hokkaido, Japan. As if guided by patterns, places are connected across time and space, becoming a journey. The film includes interviews with notable figures: an artistic director of Hermès, Akira Minagawa, designer of minä perhonen, and Hiroshi Tomura, a contemporary artist. They speak about their inspiration from nature and their own creations. The secret Ainu rituals and prayers to deities in the mountains show the relationships among people, nature and patterns. A record of the journey through patterns, expanding from a small workshop in Kyoto to multiple layers around the world, will remind us again of the important senses that we have forgotten and the connection to the archaic layer of all humanity.
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🇸🇪Sami・Sweden
『A sami in the city』
Director：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
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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
Welcome, 2016
Director：Liselotte Wajstedt
Japanese title: ようこそ2016年 / Director Liselotte Wajstedt / Sweden / art experimental / 2016 / 4.4min / non dialoge
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Work-in-process, a part of my project Kiruna The Drift Block. Kiruna cracks ... What happens in the intervals between place and person? Places and human history? The place and its memory? Life that once lived on the place? I filmed in an empty apartment in the area Bromsgatan in Kiruna, short after the family had moved out from it. Shortly after, the house was demolished. The films is a part of a Bigger Picture of the moving of Kiruna City.
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🇸🇪Sami・Sweden
The sami and her body
Director：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
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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』
Director：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
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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
37 minute uncut full version screening">
Country: Japan (produced in 2024)
Screening time: 37 min
Language: Japanese
Subtitles: English
Date: 15th.2 (Sat) venue: Snow theater 19:30～20:10
Producer Yuriko Taniguchi will be present and there will be Q&A time after the movie screening.
※The scheduled time may change slightly depending on weather conditions. Thank you for your understanding. Please take appropriate measures to protect yourself from the cold when you visit.『Like bamboo, like bamboo shoot』37 minute uncut full version screening
Director：Shinya Kawakami
Japanese title: 竹とタケノコ / Japan / drama / 2024 / 37min / Japanese / Subtitle: English
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A story of a father and son over the Tezutsu fireworks, which are believed to have originated in Toyohashi. Akira's son Yuto, who is obsessed with handheld fireworks, is handicapped in communicating with others, but has a talent for drawing pictures. However, Akira shows no interest in Yuto's drawings. One day, Akira falls ill and is told he has little time left to live after a check-up at the hospital.
February 15th Snow Theater around 19:00 Screening of 37 minutes uncut version!
Producer Yuriko Taniguchi is here! Q&A time scheduled after the movie screening
【From the film festival office】
Movies are a way to express feelings. In addition to becoming a director and making movies myself, I sometimes start making movies in the position of a ``producer.'' There are times when you can complete a movie by connecting people and things that you can shoot yourself and do without editing. This movie is about Yuriko Taniguchi who meets the people of Toyohashi and says, ``Let's make a movie with these people and this place!'' I worked hard with this passion, and it took shape. Fierce fireworks are set off on a snowy screen to connect the feelings of parents and children. Please come and see it. We have warm drinks ready for you.
We are planning to have hot drinks made over a bonfire at the Snow Theater during the screening.
【menu】
１．Sweet and sour warm Swedish hot berry juice
２．Finnish coffee is made in the forest by putting beans in a kettle and setting it on a bonfire.
※The screening will be held outdoors in a snowy mountain, so it will be held close to nature. We would like to implement this event with the safety of our audience and staff as our top priority. Screening times and drink schedules may change depending on weather conditions. Thank you for your understanding and cooperation.
Movie “Like bamboo, like bamboo shoot” Official HP
NEWS:“Like bamboo, like bamboo shoot” Grand Prix Winner! @Okinawa NICE Film Festival 3-February 2025
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🇮🇸Iceland
Country: Iceland (produced in 2023)
Screening time: 6 min
Language: icelandic
Subtitles: Japanese/English
Date: 15th.2 (Sat) venue: Snow theater
『Intrusion』
Director：Gunnur Martinsdóttir Schlüter
Japanese title: 乱入 / Original title: Fár / Iceland / drama / 2023 / 6min / Icelandic / Subtitle: Japanese/English
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A bird hits a window of a café and disrupts its customers. A woman faces a decision on whether to ignore nature or to react.
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🇸🇪Sweden
Country: Sweden (produced in 2021)
Screening time: 15 min
Date: 15th.2 (Sat) venue: Snow theater『The Expected』
Director：Carolina Sandvik
Japanese title: 期待 / Sweden / animation / 2021 /15min / non dialoge / Subtitle: Japanese/English
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A father-to-be ends up in a feverish nightmare after a miscarriage, when a strange entity seems to be growing in the mother's blood.
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🇫🇮Finland
Country: Finland (produced in 2024)
Screening time: 12 min
Language: Finnish
Subtitles: Japanese/English
Date: 15th.2 (Sat) venue: Snow theater『Pena’s Special Hauling』
Director：Anssi Kasitonni
Japanese title: ペナの特別運搬 / Finland / drama / 2024 / 12min / Finnish / Subtitle: Japanese/English
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Pena has been a truck driver for five decades. Recently his memory has been causing him problems. And he’s in trouble with the law. Luckily friends and family support him when he is restricted to working only on weekends. The film highlights aging and memory problems, and the importance of play in how society should relate to this. Filmed in the director’s signature Finnish-American country-boy style.
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🇩🇰Denmark
Country: Denmark (produced in 2023)
Screening time: 17 min
Language: Danish
Subtitles: Japanese/English
Date: 15th.2 (Sat) venue: Snow theater『Ivalu』
Director：Anders Walter and Pipaluk K. Jørgensen
Japanese title: イヴァル / Denmark / drama / 2023 / 17min / Danish / Subtitle: Japanese/English
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Ivalu is gone. Her little sister is desperate to find her. Her father does not care. The vast Greenlandic nature holds secrets. The search for Ivalu is on.A melancholic and tragic story of a childhood ended too soon, set amidst the majestic glaciers of Greenland. Here, two sisters, Pipaluk and Ivalu, live with their father in a small, quiet town. One morning, Pipaluk wakes up to find that Ivalu has disappeared without a trace. A girl, led by a mysterious raven, goes looking for her sister. The first film in Northern Lights' history to be nominated for an Oscar.
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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』
Director：Yoshihiro Nishimura
Japanese title: モコﾛ イタｸ / Director nincup・Yoshihiro Nishimura / Japan / music / 2023 / 6min / Japanese / Subtitle: English
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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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🇳🇴Norway
Country: Norway (produced in 2002)
Screening time: 13 min
Language: Norwegian
Subtitles: Japanese/English
Date: 14th.2 (Fri) venue: Snow theater
Date: 15th.2 (Sat) venue: Iiyama Cultural Hall Natura
『The Hedge of Thorns』
Director：Anita Killi
Japanese title: 鉄のいばらを超えて / Original title Tornehekken / Norway / animation / 2001 / 12.56min / Norwegian / Subtitle: Japanese/English
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Florian and Malene are best of friends. Every day the play by the creek. One day the war breaks out and the two aren't allowed to play with each other because they are on opposite sides of the war.The film describes a close relationship between two childs who are not allowed to play with each other because of the war. The hedge of torns (or the barbwire) is the physical element that seperates them. The children misunderstands what war is. The explanation that the father gives makes it worse and Florian wonders if it his and Marlenes "noisy play" by the creek that woke up the war. The friendship survives the war and the film ends in hope.
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🇸🇪Sami・Sweden
『Green Mountain』
Director：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
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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
■Organizer：Snow Collective
■Sponsors： Embassy of Denmark / Embassy of Finland / Embassy of Iceland / Embassy of Norway / Embassy of Sweden / Iiyama City / Nagano Prefectural Board of Education / Iiyama City Board of Education / Shinshu Iiyama Tourism Bureau / Madarao Kogen Tourism Association
■Cooperation： Madarao Kogen Hotel・Madarao Kogen Ski Resort / Video Apex / les contes / KATOMOKKO / PLUSTAR / San-En Terraviva / KasualTech / Little Minds English School
■Supported by： Japan Arts Council
