Kernell spoke to Variety about the narrative and productive challenges of making a movie in a language spoken by roughly 500 people. Excerpts. People don’t know about our heritage and race because ...

In the 1990s, fewer than 350 people spoke Inari Sámi. Today, experts say about 500 people speak the near-extinct language, and the movement to learn it is growing. Ingrid Gaup braids dried "shoe grass ...

The film received its Finnish premier in October 2023 and was screened at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York. Je'vida is the first full-length fictional movie filmed in the Skolt Sámi language, a ...

In the most harrowing scene in “Sami Blood,” the first feature by Swedish-Sami writer-director Amanda Kernell, Elle-Marja, an indigenous teenager from the Lapland region of northern Sweden, is ...

KIRUNA, Sweden — Squinting in the horizontal rays from the barely rising winter sun, Hans-Goeran Partapuoli scans knee-deep snow for prints from lynx or wolverine, traditional enemies of his reindeer.

Swedish-Sami writer director Amanda Kernell’s first feature film “Sami Blood,” is a striking drama set against the backdrop of racism against the Sami people in the North of Sweden, about a young Sami ...