Archive 2009:

Reindeer police screening moved

Win an Easter festival card!

This year Sami film festival gives the audience an opportunity to win a festival card to both the film and music festivalin Kautokeino to a value of 1100 NOK.

Everyone who comes with a snowmobile to the drive-in at the ice cinema has a chance to win a festival card to both the film and music festival. Every snowmobile that enters the drive-in at the ice cinema will be given a ticket and a chance to win. Every night before the last screening at the ice cinema the Sami film festival will announce who is the lucky winner of a festival card.

Welcome to the worlds only snowmobile drive-in.

Nomadic stories: A road movie from the melting Arctic

The documentary “victims of the new weather” will be shown today at the ice cinema. This is a unique documentary series that takes viewers on an adventure through the melting Arctic, a road movie where we meet the people who are the first victims in an increasingly warmer world. We see the true consequences of climate change when we meet Inuits on Greenland and in Alaska, aboriginal peoples in Canada and Nenets in Russia. The host is Samuel Idivuoma.

Sami film festival is screening two episodes of this series. The episodes are about sami and nenets reindeer herders. The screening is today (01.04) at the ice cinema 2100. The tickets are 50 NOK and everybody is welcome.

Nomadic stories: The Kautokeino rebellion

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The Kautokeino rebellion will be shown at the ice cinema today 31.03 at 2100. This screening is a part of the nomadic stories filmprogramme for 4. World reindeer herders congress in Guovdageaidnu. Sami filmfestival invites everybody to come and the tickets are 50NOK. You are also welcome to use the snowmobile drive-in feature.

Kautokeino rebellion tells a true story about a native tribe in Kautokeino that refuses to pay their unjust debt to a prosperous and ruhtless liqour dealer. This leads to one of the most dramatic episodes in northern scandinavian history.

The film is directed by Nils Gaup and has won several prizes, both international and in norway.

You can find more information in the sami filmfestival programme.

Cooperation with Thon Hotell Kautokeino

Sami Film Festival and Thon Hotell Kautokeino will cooperate about this years festival. The snow-mobile drive-in ice-cinema will be built outside the hotel.

- It is important for us that the conditions around the ice-cinema are good, because that will make it easier to arrange the festival. We are very satisfied with the fact that the ice-cinema is going to be loacated outside the hotel, it is in the center of Guovdageaidnu and there is a fantastic view there, says the festivaldirector Sara Beate Eira.

- This is very good for the hotel and for the poeple in Guovdageaidnu. We wish to welvome everybody to the hotel to enjoy films. The audience has also the possibility to visit our restaurant and buy a meal between the films, says the hotelmanager of Thon Hotell Kautokeino, Stina Petersson Kiuru.

The screening of the documentary Reindeepolice is moved to the Cultural house. It will be screened at 1800. Tickets can be purchased at the festival office at Thon hotel, or at the Cultural house.