Umeå Film Festival visits Bildmuseet with free film screenings during the weekend of 29–30 November.
Free admission
Limited seating
Saturday
13:00 Film for Babies (Swedish)
14:00 Film for Babies (Sami)
Ann Holmberg
Sweden, 2020
Languages: Swedish and Sami
Subtitles: None
Duration: 23 min
Five colorful, musical, and imaginative short films by Ann Holmberg – perfect for sitting on a parent’s lap and experiencing the very first cinema visit. The films shown are Color!, Things!, Weather!, Numbers!, and Here and There! One screening is in Swedish and the other in Sami.
Combine the visit with a stop at Bildmuseet’s Art Workshop.
Drop-in 12:00–17:00, for all ages.
Sunday 14:00–16:00
Skierri – Land of the Dwarf Birches
Markku Lehmuskallio
Finland/Sweden, 1982
Languages: Sami, Finnish
Subtitles: English
Original title: Skierri, vaivaiskoivujen maa
Duration: 1 h 58 min
The film takes us to the northernmost part of Finnish Lapland, near the Three-Country Cairn, and follows the people who live and make their livelihood there. It also depicts the encounter—and clash—between two cultures: the Sami and the Finnish. Sami traditions and customary law are set against Finnish legislation, personified by the film’s two main characters: the sheriff and the Sami man Niila.
The screening is part of the program accompanying Bildmuseet’s exhibition Art and Truth-Telling, on view on Level 3. The pan-Sami group Avant Joik refers to the film Skierri in their work Can We Reconcile?
