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NATIVe 2017 Demonstrates How Multifaceted And
Creative The World Of Indigenous Filmmaking
Films Enrich The International Cinema Landscape


Maryanne Redpath - NATIVe Curator
 
NATIVe – A Journey into Indigenous Cinema which opened yesterday with The Skolt-Sámi Kaisa Gauriloff in Kuun metsän Kaisa (Kaisa's Enchanted Forest) by Katja Gauriloff, focuses in 2017 on Indigenous cinema from the Arctic. Sustainability, climate change, delocalisation and questions of Indigenous rights and self-empowerment are further themes addressed in this year's featured films.

The cultural sphere of the Sámi, Europe's only Indigenous people: made in 2016's Kuun metsän Kaisa (Kaisa's Enchanted Forest), is by Finnish Skolt Sámi director Katja Gauriloff, and tells the story of Gauriloff's charismatic great-grandmother Kaisa. This personal and poetic documentary film effortlessly weaves original film and sound recordings from the 1930s to the 1970s together with animated sequences and folk tales of the Skolt Sämi. It stands as a testament to the eventful history of the Skolt Sámi and their struggle to preserve their unique culture in the wake of resettlements brought about by shifting borders throughout the course of the 20th century.

NATIVe Curator Maryanne Redpath comments: "Climate change in the Arctic and the economic machinations of the industrialised nations of the West represent serious impositions in the everyday lives of the Indigenous communities which still inhabit the region. The medium of film can play a positive role by enabling them to position themselves and gain international exposure for their points of view." Festival Director Dieter Kosslick also emphasises the significance of Indigenous cinema: "With each new regional focus, NATIVe demonstrates how multifaceted and creative the world of Indigenous filmmaking is and how much its films enrich the international cinema landscape."

The film programme for the special series, which is comprised of nine short and ten feature-length films, are also complemented by a number of events featuring discussion and other spoken word formats. There is a pressure to assimilate and wider social change influence all of the Indigenous peoples who call the area around the Arctic Circle home. The indigenous peoples include the Inuit of Canada, the Greenlanders, the Sámi of Northern Europe and Russia's Kola Peninsula as well as the Yakuts and Chukchi of the Russian Federation's Eastern Siberian region.

As in previous years, the film programme of this special series will be accompanied by an extensive supporting programme. On two afternoons, the Embassy of Canada will assist the NATIVe team in co-hosting panel discussions with Indigenous filmmakers and international guests in the rooms of their Leipziger Platz location, to be followed by film screenings.

The event Arctic Change, Indigenous Life and Scientific Tracks in Sakha / Russia, organised in co-operation with the Climate Initiative Regional Climate Change (REKLIM) at the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research, and the DEKRA Hochschule für Medien, will present the effects of climate change on everyday life and the environment in Sakha to a Berlin audience in the scope of talks and short films.

For the first time, NATIVe will also be represented in the special series Berlinale Goes Kiez with an additional screening of the documentary film Angry Inuk, which provides insight into the Inuit perspective on the heated international debate surrounding seal hunting.

Synopsis Snapshots Of The Feature Films At NATIVe:

24 Snega (24 Snow) By Mikhail Barynin, Russian Federation 2016 Documentary form International premiere. Despite the sacrifices it entails, Sergei passionately devotes his life to traditional horse breeding, toughing out the winter in the taiga like a lone cowboy hero. Spectacular cinematography conveys the biting cold feeling of nomadic life in Sakha.
 
24 Snega | 24 Snow - NATIVe 2017/RUS 2016 - by: Mikhail Barynin - © Muus Khaia Production
 
Angry Inuk By Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, Canada 2016. Documentary form. A vivid depiction of the quiet anger of a people whose very subsistence is being threatened from many angles. An outcry to reassess the preconceptions around commercial seal-hunting, while illustrating the role of global sealskin trade for Inuit.

Johogoi Aiyy (God Johogoi) By Sergei Potapov, Russian Federation 2016. Documentary form. International premiere. The young horse herder Johogoi feels summoned by the equine deity to attend the celebrated summer festival of Sakha. His excitement radiates through his smile as he participates in the rituals, believing he will find the woman who appears in his dreams.

Jumalan morsian (A Bride of the Seventh Heaven) By Anastasia Lapsui, Markku Lehmuskallio, Finland 2003. With Angelina Saraleta, Viktoria Hudi, Ljuba Filipova, Jevgeni Hudi. At birth, Syarda was promised as a bride to Num, the highest god of the Nenets. Now an elderly lady, still bound to this fate, she tells the story of her wistful, yet self-determined life to a blind young girl who alleviates her loneliness.

Kniga Tundry. Povest' o Vukvukaye - Malen'kom Kamne. (The Tundra Book. A Tale of Vukvuka - the Little Rock.) By Aleksei Vakhrushev, Russian Federation 2011. Documentary form. Jovial and as energetic as a teenager, the wise Vukvukai guides his nomadic Chukchi community. These tough reindeer herders survive in their snowy wonderland despite the harsh threats posed by the weather and Russian politics.
 
Kuun metsän Kaisa | Kaisa's Enchanted Forest - NATIVe 2017/FIN 2016 - by: Katja Gauriloff - © Oktober
 
Kuun metsän Kaisa (Kaisa's Enchanted Forest) By Katja Gauriloff, Finland 2016. Documentary form. The Swiss author Robert Crottet visits the Skolt Sámi and records spirited Kaisa's unique storytelling gift. Handmade animation and rare archival footage illustrate the full world of the Skolt Sámi, from magical moments to the hardships of war.

Maliglutit (Searchers) By Zacharias Kunuk, Canada 2016. With Benjamin Kunuk, Jocelyne Immaroitok, Karen Ivalu, Joseph Uttak. European premiere. The tranquil life of a nomadic family in Nunavut is torn apart by a marauding gang of hunters looking for wives. Kuanana, the head of the family, goes out for revenge. A poetic Inuit Western.

Sameblod (Sami Blood) By Amanda Kernell, Sweden 2016. With Lene Cecilia Sparrok, Mia Erika Sparrok, Maj Doris Rimpi, Julius Fleischanderl. A teenage girl from a traditional Sámi family yearns to be accepted by the Swedish society of the 1930s, a society full of prejudice and discrimination against her people. A shrewd commentary on institutionalised abuse and its consequences.
 
Sameblod | Sami Blood - NATIVe 2017/SWE/DNK/NOR 2016 - by: Amanda Kernell - © Isabell Höjman
 
Seitsemän laulua tundralta (Seven Songs from the Tundra) By Anastasia Lapsui, Markku Lehmuskallio, Finland 2000. With Vitalina Hudi, Hatjako Yzangi, Gregory Anaguritsi, Nadezhda Volodeeva. A rich contemplation of the Nenets in a seven-part chronicle, each guided by a meaningful song. Once a free people, the Soviet rule arrives to infringe upon their culture, affecting their identity irreversibly. An emotional political statement.

SUME - Mumisitsinerup Nipaa (SUMÉ - The Sound of a Revolution) By Inuk Silis Høegh, Greenland / Denmark / Norway 2014. Documentary form. For the Greenlanders of the 1970s, the surge of the progressive rock band SUME was mind-blowing: lyrics in their own language, inspiring them to act against the repression of their people. This is the compelling testimony to their revolution.

Synopsis Snapshots Of The Short Films at NATIVe:

Bihttoš (Rebel) By Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers, Canada / Norway, 2014. Documentary form. In a poignant personal essay, Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers examines her complex relationship to her Sámi father. Her family's blissful life was silently affected by a dark pain her father harboured. A pain rooted in past injustices against a whole generation of the Sámi.

Half&half By Aka Hansen, Denmark / Greenland 2014. Documentary form. Aka Hansen ponders her mixed heritage by posing well-struck questions about how others perceive her, which in contrast to the filmic symmetry suggests that identity cannot be split neatly in half.

Nowhere Land By Rosie Bonnie Ammaaq, Canada 2015. Documentary form. Denied the opportunity to lead a true Inuit life on Baffin Island, Rosie Bonnie Ammaaq shares the grief she felt when forced to relocate, while witnessing the heartbreaking demise of her homeland. She stands in front of the camera and bares her soul. Ogo Kuyuurduu Turara (Boy and Lake) By Prokopyi Nogovitsyn, Russian Federation 2003. With Slava Titov, Roman Danilov, Vladimir Krivoshapkin. A Sakha boy sets out on a lyrical journey through the boreal forest to catch fish in a secluded icebound lake. He performs the laborious task as a meditative ritual, at the same time drifting into a magical oneiric world.

Sámi Boddu (Sámi Moment) By Ken Are Bongo, Norway 2011. With Nils Henrik Buljo, Svein Birger Olsen. Surrounded only by the wintry tundra, two Sámi men meet and contemplate the immense horizon. The silence is scarcely broken by the soft breeze, shared cigarettes and a few laconic words.

Sikumi (On the Ice) By Andrew Okpeaha MacLean, USA 2008. With Brad Weyiouanna, Tony Bryant, Olemaun Rexford. On the frozen barren horizon, Apuna spots a furious fight between two hunters, which escalates to a fatality. As Apuna rushes to the scene he becomes conflicted when the perpetrator asks him to bend his morals and appeals to his sense of community.

Sloth By Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, Canada 2011. With Bryan Pearson. A witty sketch of the Inuit way of life, playfully poking fun at stereotypical perceptions.

Tungijuq By Féélix Lajeunesse, Paul Raphaël, Canada 2009. With Tanya Tagaq, Zacharias Kunuk. An artistically powerful statement about the reality of hunting, expressed through a fantastic icy universe and Inuit throat singing, embracing the relevance and appreciation of this vital act.

Vor dem Schnee (Before the Snow) By Christian Vagt, Germany 2007. Documentary form. Eerie first-hand accounts of the supernatural and the dead in the world of the Khanty and Nenets. An intimate atmosphere encompasses the spiritual world void of interpretation, and tells of the mysteries beyond the reality of western Siberia.

 
 


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