Eight minutes that'll gut-punch your assumptions about indigenous identity.
An essay film about how it may feel to grow up as a young Sami in Sweden, with poetry written by Ella-Maria Nutti and graphics by Irma Bergdahl. The partying of a typical teenager together with the labels put on you that wont go away, the questions which are thrown on you as knives in the back. A tribute to our ancestors who fought for our rights and a declaration of love to the young Samis who continues to fight
Writing
Nutti's poetry cuts where statistics fail.
Cinematography
Graphics merge bloodline with landscape.
Director
Irma Bergdahl
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
LIHKKU means 'dance' in Northern Sámi—reclaiming movement as resistance against forced assimilation policies that banned traditional yoik until 1958.
Bergdahl shot this while still in film school, making it part of a wave of young Sámi artists bypassing state-funded institutions to tell their own stories.
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