FFN - Doc 2

Norway, 2021
Regi: Maria Fuglevaag Warsinska-Varsi

This is the story about when the coast came together to breastfeed a baby. The documentary is about the artist Brit Fuglevaag, who was evacuated as an infant from Kirkenes in 1939 after her mother died in childbirth. It was a dramatic journey where breastfeeding women awaited at every quay along the route to Trondheim. 

Canada, 2021
Regi: Jennie Williams

Run as fast as you can, the Nalujuit are here! Filmmaker Jennie Williams brings us the story of an exhilarating and sometimes terrifying Nunatsiavut tradition that takes place on Nalujuk Night.

Norway, 2021
Regi: Jenny Andersen

A lot changed after I lived through the attack on Utøya, but nature was the same as ever. This is a personal story about how being outdoors and cruising through landscapes with my skateboard helps me heal. Resurface is the first short doc in the miniseries Outbound, where people with different backgrounds tell their own stories about how they use nature to cope with everyday life. 

Canada, 2020
Regi: Allan Richard Code

The Covid pandemic strikes a tragically familiar chord for the Inuvialuit of the Mackenzie River Delta. In the early 19th century John Franklin and his crew infected their ancestors with deadly smallpox. Other devastating epidemics would follow. Historian Randal Pokiak returns to the ancient site of Kitigaaruk, a community abandoned after the great flu epidemic of 1918, to deliver a vivid cautionary tale.

Finland, 2021
Regi: Sunna Nousuniemi

Boso mu ruovttoluotta is a film about the survival struggle of the director, the protagonist of the film Sunna, after being the victim of sexual violence. The film follows Sunna's journey towards the moment when she can finally try to continue her life. The recovery is also supported by a crafting project, which has roots in the Sámi culture, closely connected to the collective effort of the Sámi people to restore their spiritual heritage.

Norway, Netherlands, 2021
Regi: Astrid Ardagh

A forgotten childhood is a film collage of analogue footage shot by Astrid’s father during her childhood. Against a rural arctic backdrop, the film takes the viewer on a journey through time and place. It asks questions about memory and self from different historical and cultural perspectives. We are left wondering what parts of our lives we can actually remember and how our identity depends on our memories of the past.