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Skábmagovat 2025
Film

ÁHKUIN

Sápmi/Finland 2024

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SiidaFri 24/0116:0010€
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The film is a visual and musical love letter to the director’s late grandmother, Niillasaš-Jovnna Máret, one hundred years after her birth. The film is a visual and musical love letter to the director’s late grandmother, Niillasaš-Jovnna Máret, one hundred years after her birth. Archival interviews and the joik of áhkku unspool as a connecting thread across time, and the melancholic yet playful story offers lessons for the new era defined by giving and receiving. Director in attendance.

Director RadioJus Sunná / Sunná Nousuniemi (Sámi)Guhtur Niillas Rita Duomis / Tuomas Kumpulainen (Sámi)
Producer Taylor Hensel, Adam Mazo, Kavita Pillay, Tracy Rector (seminole/choctaw)
Running time 20 min
Language North saami
Subtitles English
Year 2024
Country Sápmi/Finland
Rating G