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Sire and the Last Summer

Sápmi/Sweden, 2022, 14 min. / Fiction

Director/Screenwriter/Producer: Liselotte Wajstedt

Language: Sámi, subt. English

In 1916 Sire Marainen, the director’s grandfather’s mother is pregnant. Then she falls ill with goitre and chokes to death. But before that she lives a rich summer on the fells with her emotions, sounds and memories, concentrating on small details. Sire makes us remember life, not death.

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