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Paul-Anders Simma

Paul-Anders Simma

Directing

Biography

Paul-Anders Simmai is a Finnish filmmaker and screenwriter.

Known For

Akvaariorakkaus
3.3

Waitress Saara meets handsome journalist Joni, and soon moves in to live with him. Joni tries his best to satisfy Saara sexually but, disturbed by violent lesbian fantasies, she is unable to experience orgasm. Trying to cope with the situation, Saara has another brief affair back in her old home town.

Akvaariorakkaus

1993
The Minister of State
5.7

A man uses a case of mistaken identity to gain the confidence of a small village, and in the process exposes universal human traits: honour, greed, honesty, and eventually love.

The Minister of State

1997
Duoddara árbi
7.0

There's a funeral in Sapmi. The dead is the father of 17-year old John-Andreas. He now remembers what his father told him shortly before his death. Will John-Andreas manage to take over? It's tough to continue, when reindeers keep disappearing.

Duoddara árbi

1994
My Dear Mother
N/A

My Dear Mother is about the 15-year-old girl Dasha who lives in an orphanage in a small town in Russia. We follow her for five years, in all the thoughts she has about growing up in orphanages. She wonders why her mother left her. Until her grandmother died, she lived with her grandparents, who were Russian Sami. Dasha's father is in jail and her mother was a drug addict. Dasha would like to have contact with her roots and she wants to keep her Sami identity.

My Dear Mother

2019
Let's Dance!
7.3

12 year old sami boy Lassi sneaks into a dance at the community hall. But how will he get to dance with the girl he is in love with?

Let's Dance!

1991
Olga
N/A

Olga is believed to be a mentally disabled, orphan girl who is following reindeer herder along the hiking trails in Russia. But she is a very smart teenager and an excellent storyteller.

Olga

2013
Vaši eatnamat
N/A

When two different cultures meet in Hammerfest, Norway. The second is old nomadism based on a large annual cycle, another contemporary urban culture that has risen around the oil and fish industry. The collision of these two cultures is inevitable but absurd.

Vaši eatnamat

1994
To Kill a Reindeer
N/A

Young Sámi journalist Alexander Paul returns to his home town Lovozero in North-West Russia full of hope, equipped with the best western education. He dreams of contributing to the restoration of the dignity of his people. But he realizes that those who have sold their souls do not appreciate the truth.

To Kill a Reindeer

2012
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10.0

A man sets out to retrieve the skeletons of his ancestors, stolen in the 1930s for eugenic experiments.

Give us our skeletons!

1999
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N/A

A young Sami boy, accustomed to the comfort of Swedish modern life, spend time with his grandfather in the mountains. Superstition, boredom and no freestyle.. After a while, however, he begins to understand what his grandfather represents.

Beyond Day and Night

1988