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Paul-Anders Simmai is a Finnish filmmaker and screenwriter.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A man sets out to retrieve the skeletons of his ancestors, stolen in the 1930s for eugenic experiments.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
