Nils Gaups Sámi film The rebellion at Kautokeino has come - in Norway. A film about an important event i Sámi history, showing what colonisation could do to a people. But no, the Swedish Film Institute does not take it to Sweden according to the Swedish Radio website. It is not interesting enough. We saw a fragment at the Jokkmokk film festival last summer - very promising indeed!
The attitude of the film institute is a scandal. Why do they not take their responsibility as a cultural institution? Should they not promote Sámi film, the Sámi being a people of four nations, among them Sweden? And the event described in the film - the "rebellion" at Kautokeino had to do a lot with Sweden as well. It is connected to the Swedish priest Lars Levi Laestadius movement (laestadianism). One could wonder whteher this refusal of the Film Institute to take it to Sweden is another expression of a colonialistic or discriminating attitude of parts of Swedish society. It shows the need for a Sámi film institute...
http://www.sr.se/sameradion/nyheter/artikel.asp?artikel=1846113
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