Sami Blood

Elle Marja, 14, is a reindeer-breeding Sami girl. Exposed to the racism of the 1930s and phrenological examinations at her boarding school, she starts dreaming of another life. To achieve this other life she has to become someone else and break all ties with her family and culture.

• boarding school
• identity
• lapland
• coming of age
• racism
• phrenology
• woman director
• indigenous peoples
• sami life
• ethnic minority
• south sámi language
• saepmie