Elle Marja, 14, is a reindeer-herding Sámi girl. Exposed to the racism of the 1930's and race biology 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.

Direction: Amanda Kernell

Script: Amanda Kernell

Production: Lars G Lindström, Lars G Lindström

Cinematography: Sophia Olsson

Editing: Anders Skov

Production Design: Olle Remaeus

Costume Design: Viktoria Mattila, Sara Svonni

Make-Up: Sari Nuttunen

Sound: Brian Dyrby, Mira Falk

Original Score: Kristian Eidnes Andersen

Cast: Lene Cecilia Sparrok, Mia Erika Sparrok, Maj Doris Rimpi, Julius Fleischanderl

Original Title: SAMEBLOD

Original Language: Swedish

Film Production Countries: Sweden, Denmark, Norway

Website: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5287168/?ref_=nv_sr_1

Social Media: https://www.facebook.com/sameblod/

Statement of the Director/s

There´s a lost generation who grew up in the same kind of sami boarding schools as my family did and then left everything behind and became Swedish.

Sameblod is declaration of love to this lost generation – completely told from Elle Marjas perspective. I wanted to make a film where we see the sami society from within. A film where we experience this dark part of Swedish history in a subjective and physical way. A film with yolk and blood.

Biography of the Director/s
Amanda Kernell was born in 1986 in Umeå in
northern Sweden with a Sami father and a Swedish
mother. She is a trained director of The National
Film School of Denmark and their 4-year directing
program and has since 2006 made several
award-winning short films such as “Stoerre Vaerie”,
which has won awards as Best Swedish Short Film
at both Uppsala Short Film Festival and Gothenburg
Film Festival 2015 and was nominated for the
Swedish Academy Award “Guldbaggen”.
Before film school Amanda studied scriptwriting
at The Nordic Author School Biskops-Arnö and
she attended Filmpool Nord’s course “Writing
low-budget feature film”. “Sami Blood” (2016) was
her feature film debut and is produced by Lars G
Lindström, Nordisk Film Production. The film premiered
at the Venice Film Festival 2016 and won
the Europa Cinemas Label for best European film.
The film has since then won several awards including
The Special Jury Prize at Tokyo International
Film Festival and the prize for Best Nordic Film /
Dragon Award at the Gothenburg International Film
Festival 2017. The film was also shown at the Sundance
Film Festival in 2017 in the Spotlight section
and at the Berlinale in their NATIVe section.

Filmography of the Director/s
Director’s filmography
2017, I will always love you Kingen, 30 min
2016, Sameblod, drama, 110 min
2015, Stoerre Vaerie, drama, 15 min
2014, Paradiset, drama, 20 min
2013, The association of Joy, 25 min, DDF
2012, Den lille talibaner, drama, 50 min, DDF
2010, Det kommer aldrig att gå över, drama 17 min
2009, Att dela allt, drama, 14 min
2009, Spel, drama, 15 min

Awards Won
Gothenburg Film Festival, Best Nordic Film 2017
Riviera International Film Festival, Best Director 2017
Santa Barbara International Film Festival, Valhalla Award 2017
Tokyo International Film Festival, Special Jury Prize 2016
Venice Filmfestival, Fedeora Best Director of a Debut Film (Venice Days) 2016

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Press:
Nordisk Film Production Sverige AB
Lars G Lindström
Box 27184
Stockholm, 102 52, Sweden
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Phone: +46702111011
Website: http://www.nordiskfilm.se/