Two parallel stories are gradually unfolding the everyday life of two very different persons - that of 86-year-old Sara and 7-year-old Mihka - both residing in Guovdageaidnu - Kautokeino, in the middle of the Norwegian arctic tundra, through the drastic change of the arctic seasons and the passage from the long winter’s darkness to the never-ending light of the summer season.

About being young and Sámi, focusing on the topics, pride, love and conflict. Isabel moves from her ...

The Sámi people (also spelled Sami or Saami) are an indigenous Finno-Ugric people inhabiting Sápmi, ...

Every winter for decades, the Northwest Territories, in the Canadian Far North, changes its face. Wh...

Dark fears over the North Pole. Long sheltered from large-scale industrial exploitation, the Arctic ...

This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northe...

The climbing brothers Thomas and Alexander Huber (Germany) attempt to conquer free the infamous "Bav...

This documentary follows various migratory bird species on their long journeys from their summer hom...

Wildlife cameraman Gordon Buchanan travels to the frozen north, deep inside the Arctic Circle, to me...

An essay film about how it may feel to grow up as a young Sami in Sweden, with poetry written by Ell...


Shot mainly using spy cameras, this film gets closer than ever before to the world's greatest land p...

How in 1959, during the heat of the Cold War, the government of the United States decided to create ...
"Adrift" is shot on the arctic island of Spitzbergen and in Norway. It combines time-lapse photograp...

The Isogaisa festival runs for a week starting with lectures, workshops and nature walks from Monday...
A critical look at the human-nature relationship in the tundra.
A documentary about Áillohaš (Nils-Aslak Valkeapää), a musician, painter, and poet of the Sámi peopl...

In Northern Russia, a few dozen people still live in their traditional houses surrounded by water, s...