Suddenly Sami

Suddenly Sami (2009)

January 15th, 20090h 52min

Documentary
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Overview

Min Mors Hemmelighet (Suddenly Sami) is a personal film about identity. During the director’s childhood and youth in Oslo her mother never told her about her indigenous Sami background in the Arctic area of Norway. Why didn’t she? And how can the director suddenly become Sami in the middle of life? And does she really want to?


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