ISFI Grants 2.1 MNOK to Seven Productions

ISFI Grants 2.1 MNOK to Seven Productions

Five short films, one documentary, and one animation received production grants totaling 2.1 MNOK in the second application round of this year.

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STÁLLUBOJÁ OĐĐA DIHTOR

Animation / Production company: Home River Media  / Producer: Kati Eriksen  / Writer: Niki Rasmus  / Director: Niki Rasmus / Granted: 370.000 NOK

Stálluboy’s gaming session is suddenly interrupted when his father’s antics cause an explosion that destroys his computer. With no money for a new machine, he teams up with a witch to find quick cash. Along the way, they encounter strange figures and treasures from Sámi mythology.

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NOAIDI

Short film / Production company: Finnmark Filmproduction / Producer: Espen Larsson and Johannes Vang / Writer: Espen Larsson  / Director: Espen Larsson / Granted: 350.000 NOK

Author Aslak Poulsen retreats to an old cabin to write, unaware that the cabin is built on the ruins where the noaidi Anders Poulsen was killed in 1692. When the god-fearing neighbor Villum Gundersen appears, Aslak is pulled into an ancient spiritual battle between the Sami and Christian faith.

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JAGI LÁDDELAŠ

Short film  / Production company: Home River Media / Producer: Kati Eriksen  / Writer: Aleksi Ahlakorpi / Director: Aleksi Ahlakorpi / Granted: 185.000 NOK

Ahlakorpi blends stand-up comedy style punchlines and short one-liners with longer stories, where he explores the friend zones between North and South, Finnish and Sámi identities, examining society and what it means to live as a Sámi language Finnish person in Sápmi.

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I DREAM OF MYSELF AT NIGHT

Short film  / Production company: Irma Bergdahl  / Producer: Irma Bergdahl / Co-Producer: Malin Hüber (Herfilm SE) / Writer: Irma Bergdahl, Maja Palm/ Director: Irma Bergdahl  / Granted: 300.000 NOK

Henrik surprises himself and everyone else when he refuses to help out at the yearly calf marking. Determined to just have some fun, things don’t turn out quite as expected.

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BUNK BUNK

Short film  / Production company: Mattima Film AS / Producer: Ane-Martha Hansgård, Laure Dahout (Tiresias Films), Regina Steen Bergman / Co-Production: Laure Dahout (Tiresias Films) / Writer: Ane-Martha Hansgård / Director: Ane-Martha Hansgård / Granted: 300.000

After inheriting a strange bunker filled with Sámi artifacts, a queer woman returning home confronts her buried heritage, grief, and identity in a surreal journey through memory, motherhood, and ancestral silence.

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GOAVKUT

Short film  / Production company: Driva Produktion / Producer: Anna Sunna, Mathias Fjellström (Salmonfox) / Writer: Mathias Fjällström / Director: Patricia Fjellgren / Granted: 300.000

Six-year-old Áile lies in bed in her room. She can’t sleep and begins to fantasize with her toy Selma about what might be happening outside her slightly open bedroom door. Áile hears noises in the kitchen and imagines that the ones out there aren’t her parents, but ulddas have taken their place.

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BISSEGH – SACRED

Documentary / Production company: Viehke AS / Producer: Tom Kappfjell  / Co-Production: Ulf Myrvold (Alvelandet Dokumentarproduksjon AS), Per Espen Stoknes (Stoknes Futures As) / Writer: Leif Stinnerbom / Director: Ulf Myrvold / Granted: 300.000

Tom, a Sami elder, is weighing whether to break the silence around secret offering traditions, while a young, modern Sami woman Ramona is searching for guidance into the traditions. Will the ancient knowledge be lost for ever? Or will she discover something worth passing on?

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More about Production grants

The production grant aims to secure the best possible quality of the film project. The grant is given to stimulate films in the Sami language and strengthen Sami filmmakers and producers.

Application deadlines for production grants are February 1st, May 1st, September 1st and December 1st.

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