Amid the beauty of Northern Norway, reindeer herder Maia leads her family in a desperate fight to save their ancestral grazing lands from a looming mining project. When her charismatic uncle Lemme returns to spearhead the resistance, his presence reignites buried traumas, threatening to tear the family apart.
As protest camps rise and the community rallies, tensions mount between past and future. Maia faces an impossible choice: risk the safety of her family to preserve their way of life, or sacrifice their land to break the cycle of silence.
Elle Sofe Sara is a choreographer, director, and filmmaker.
Sara’s work expands upon the seemingly mundane, often overlooked areas of Sámi physicality—unspoken rituals that have escaped the vice grip of colonialism. Sara uncovers a space in which the past and the present coincide.
Hailing from Guovdageaidnu, Norway, Sara holds an MA in choreography from the Oslo Academy of Arts (2010) and studied dance at the Laban Centre of Contemporary Dance in London. When she is not working with choreography or film, or traveling for work, Sara can be found marking reindeer calves with her children or reading animal tracks in the snow.
Norway, Sweden, Finland.
