Three shorts:

Three shortfilms: 

Reidun- between past and present

Trygve- home and cultural 

About Piera

The two shortfilmsReidun- between past and present and Trygve - home and cultural environment in rehabilitation are to imagine how Elders from the Norwegian High North manage life in old age. Both Reidun and Trygve are Sami Indigenous people. Reidun is 91 years old, and is living with her son. She tells in her own voice what is important for her to promote health and stay at home. Trygve is 77 years old and is living home - alone. He is a fisherman and has his own boat. He has suffered from stroke, and his motivation to recover, is to continue living as a fisherman. What he has done to recover, he tells us in his own voice. The overall goal is to demonstrate using film to tell an old persons story, what we gain by using film telling about Elders, and what does it means to be so close to the old one – here Reidun and Trygve.

The films last around 10 minutes each.

The shortfilm is about Piera – a Sámi person with disability living in a Sami community in the North.Jovnna is coming from a reindeer herding family in Finnmark, Norway. He is 59 years old. To-day he lives in an area where the Sámi are a minority locally and where the Norwegian language dominates. Areas like these are, among others, the rural Sámi districts in the Arctic region of Norway.

The film tells about Piera being a Sami and how different culturally conventions influence his attitude to disability - without losing his dignity. He tells in his own voice what it means to be a Sami living with disability, how important it is for him to participate as an equal human being in the Sami and Norwegian society, and what he has done to maintain and develop the Sami culture, values and beliefs through his music (joik).

The film last around 10 minutes after a short introduction