Suodji
Title | Suodji |
English title | Shelter |
Director | Marja Helander |
Country | Finland, Norway |
Year | 2020 |
Color | Colour |
Genre | Experimental, Documentary, Fiction |
Duration | 00:05:00 |
Festival year | 2022 |
Selected for Festival | No |
Online rental | No |
On-Site rental | No |
A present-day adaptation of an old story from Utsjoki, Sápmi. It is a legend of the director’s relative, Ovllá-Ivvár Helander, about what he did during the Spanish flu epidemic in 1918 in Utsjoki. Ovllá-Ivvár decided to fool Death and take his fate into his own hands. The protagonist of the film is walking in Ovllá-Ivvár’s footsteps.