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Presenting the work of indigenous media makers—directors,
producers, actors, musicians, writers, and cultural activists—At
the Movies is screened between June and October, with invited
filmmakers and other speakers.
AT THE MOVIES is made possible with public funds from
the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency.
Best of the Sámi
Film Festival
 With
host Lars Ailo Gaup (Sámi), Beaivváš Sámi
Theater.
Now in its 12th year, the Sámi Film Festival, in Guovdageaidnu,
Norway, in the Arctic Circle, celebrates indigenous film at the
world's first ice cinema drive-in. NMAI is pleased to present
award-winning Sámi films from the past two festivals, with
stories that evoke the past and illuminate the contemporary lives
of the indigenous people of far northern Europe, in Norway, Sweden,
Finland and Russia. Invited filmmakers will introduce their work.
Ándagassii/Forgiveness,
Calmmis Calbmái/From
an Eye to an Eye, Eallonissonat/Herdswoman,
Ja,
Lihkastagat Gitta Doložis/And, Movements from the Past,
Last
Yoik in Sámi Forests?, and The
Wind Whispers There Is Someone Behind the Tundra
- Thursday, June 26 at 6:30 pm at Scandinavia House
58 Park Avenue (between 37th and 38th Streets), New York City
Tickets: $8 ($6 ASF & NMAI members)
- Saturday, June 28 at 2:00 pm at NMAI GGHC Auditorium
For directions, enter
here.
Screening is free to the public. For reservations call 212-514-3737
or e-mail FVC@si.edu.
This program is sponsored in part by the Andrew E. and G.
Norman Wigeland Fund of The American-Scandinavian Foundation and
the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
 Discussion
follows with the directors.
- Thursday, July 10, 6:00 pm
- Saturday, July 12, 2:00 pm
Screenings are held in the Auditorium of the George Gustav
Heye Center. For directions, enter
here. Admission to all screenings is free.
 The
Last Conquistador
This program is a co-presentation with P.O.V./The American
Documentary and the American Indian Community House.
- Thursday, September 18, 6:00 pm
Discussion follows with the directors.
For more information about P.O.V. go to www.pov.org.
Image credit: March
Point; The Wind Whispers There Is Someone Behind the Tundra;
March Point; Artist John Houser with head of Juan de Oñate
- Photo courtesy of The XII Travelers Committee
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