Venue: Harstad Kino, screen 1

English subtitles

The AMIFF 2024 opening film is The Tundra Within Me by Sara Margrethe Oskal. The lead actress Risten Anine Kvernmo Gaup was nominated for the Norwegian Oscar, Amanda, for her role in the film this year. Gaup has family from the local area of Harstad. Gaup will be in conversation with Bård Borch Michalsen after the screening. The conversation will be in norwegian, but the film has english subtitles.

Kvernmo Gaup will also be part of the commisioned work for AMIFF 2024, which will be an audiovisual performance by Dubmorphology at Várdobáiki Sami Centre November 9th.

About the film The Tundra Within Me:

After living for many years in Oslo, Lena moves back to Sápmi in Northern Norway with her young son to explore Sami gender in an art project. While researching in the wintry tundra, she falls in love with reindeer herder Máhtte - whose mother, the head of the family, disapproves of the relationship. As decisions from the past come to haunt her, Lena struggles to find out whether her and Máhtte's lifestyles can ever be compatible.

The film had it's world premiere at Toronto International Film Festival in 2023.

Sami language

English subtitles.

Runtime: 95 min

PG-12