Sami film festival

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The Sami Film Festival ( North Sami : Sami Filbmafeastivála ; engl. : Sami Film Festival ; norw. : Samisk film festival ) is an international Film Festival , which every year since 1996 to Easter in Kautokeino in Norwegian Fylke Finn Mark og Troms takes place. Focus of the festival form films by and for the indigenous people of the seeds were made.

A special feature of the festival is that some of the films are shown on a screen made of snow. The performances that are shown outside also include seats and walls made of ice and snow, with the shape of the ice cinema varying from year to year. The Eiskino and is the only snowmobile - Drive-in movie theater in the world, in which the audience with motor or reindeer sleigh arrive, and can view them on the films.

The Sami Film Festival works together with other festivals from the USA or Poland, for example , which gives Sami filmmakers the opportunity to show their films to a larger audience. The festival cooperates in the training area with the Sami Film Center, which is also located in Kautokeino. Around 55 films will be shown and courses and seminars will be held over the course of the three-day festival.

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