After years in Oslo, Sámi artist Lena returns with her child to the vast tundra of her homeland in Sápmi to do research for her feminist art project. She connects with reindeer herder Máhtte who struggles for recognition and responsibility within his family. As their lives intertwine, they navigate a powerful clash between tradition and self-determination.
Director & screenwriter Sara Margrethe Oskal and the Sámi actors bring the world of Sápmi to life from within, imbuing the film with the richness, resilience, and lived truth of their culture, heritage, history, and ongoing resistance.
After its industry-only premiere at the European Film Market (Berlinale 2024), this is the first public Berlin screening of »Eallogierdu – The Tundra Within Me«, in a carefully curated and moderated community space.
Following the 95-min screening (Sámi & Norwegian, EN subs), join an intimate discussion with the filmmaker, moderated by curator and host Canan Turan.
Sara Margrethe Oskal is a Sámi director, screenwriter, performer, actress, poet and joiker from Guovdageaidnu (Kautokeino), Norway. She worked for ten years as a reindeer herder on the Sápmi tundra before turning to theatre, performing arts, and cinema, and later earned a PhD in Performing Arts at the Oslo National Academy of Arts.
Her debut feature Eallogierdu – THE TUNDRA WITHIN ME premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2023 and won the TILDA Award for Best Film by a Female Director at the Braunschweig International Film Festival in 2024. Sara currently stars in the TV series Heajastallan – A Sámi Wedding (2026, NRK) and in the opera Ovllá at the Oulu Sinfonia (Finland). She is developing her next feature, A House in the Arctic.
The film.macht.kritisch. screening series – like the podcast – highlights intersectional feminist, queer, decolonial, and anti-discriminatory cinema. It centers stories of historically marginalized communities, challenges dominant narratives, and opens up new ways of seeing.
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