INDIGENOUS PEOPLES FILM FESTIVAL

Indigenous Peoples Film Festival
The Skábmagovat - Indigenous Peoples Film Festival is arranged every year during Kaamos-(the endless night) time, in the end of January.  The festival which has established a position of being a international film forum especially for indigenous people shows both old and new Sámi and other indigenous peoples film and tv-productions.

The theme for each year are the Sámi and a group of other indigenous people. The festival has had guests from ia. Australia, Canada, Brazil, Hawaii, Mexico, New Zeeland, Russia, Niger, USA and Asia.

The Skábmagovat festival is six days long. The first two days are the childrens and youths own Skábmagovat festival days. The festival offers three days of program aimed for adults and one day aimed for students in the region.

In the future todays´ children and youth are the windows of the culture and time we live in now, so the festival wants to offer them a diverse program, rich of culture.
During the Skábmagovat childrens´ festival there are different film and tv productions shown and workshops such as making tv-programs, radioworkshop, filmmaking, childrens fairytale workshop arranged. These festival days are arranged in inari-, skolt- and northern sámi languages.

Films are shown in three different theatres; Siida Auditorium, Lake Inari theatre and the Nothern Lights Theatre. The Northern Lights Theatre is made entirely of snow. This unique theatre, is built every year in the middle of the Northern pine forest and can be reached by a path lit with candles. The sky is the theatres roof with the moon and the stars and if you are lucky the Aurora Borealis might give the visitor an extra experience. The coldest shows have taken place in a temperature of -40 degrees celcius.

The festival has been given the Lapland Arts Price in 2007.

The festival is arranged by the Friends of Sámi Art, the Sámi Museum and Nature Centre SIIDA, YLE Sámi Radio, the Sámi Parliament and the municipality of Inari.