Sami Blood: Feeling Stigmatized By Your Origins

  Sami Blood is a charming film, the kind that’s hard to find. It’s measured in its staging yet shocking in its argument. In fact, it’s a movie that denounces the xenophobia of society toward a minority, while also recognizing the sufferer’s own role in these kinds of situations. Sami Blood takes us into an unknown history of supremacist Sweden with a story of the Samis. They were indigenous people who lived in regions of Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Russia. It’s a story of identity and personal struggle. It’s the 1930s. Elle Marja, 14, is a young Lappish woman exposed…