Let The River Flow (Norway/Sami with Eng Subs) Tue Night Oct 17
Tue, 17 Oct
|Caloundra
Set in 1979 and based on true events, this elegant, multi award-winning historical drama follows a young woman who questions her identity as she is unintentionally drawn into a protest against a dam that may flood Indigenous Sámi land in Norway. " Bold and gorgeous." Novastream
Time & Location
17 Oct 2023, 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Caloundra, 11 Bulcock St, Caloundra QLD 4551, Australia
About the Event
Let The River Flow movie trailer HERE
Based on true events that inspired a generation of young Norwegians, writer/director Ole Giæver’s elegant, multi award-winning historical drama follows a young woman who is unintentionally drawn into a protest against a dam that may flood Indigenous Sámi land.
Summer 1979. Recently graduated, 23-year-old schoolteacher Ester (magnetic newcomer Ella Marie Hætta Isaksen) has moved to the northern Norwegian town of Alta to begin her career. Like many Sámi – the native people of Scandinavia – Ester is ashamed of her heritage and conceals her ethnicity in order to blend in, to the great consternation of her mother.
Yet where she wears this integration uneasily, her cousin Mihkkal (Gard Emil) openly embraces his roots, and it’s he who takes Ester to see a camp by the river where a group is demonstrating against the government’s plan to build a hydroelectricity plant. Slowly understanding that the…
Tickets
Let The River Flow
$16.00
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