Garrat du válmnu-Strain your heart

Amanda Kernell is a Swede by nationality and ethnic Sami from the south. In the year 7000 before Christ there was already a Sami people in northern Europe, almost on the border with the sky. They were fishing, hunting reindeer, grazing.

The ages of the earth and the times of mankind passed. The conquerors came. The massacres began, the efforts to destroy the Sami. By sword, by spark, to cause famine, to attack the dignity of the people, to sterilize women, to intoxicate men, to force them into the world of white men, by force, the most traditional, most traditional, most conquering manners.

But the Sami resisted. The price to be paid was very high: today, there are no more than 92,000 Sami in the world.

The oppressed people often stand up again. In the 19th century the Sami began to organize their traditional festivities again. The white society also began to change, to crush the Sami.

The cinema was there, witness, cause of change, tool of struggle and denunciation.

There have been some interesting films about the Sami, even the odd ones, co-produced with France, Jour polaire, in which one of the two policemen who were going to investigate a murder was a North African Berber and the other was a Sami.

1952 is again the fantastic Peura de Valkoin (White Deer Snow). On the screen appear the multiple traditions of the Sami, the parties, the dances , the rites. In that 2023 Ellos eatnu - La elva leve (Let 's Run the River), frightened of its Sami origin, the process of sovereignty  of a ashamed teacher  is told.

Perhaps the most curious story is Frozenby Walt Disney. Yes, the two princesses live in the icy lands and palaces of the North. Yes, they have Sami blood in their veins.

There, with the witness, the flag and the camera around his neck.

Amanda Kernell, of Swedish nationality and southern Sami origin, is the filmmaker Amanda Kernell. Amanda's first long Sameblad (samiodola) portrays a 13-year-old girl who has to hide her origins in order to socialize in white and European Sweden.

Amanda Kernell, who has just exhibited at the San Sebastian Film Festival her second work, a violent, bold work, and has won the award for the best director, is entitled Garrat du válmnu and, although it is much more than ethnic clamour, it is of great importance that it be filmed among the Sami, played by the Sami, made by the Sami.

The Sami do not speak one language, but eleven. The Sami understand each other with difficulty. Amanda speaks Sami from the south. But the film is located in the north of the Sami lands. Amanda spent months learning the language of the natives.

Amanda spoke in Spanish, Sami and English in San Sebastian. She felt pleasure in presenting the film Speak bitterly in the people who have Euskera, in the people who defend it.

On the same days, Elsa Oliarj-Inès, a Basque born in Occitania, shared Txakun-Txakür with the audience and won the Irizar Prize.

Finally, on the Netflix platform you have at your disposal Stöld (Stolen) by the Swedish writer Helen Laestadius, a thriller, a noir , a polar , a black, dark story.

Blessed [are] all the minority languages in the cinema.