-Date: 11 May-

6 wins & 8 nominations including 2023 Norwegian Academy Award – Best Film, Best Director and Best Supporting Actor.

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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.

During summer 1979, Ester (Ella Marie Hætta Isakse) moves to Alta in Northern Norway to begin teaching in an elementary school. Like many Sámi at the time, she is ashamed of her heritage and conceals her ethnicity by going to great lengths to fit in. When her cousin Mikkhal takes her to a camp by the Alta River where people are demonstrating against the building of a dam, Ester learns how the fight for the river is also a revolt against years of discrimination against her people. She finds her voice and takes a stand inspiring countless others.