Sverre Porsanger

Sverre Porsanger

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The Tundra Within Me
Title: The Tundra Within Me
Released: February 9, 2024
Type: Movie
After living in Oslo for many years, Lena moves back to Sápmi in northern Norway with her young son, to explore Sami gender in an art project. While researching in the wintry tundra, she falls in love with reindeer herder Máhtte, whose mother, the head of the family, disapproves of the relationship. As decisions from the past come to haunt her, Lena struggles to find out whether her and Máhtte’s lifestyles can ever be compatible.
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Let the River Flow
Title: Let the River Flow
Released: February 3, 2023
Type: Movie
During summer 1979, Ester moves to Alta in Northern Norway to begin teaching at an elementary school. Like many Sámi at the time, she is ashamed of her heritage and conceals her ethnicity. Ester goes to great lengths to fit in, even joining in with the derogatory jokes. 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 the years of brutal racism and discrimination against her people. After a major confrontation with the police, Mikkhal and some other Sámi decide to go to Oslo to hunger strike in front of the Parliament. Knowing what is at stake, Ester realises it is time to make a stand…
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Covid side-effects
Title: Covid side-effects
Released: December 31, 2020
Type: Movie
This hilarious short film Covid side effects shows how pandemic and physical distancing times can be helpful when trying to break up with a partner with whom one hasn't had strong passionate feelings in long time.
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Title: Lilyhammer
Character: Dr. Utsi
Released: January 25, 2012
Type: TV
After Frank The Fixer Tagliano testifies against his Mafia boss in New York, he enters the Witness Protection Program and makes an unusual demand: he wants to be set up with a new life in the Norwegian small town of Lillehammer or as he calls it, Lilyhammer.
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The Kautokeino Rebellion
Title: The Kautokeino Rebellion
Character: Ruth's Assistant
Released: January 18, 2008
Type: Movie
Religious and cultural reawakening inspires rebellion in a 19th century Norwegian village.
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Misa Mi
Title: Misa Mi
Character: Gustav's Father
Released: December 19, 2003
Type: Movie
When her mother died, 10 year old girl Misa's world stopped. And when her father, along with his new girlfriend, wants to spend the summer in the Swedish province Skåne, she refuses to go with them. Misa's father reluctantly agrees that she can stay with her grandmother in Arjeplog over the summer instead. In the deep forest of northern Sweden, Misa find more than she ever could imagine; she meets a wolf with cubs that Misa develop a deep and strange connection with. But the wolf spreads fear in the small village and someone has hired a poacher to kill it and her cubs...
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Bázo
Title: Bázo
Character: Emil
Released: September 12, 2003
Type: Movie
At school they used to call him Bázo, a Sami expression for a slightly retarded person. In his village they still use the name behind his back. In a way it is true. Emil is not the smartest person in the little mountain village where he lives with his father. he never even learned how to read or write properly.
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Detector
Title: Detector
Character: Ante
Released: August 25, 2000
Type: Movie
Daniel Jor is a 28-year-old psychiatrist, still living with his mom. He and his friend Ronny have one thing in common, they like searching for metallic objects in the ground. One day they find a jewel with the name "Janne" imprinted. This is the beginning of something big for Daniel. His life will never be the same. He's about to discover a lot of hidden secrets, about himself and others.
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The Minister of State
Title: The Minister of State
Character: Johan Jaha
Released: January 25, 1997
Type: Movie
A man uses a case of mistaken identity to gain the confidence of a small village, and in the process exposes universal human traits: honour, greed, honesty, and eventually love.
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Title: Solens sønn og månens datter
Character: Johan Nutti
Released: April 18, 1993
Type: TV
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Pathfinder
Title: Pathfinder
Character: Sierge
Released: September 3, 1987
Type: Movie
Around the year 1000 AD warlike people, the so-called "tjuder", roam in northern Scandinavia. As they brutally kill a family in a remote area, including the parents and their little daughter, the family's teenage son, Aigin, observes the slaughter. He manages to flee from these killers and reaches a camp with other Sámi whose inhabitants are worried if he has been able to hide his track. Afraid of the murderous people, they decide to flee to the coast. The boy stays alone to avenge his family's murder. Unfortunately, they get him before he can do anything and force him to lead them to the other Sámi. He guides them but has a plan to destroy the barbarous people before reaching the camp.
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The Boy from Lapland
Title: The Boy from Lapland
Character: Ante
Released: December 26, 1976
Type: Movie
The story of the Saami boy Antes experiences during a year of his life