Paul-Anders Simma

My Dear Mother

My Dear Mother is about the 15-year-old girl Dasha who lives in an orphanage in a small town in Russia. We follow her for five years, in all the thoughts she has about growing up in orphanages. She wonders why her mother left her. Until her grandmother died, she lived with her grandparents, who were Russian Sami. Dasha's father is in jail and her mother was a drug addict. Dasha would like to have contact with her roots and she wants to keep her Sami identity.

Beyond Day and Night

A young Sami boy, accustomed to the comfort of Swedish modern life, spend time with his grandfather in the mountains. Superstition, boredom and no freestyle.. After a while, however, he begins to understand what his grandfather represents.