Suomi tuli Saamenmaahan

After World War II, Sámi children in Finland were taken to boarding schools, where they lived in the midst of an unfamiliar language and culture. They were seldom allowed to go home. It was forbidden to speak Sámi at the dormitories. Teaching was Finnish in nature. Assimilation into Finnish culture lefts its marks in the Sámi. Kirsti Länsman, Matti Morottaja and Iisko Sara who grew up in the dormitories of Inari, Ville Hallikainen whose parents were Finnish teachers, and Kaija Maijala who was the caretaker of the dormitory, reminisce about this traumatic time, recalling how confused and homesick the children were in the strange environment. (Skábmagovat-elokuvajuhla)