With a face hardened by years of hurt, chain-smoking Lida sets out alongside niece Sanna to clear out their long-held family home in preparation for its sale. Lida’s instinct to burn anything and everything connected to her past is quickly overcome by memories of a warm childhood spent fishing with a loving grandfather; of railing against the boarding school that tried to beat the Sámi identity out of her; and of being a young woman whose only option was a marriage that could take her far away from her Native roots. Filmed in gorgeous black and white, Je’vida is the first ever to be filmed in the Skolt Sámi dialect, only spoken by roughly 300 people.
