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The Last Generation? Sami Reindeer Herders in Swedish Lapland
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The Last Generation? Sami Reindeer Herders in Swedish Lapland

91 MIN · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]
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Henrik Andersson herds reindeer for the Gällivare forest Sami community in Swedish Lapland, and the film follows him across a single year as he tries to keep the old way of life going. The camera stays close to daily work: moving animals through forest terrain, the physical grind of the seasons, and the conversations Andersson has about what his community has already lost to logging, mining, and land disputes with the Swedish state. He talks plainly about the pressure on forest Sami herding specifically, a way of life distinct from the more visible mountain reindeer culture, and about whether it can survive another generation. There is no narrator smoothing over the gaps; Andersson's own account of the daily problems and the threats ahead carries the film. Shot over 2012 and 2013, it stays small in scope, one herder, one community, one uncertain future, and lets that specificity stand in for the larger question of how Sweden treats its indigenous population.