Áhkuin
Finland | 2024 | 21 min. | Radio-Jus Sunná / Sunná Nousuniemi (Sámi), Guhtur Niillas Rita Duomis / Tuomas Kumpulainen (Sámi)
Áhkuin is a visual and poetic musical call-and-response between a grandmother and her descendants.
- Director: Radio-Jus Sunná / Sunná Nousuniemi (Sámi), Guhtur Niillas Rita Duomis / Tuomas Kumpulainen (Sámi)
- Principal Cast: Niillasaš-Jovnna Máret / Maarit Nousuniemi, Jovnna Máreha Juhani / Juhani Nousuniemi, Gáva-Áslaga Laura / Laura Tapiola, Radio-JusSunná / Sunná Nousuniemi
- Premiere Status: North American
- Country: Finland
- Year: 2024
- Running Time: 21 min.
- Producer: Kavita Pillay, Tracy Rector (Choctaw/Seminole), Adam Mazo, Taylor Hensel (Cherokee)
- Screenplay: Radio-JusSunná / Sunná Nousuniemi and Guhtur Niillas Rita Duomis / Tuomas Kumpulainen
- Cinematographers: Kevin Francett
- Editors: Sauli Pillay
- Website: Official Film Website
- Filmography: Boso mu ruovttoluotta - Breathe Me Back to Life (2022)
- Language: Northern Sámi
This film is playing as a part of Moving Poetry: Indigenous Stories
This selection of short, Indigenous-made films exemplifies the poetic language of the body as memory, cultural healing, and relationship to the natural world.
