Mari Boine Group - Live at JazzBaltica 1997

Solju: Live @ G Livelab Helsinki

2018

The group SOLJU, formed by Ulla Pirttijärvi and her daughter Hildá Länsman, combines their heritage of northern Sámi language and traditional chant, known as yoik, with a desire for new and innovative music. SOLJU provides a dialogue of traditional and modern Sámi culture. Solju is proud of their indigenous roots and want to show it to the world. Sámi culture and identity lie at the heart of the music, reflecting mythology and aspects of the traditional lifestyles of their homeland. The listener is taken to the far north of Europe: Sápmi. Solju soundscape ranges from the expansive wilderness of the tundra to the most intimate lávvu fireplace. The music can be described as vivacious, colourful, earthy, ethereal, and genuine. Recorde live at G Livelab, Helsinki, April 25, 2018. Songs from Solju's debut album "Odda Áigodat" (New Times), produced by Samuli Laiho and Teho Majamäki, mixed by Riku Mattila.

Esbjorn Svensson Trio & Schelswig-Holstein Chamber Orchestra feat. Pat Metheny - Jazz Baltica

2003 · ★ 6.5

Esbjörn Svensson Trio & Schleswig-Holstein Chamber Orchestra feat. Pat Metheny – Live at JazzBaltica 2003 brings together modern European jazz, orchestral depth and Metheny’s lyrical guitar voice. The concert moves between delicate textures, driving rhythms and expansive ensemble passages, while the trio’s improvisational energy remains at its core. The result is adventurous, elegant and emotionally charged, capturing a rare meeting of jazz intimacy and symphonic scale.

Shuteen Erdenebaatar Quartet - Live at JazzBaltica

2025

Shuteen Erdenebaatar Quartet – Live at JazzBaltica presents a vivid meeting of lyrical piano, rhythmic precision and adventurous modern jazz. Erdenebaatar leads the ensemble with expressive touch and elegant control, moving effortlessly between delicate passages and more driving, energetic sections. The quartet responds with close interplay, rich dynamics and confident improvisation, creating a performance that feels intimate, contemporary and full of discovery.

Evelyn Kryger - Live at JazzBaltica 2021

Evelyn Kryger – Live at JazzBaltica 2021 is a vibrant fusion of jazz, world music and driving rhythmic traditions. The ensemble combines expressive violin and saxophone lines with keyboards, bass and percussion, moving confidently between atmospheric passages and explosive grooves. With pieces such as “Istanbul,” “Balcancan” and “Socarabica,” the concert feels adventurous, colourful and full of restless live energy.

Mot vinden

2025

No synopsis available.

Daughters of the Midnight Sun

1985

In the film about "the land of eternal light and eternal darkness" we meet some women who talk about their lives. The women have all grown up in reindeer herding families and as children they lived in kotas, moved with reindeer and lived a life in nature. Their own children, on the other hand, have grown up in "normal" Swedish society. None of them have lived like their parents. The film addresses Sami culture, language, school. How modern technology has affected the lives of the Sami.

Duoddara árbi

1994 · ★ 7

There's a funeral in Sapmi. The dead is the father of 17-year old John-Andreas. He now remembers what his father told him shortly before his death. Will John-Andreas manage to take over? It's tough to continue, when reindeers keep disappearing.

Wimme

2001

Wimme Saari is one of the best known Sami yoikers from Finland. He combines traditional Sami singing with his own improvisations, usually to a techno-ambient accompaniment by members of Finnish electronic group RinneRadio. Wimme has also appeared on the albums of other bands or musicians, for instance Hedningarna, Nits or Hector Zazou.

Made in Tärnaby

1990

Follows Astrid & Sune as they show techniques and methods of sami handcraft.

När vi var samer

2025

When Mats' grandfather dies the family opens a wooden box containing evidence of the family's Sami heritage. Why has this been kept secret? Why did they stop being Sami? And why do they know so little about their history?

Tema: Samer

2008

The Sámi people (also spelled Sami or Saami) are an indigenous Finno-Ugric people inhabiting Sápmi, which today encompasses large northern parts of Norway and Sweden, northern parts of Finland, and the Kola Peninsula within the Murmansk Oblast of Russia. A single daily newspaper is published in Northern Sámi, Ávvir. There are short daily news bulletins in Northern Sámi on national TV in Norway, Sweden and Finland. There is a Sámi theatre, Beaivvas, in Kautokeino on the Norwegian side, as well as in Kiruna on the Swedish side. The largest Sami Publishing house is Davvi Girji. In this program "Topic: Sámi" filmmaker Nils Gaup presents his latest production, "The Kautokeino Rebellion" (2008), author Ann-Helen Laestadius talks about to seek ones roots, and Isabel Pavval share how it is being a young Sámi and youth culture.

In the Land of the Mountain People: Days in Lapland

1923

The everyday life of the Karesuando Sámi at the Sarek Mountains, near their camp, the sita. Traditionally, the Sámi have pursued a variety of livelihoods, including coastal fishing, fur trapping, and sheep herding. Their best-known means of livelihood is semi-nomadic reindeer herding. The genetic makeup of Sámi people has been extensively studied for as long as such research has been in existence. Ethnographic photography of the Sámi began with the invention of the camera in the 19th century. This continued on into the 1920s and 1930s, when Sámi , against their will, were photographed naked and anatomically measured by scientists,.