Folktales
Guests Expected
Directors Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing are expected to attend for a post-screening Q&A.
Description
Exhausted by loneliness, social anxiety, and all the crushing pressures felt by Gen Z, Hege, Romain, and Bjørn Tore make the daring decision to leave the comforts of home to enroll in a traditional “folk high school” in the wilds of northern Norway. Dropped in the arctic wilderness for one year, Hege, Romain, and Bjørn Tore must rely on themselves and a ragtag pack of loyal sled dogs as they take the daunting step from childhood to adulthood. Freed of technology, social media, and the noise of modern life, this brave trio of teenagers learn to face themselves for the first time – and experience an unexpected, wondrous transformation.
Recommended for ages 11 and up.
PRESENTED IN COLLABORATION WITH
Heidi Ewing is a partner with Rachel Grady in Loki Films. Their prolific collaboration has yielded features, shorts, and series episodes. In 2020, they made Love Fraud, a miniseries that was nominated for a Film Independent Spirit Award for Best New Non-Scripted or Documentary Series. She made her narrative directing debut with I Carry You with Me (2020), winner of the Sundance Film Festival’s NEXT Innovator Award and Best of NEXT! Audience Award and a Film Independent Spirit Awards nominee for Best First Feature.
Rachel Grady made her directorial debut with Mad Justice (2004). A year later, she co-directed with Heidi Ewing The Boys of Baraka (Festival 2005), a News & Documentary Emmy Awards nominee and the winner of an NAACP Image Award. Among their feature collaborations are Oscar® nominee Jesus Camp (2006), 12th & Delaware (2010), Detropia (2012), Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You (2016), One of Us (2017), and Endangered (2022).
Film Details
LanguageEnglish, Norwegian
Year2025
PremiereCalifornia
Runtime106
CountryUSA, Norway
DirectorHeidi Ewing, Rachel Grady
ProducerHeidi Ewing, Rachel Grady
Executive ProducerMary Lisio, Jenny Raskin, Ryan Heller, Christine Connor, Michael Bloom, Ian Stratford, Regina K. Scully, Lisa Schejola Akin, Jeffrey Akin, Maiken Baird, Ian Darling
EditorNathan Punwar
CinematographerLars Tubaas Øymo
MusicT. Griffin
Print SourceLoki Films
Closed CaptionsClosed Captions are currently confirmed for this film
Audio DescriptionAudio Descriptions are not currently confirmed for this film
American Sign Language (ASL) InterpretationAmerican Sign Language Interpretation is not currently scheduled for this film
