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2020

Finland, Norway, Sweden

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Paul Simma
Paul Simma
Margus Önapuu
Ellen Lotman
documentary
12+
82 min
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Finland, Norway, Sweden
SAFI
Paul Simma
Paul Simma
Margus Önapuu
Ellen Lotman
documentary
12+
82 min
My Dear Mother
Rakas äitini
Tasha is an eleven-year-old Lapp girl. She is an inmate of a Russian orphanage, even when she is not an orphan. Tasha believes that her mother is dead and that her father is in jail for life. To survive, she has found a Russian stepmother at the orphanage.
Selected festival history
2020-2021
Queen Palm International Film Festival, (Palm Springs,USA) (Silver prize)
Annual ReelHeART International Film Festival, (Toronto,Canada)
Interdoc film festival (Moscow, Russia),
The Pärnu int. Film festival (Parny, Estonia) (Estonian peoples TV-election price)
The Oulu international youth film festival (Oulu, Finland)
2020-2021
Queen Palm International Film Festival, (Palm Springs,USA) (Silver prize)
Annual ReelHeART International Film Festival, (Toronto,Canada)
Interdoc film festival (Moscow, Russia),
The Pärnu int. Film festival (Parny, Estonia) (Estonian peoples TV-election price)
The Oulu international youth film festival (Oulu, Finland)
2020-2021
Queen Palm International Film Festival, (Palm Springs,USA) (Silver prize)
Annual ReelHeART International Film Festival, (Toronto,Canada)
Interdoc film festival (Moscow, Russia),
The Pärnu int. Film festival (Parny, Estonia) (Estonian peoples TV-election price)
The Oulu international youth film festival (Oulu, Finland)
Paul Simma
DIRECTOR'S BIOGRAPHY:
Paul has 30 years of experience as a Director, Producer, Manager and Commissioning Editor in the Nordic countries. Paul directed and produced «To Kill A Reindeer», a 58' documentary, in 2012. His latest documentary film «Olga - To My Friends» was premiered at IDFA in 2013 awarded the Director's Prize at the Al Jazeera festival in 2014.

DIRECTOR'S FILMOGRAPHY:
2019 - My Dear Mother
2017 - Power of Yoik
2014 - Olga- To my Friends
2008 - How to kill a Bear
2003 - The boxer
2001 - Arctic heat
1999 - Give us Our Skeletoons
1998 - Minister of State
1996 - Dogs´life
1995 - Legacy of the Tundra
1994 - The Bear
1994 - Earth of wrath
1992 - Let´s dance
1989 - Beyond day and night
1982 - White mas law
1979 - Brothers and sisters
1978 Lovozero – Sami town in the Soviet Union
Paul Simma
DIRECTOR'S BIOGRAPHY:
Paul has 30 years of experience as a Director, Producer, Manager and Commissioning Editor in the Nordic countries. Paul directed and produced «To Kill A Reindeer», a 58' documentary, in 2012. His latest documentary film «Olga - To My Friends» was premiered at IDFA in 2013 awarded the Director's Prize at the Al Jazeera festival in 2014.

DIRECTOR'S FILMOGRAPHY:
2019 - My Dear Mother
2017 - Power of Yoik
2014 - Olga- To my Friends
2008 - How to kill a Bear
2003 - The boxer
2001 - Arctic heat
1999 - Give us Our Skeletoons
1998 - Minister of State
1996 - Dogs´life
1995 - Legacy of the Tundra
1994 - The Bear
1994 - Earth of wrath
1992 - Let´s dance
1989 - Beyond day and night
1982 - White mas law
1979 - Brothers and sisters
1978 Lovozero – Sami town in the Soviet Union
Paul Simma
DIRECTOR'S BIOGRAPHY:
Paul has 30 years of experience as a Director, Producer, Manager and Commissioning Editor in the Nordic countries. Paul directed and produced «To Kill A Reindeer», a 58' documentary, in 2012. His latest documentary film «Olga - To My Friends» was premiered at IDFA in 2013 awarded the Director's Prize at the Al Jazeera festival in 2014.

DIRECTOR'S FILMOGRAPHY:
2019 - My Dear Mother
2017 - Power of Yoik
2014 - Olga- To my Friends
2008 - How to kill a Bear
2003 - The boxer
2001 - Arctic heat
1999 - Give us Our Skeletoons
1998 - Minister of State
1996 - Dogs´life
1995 - Legacy of the Tundra
1994 - The Bear
1994 - Earth of wrath
1992 - Let´s dance
1989 - Beyond day and night
1982 - White mas law
1979 - Brothers and sisters
1978 Lovozero – Sami town in the Soviet Union