Greater than Ourselves

Anita Lervoll

Year of Production: 2004 Category: C-film Duration: 35 min. Sound: mono Language: Norwegian, English Contact the director

Copyright: 2004 Visual Cultural Studies, University of Tromsø
For distribution, please contact:
Gøril Skotnes
Marit Gjertsen


The indigenous peoples-festival, Riddu Riddu, “a storm by the coast”, was arranged for the 12th time in Gàivuotna/Kåfjord, Northern Norway in the summer of 2003.During the festival-week the population in the small village is tripled, and all those who work for the festival, except the producer, are volunteers. Altogether 300 people were involved in the work this year.This film is mainly about the people behind the festival, focused on the reasons why these people spend grate amounts of their time and energy on their work as volunteers for this festival.Parts of Riddu Riddu`s history will be portrayed, in addition to parts of the history of the Coastal Sami people in Norway. The film will also show glimpses of events during the festival-week: the children’s festival, seminars, classes and concerts.