The Film Institute distributes support to promote access to films in the national minority languages.
Now Tjállegoathe in Jokkmokk, Dieselverkstaden in Nacka, Cnema in Haninge municipality and Norrköping municipality have been granted support to work in film education and show films in the national minority languages.
– The support means that we can invite schools and preschools to film screenings at our place at Tjállegoahte. It gives children with Sami as their mother tongue an opportunity to take part in a film in a public context in their own language, which is not the norm, says Malin Lantto, administrator at Tjállegoahte and continues:
– Even in Jokkmokk, films in Sami are not shown in the public cinema more than occasionally. It gives children struggling to regain their language motivation to continue and a sense of inclusion.
“Can make the national minorities visible”
Cnema in the municipality of Norrköping plans during the year that part of the school cinema program will focus thematically on films that can be linked to Sweden’s national minorities and the national minority languages.
– For us, the support means that we can make the Swedish national minorities and the national minority languages visible in a new way that we have not done before via school cinema. We are starting a program series of school cinema screenings during a week where we focus on one minority group per semester, says Yvonne Olofsson, media educator at Cnema and continues:
– The target group is junior high and high school classes within the municipality of Norrköping who are invited to the school cinema and talks. The selection of films and talks is made with representatives from the individual reference group. First up is the Swedish-Finnish group.