Máhccan – Homecoming: Screening and Director’s Talk

The documentary "Máhccan - Homecoming" by director Suvi West is set in the Museum world in a turning point, where the national museums have to deal with their colonialistic history. The National Museum of Finland returned thousands of everyday objects taken from the indigenous Sámi people back to them.

Filmmaker Suvi West takes the audience behind the scenes of the museum world, revealing a visual, philosophical, and spiritual realm. She seeks a connection with ancestors through old museum objects, eventually arriving at the collective pain points of the Sámi people. How can the damage caused by outsiders be repaired so that collective pains can be left behind? The film will be followed by a discussion with Suvi West and Mikko Fritze (Finnish Institute in Germany).

The screening is followed by an In-conversation with Suvi West and Matti Aikio, Co-Curator of Through our Eyes: Sámi Art and Culture.

About Suvi WestSuvi West is an award-winning director and script writer. She has directed several short films and two feature documentaries, Me and My Little Sister and Eatnameamet - Our Silent Struggle. Her films have been screened in film festivals around the world and distributed in European TV channels. In 2019 she was selected to be one of the directors present in Venice Biennale in Finland’s pavilion.