OFFICIAL SELECTION - 2026 BERLIN FILM FESTIVAL
From debut director Elle Sofe Sara, the powerful, music-filled new drama ÁRRU follows a family of Sàmi reindeer herders whose fight to protect their Indigenous lands from a copper mining proposal exposes long-buried secrets.
Single mother Maia (Sara Marielle Gaup Beaska), her daughter Áilin (Ayla Nutti) and her brother Dánel (Simon Issát Marainen) live and work the starkly beautiful lands of Sápmi, northern Scandinavia - but their community and way of life face existential threat from encroaching industrialisation. As protests rise, Maia turns to her long-absent uncle, Lemme (Mikkel Gaup) - a charismatic lawyer - for help. But his presence soon reopens old family wounds, forcing Maia into an impossible reckoning between kinship and conscience
Weaving together grounded drama with bursts of traditional song and movement, the singular ÁRRU draws on Sámi cultural expression to explore inherited trauma, resilience, and connection to the land. A fierce and cathartic tale about reclaiming voice and standing firm for what endures.