Film

In The Shadow of The Midnight Sun

In the Shadow of the Midnight Sun is a creative documentary – and a multi-screen installation – presented through the eyes of a Syrian refugee, displaced from his homeland and now travelling across the Arctic landscape as he tries to come to terms with his feelings of loss and emptiness in this unknown land.

The narrator’s reflections are interwoven with the seemingly disparate lives of those he encounters on his journey: local residents in the village of Sakajärvi and the town of Malmberget who are undergoing their own experience of displacement, a Sami musician who collaborates with him, a Sami farmer who explains how they live in an shifting envrionment, and others who, like him at in search for answers.

As he travels through this extreme landscape of the midnight summer sun and the long winter night, will these new friends help him negotiate his past and discover his own belonging within this new world?