Movies and TvShows featuring "reindeer-herding" theme.

In the wilderness of Finnish Lapland, a recently married woman discovers her shapeshifting abilities and transforms into a vampire. As she embraces her new identity, she goes on a hunt for human blood and becomes entangled in a curse. With the help of a shaman and her reindeer herd, she must find a way to break the curse and save herself from eternal darkness.

A Sixth Part of the World (1926) is a documentary that explores the industrialization and cultural diversity of the Soviet Union in the 1920s. It showcases different regions and customs, highlighting the progress made in agriculture and industry. The film emphasizes the communist ideals of equality and the development of a communist society.

In the remote Finnish Lapland, a mine owner hides a murder weapon and his estranged son finds himself on the run. As he tries to escape, he encounters reindeer herders, drug deals, and explosive secrets. The Last Ones is a gripping story of survival, family, and hidden dangers.

A letter from filmmaker Chris Marker to his friends in France, narrating his observations and thoughts during his trip to Siberia. The film combines real footage with animated sequences, offering a unique perspective on the region.

An anthology of stories about the indigenous nomadic people of the Russian tundra under modern Communist rule. Finland's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2000

Originally made as an ad for reindeer meat but includes notable documentary material from Lapland. A young couple from Helsinki goes to a restaurant and gets to know reindeer meat.

A tragedy told by an American visiting Lapland about Aila, daughter of a reindeer herder, who falls in love with Reino, a reindeer thief.

Selling the Silence is a creative documentary film. It witnesses the rise and fall of one family of entrepreneurs, the Kuukkanen family from Salla, Lapland, side-by-side with the current changes in the values of our society. In combining private and personal family memories with ongoing changes in the scenery, the documentary asks: How to avoid irreversible changes in the nature when earning your living? Selling the Silence is a journey to the North, past and present. Sometimes the journey can be surprising, sometimes sad, sometimes absurd in a black Finnish way. When the film asks: ”What is the price of the wilderness?”, it is also a question of identity: Who you really are? What is your real nature?

Examines the extraordinary lifelong friendship between Skolt Sámi storyteller Kaisa Gauriloff and the Swiss-Russian author Robert Crottet through the eyes of Gauriloff’s great-granddaughter Katja.

focuses on the area of Siberia around Irkutsk city. The materials shown depict the lives of Buryat people in the modern city, as well as in the countryside – as hunters, herders, and workers. The mainstay agricultural animals depicted are sheep, yak and reindeer. We see city scenes – people playing tennis, soccer, and working, in the postwar Irkutsk, as well as an shot of a research institute - "Ginzoloto", which played a key rôle in the postwar Soviet re-industrialization, discovery and use of the mineral ores, crucial for the nuclear industry. The movie shows the traditional culture and crafts of the Buryat people, particularly their pipe-smoking tradition, and the belief systems they practice – an animist ceremony at the local shaman's house and a Lamaist Buddhism prayer at an unidentified dazan-monastery.

Documentary short about Finnish Lapland.

A woman from Lapland falls in love with a Viennese soldier during World War II, becomes pregnant and leaves Finland. She gives birth in Hamburg, but later becomes home-sick and returns to her country. The woman is Mari Soppela’s grandmother, the starting point of Soppela’s film, Family Files. Naturally, it is only the start of the film: in the Soppela family saga, it is merely one link in an endless chain.

Father, Son and Holy Torum is a documentary comedy-drama set in Siberia, exploring the life of a nomad and the challenges he faces in a rapidly changing world. The film showcases the clash between tradition and globalization, highlighting issues such as environmental concerns, oil drilling, and cultural preservation. It delves into the relationships between family members and the impact of economic factors on their way of life.