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FOLKTALES review and August 2025 special screenings
It's a beautifully-shot crowd-pleaser, with protagonists who are easy to root for to find their bliss—and the love of a good dog—in this world.
Folktales Folktales As much as directors Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing embrace the specificity of their setting—Finnmark, Norway's Pasvik Folk High School, an Arctic circle venue for learning age-old skills like wilderness survival and running a sled-dog team—they also find something impressively universal about the struggle of young people to understand themselves and their place in the modern world.
The filmmakers focus on three students of the year-long program, watching as 18- and 19-year-olds wrestle with self-image issues, social anxiety and more, all within the context of a curriculum…
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