Folktales

In the life-affirming film by Oscar®-nominated filmmakers Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, teenagers come together at a traditional folk high school in Arctic Norway where they must rely only on themselves, each other and a loyal pack of sled dogs as they all grow in unexpected directions. In Norse mythology, the three 'Norns' are powerful deities who weave the threads of fate and shape the future of humans. Today, Pasvik Folk High School in northern Norway seeks to have a similarly life-changing effect on its students. FOLKTALES tells the timely and heartwarming story of teenagers who choose to spend an unconventional 'gap year' learning dog sledding and survival in the Arctic wilderness, hoping to find connection and meaning in the modern world. Guided by patient teachers and a yard full of heroic Alaskan huskies, they discover their own potential and develop deep relationships with the land, the animals and the people around them. Through intimate, truthful storytelling and exciting cinematography, Ewing and Grady explore people on the threshold of adulthood, finding themselves at the edge of the world.