Powerful and timely, the acclaimed Sámi youth series Shut Up (Oro Jaska) continues to rack up accolades, following up on its Banff World Media Festival Rockie award nomination for Best Limited Series, with the announcement of a nomination for the prestigious Prix Europa, the only scripted series from Norway nominated, and the first Sámi drama series ever given the honour.
Shut Up (Oro Jaska) takes place in a small town in the north of Norway and the heart of Sápmi, the community of the indigenous people of the north, the Sámi. Elli Anne gets her life turned upside down when she gets raped and has to find out who did it and how to get justice in a community bound together by traditions and strong family ties. When the local snow cross champion Issat is accused of the rape, it sets in motion a series of events to silence Elli Anne. And for Issat, the accusation threatens his own taboo, that he is queer.
Shut Up (Oro Jaska) is the first Sámi TV series addressing social issues from within and the first high-quality Sámi TV drama to date. The creators had one main principle for the creation process: “Nothing about us without us.” Narrative autonomy and authenticity are hard to achieve for Indigenous storytellers, so the team created a unique writers’ room of young, Sámi, queer voices, led by series creators Silje Bürgin-Borch and Vegard Bjørsmo (Sámi).
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