Folktales

This uplifting documentary is in English and Norwegian with English subtitles, recommended for age 12+.

Discovery Young Programmers present Folktales, a heartwarming documentary about our need for connection and meaning in the modern world. Through intimate storytelling and exhilarating cinematography, Oscar-nominated filmmakers Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady examine humans on the cusp of adulthood, finding themselves at the edge of the world.

Exhausted by loneliness, social anxiety, and all the crushing barrage of pressures felt by their generation, three teenagers leave the comforts of home to enrol in a traditional 'folk high school' in the wilds of northernmost Norway. Dropped in the arctic wilderness for one year, Hege, Romain, and Bjørn Tore must rely only on themselves and a pack of loyal sled dogs as they take the daunting step from childhood to adulthood. Freed from technology, social media, and the noise of modern life, this brave trio learns to face themselves for the first time and experience an unexpected transformation.