A death in the Arctic

Synopsis
At the peak of the cold war, Northern Norway was a hornet ́s nest. A NATO-country bordering on the Soviet Union, the area was teeming with soldiers as well as spies from both CIA and KGB.
In addition, a radical political movement was on the rise, their goal was to establish an independent Sami state. Police and intelligence services feared an armed Sami guerilla uprising. At the same time, the construction of a huge dam and power plant on indigenous Sami territory made headlines both nationally and internationally and drew protesters from all over Europe.
A well known Sami activists, John-Reier Martinsen, was arrested for blowing up a brigde and suspected of being a key member of the radical Sami movement.
On a cold winter night in Februrary 1986, Martinsen was killed in the middle of a big, frozen lake on the high Arctic plains along with four of his sled dogs.
Forty years later, his younger brother is finally ready to take the same journey across the frozen Arctic plains, to find answers to what really happened and try to put forty years of grief to rest.
Best Feature Documentary
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