Untold Odyssey: Reindeer Wrangling (2011)

• 55%
• 2011
• Adventure
• Documentary
• Eva Weber

A poetic study in movement and sound, this film takes you on a journey into the twilight expanses of the Lappish wilderness to experience the ancient practice of reindeer herding or 'husbandry'. Each autumn as the daylight retreats, the Artic's indigenous Sami people bring down thousands of reindeer from their summer grazing pastures in the surrounding mountainsides. Once gathered, the animals are identified by various markers and distributed to their owners, who depend on them for food and to help with their work. The film explores the eerie isolation of the Artic landscape and captures the sheer adrenaline rush of the herding.