Off to the North! Pegasus Library Film Festival: Máhccan – Homecoming (2023)
Event information
Time
Tue 03.02.2026 17:00 - 19:30
Venue location
Pegasus Library: Maisemasali (3rd floor), Linnanmaa campus
Location
After work film screening: Máhccan – Homecoming
Tuesday 3.2.2026 at 17:00 in Pegasus Library's Maisemasali (3rd floor)
Máhccan - Homecoming (Sápmi/Finland, 2023) is a documentary film directed by Suvi West and Anssi Kömi, focusing on repatriation, i.e. the returning of the cultural heritage collected by museums or other institutions to the source communities. The film follows director Suvi West's emotional journey to trace Sámi museum artifacts across Europe and examines the importance of repatriation to the indigenous identity and community.
Language of the film: North Sámi, Finnish, English (subtitles: Finnish)
Duration of the film: 76 min + introduction about 20 min
Age limit: Allowed for all ages
The event will feature expert guest Eeva-Kristiina Nylander, who will give us a short introduction to the subject of the film in Finnish. Eeva-Kristiina Nylander is an archaeologist and researcher of Sámi cultural heritage who has studied Sámi collections, their location and extent in Nordic and European museums. Nylander specialises in ethical issues, provenance research, repatriation and rematriation. In 2023, she defended her doctoral thesis From repatriation to rematriation. Dismantling the attitudes and potentials behind the repatriation of Sámi heritage at the Giellagas Institute of the University of Oulu. Dismantling the attitudes and potentials behind the repatriation of Sámi heritage. Nylander has recently started working as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Giellagas Institute in the subject of Sámi culture.
Free entrance. Seats cannot be reserved, the first 60 people will be admitted.
Welcome!
In 2026, the University of Oulu will organize a year-long Campus as a Stage event series, the purpose of which is to showcase the broad cultural expertise of our university community and bring culture to the everyday life of our campuses and to the wider public. The series includes culture lunches, culture lectures, After Work events, various exhibitions and community art works, and art tours of the university's art collections.
Campus as a Stage After Work: Off to the North! Pegasus Library film festival 3.–5.2.2026