Film-maker Egil Pedersen says he hopes comedy in My Fathers’ Daughter will spark discussions about identity

As a child in northern Norway in the 1980s and 90s, Egil Pedersen struggled to feel a sense of belonging. Growing up in a Sámi village, he sometimes felt rejected because of his lack of fluency in the Sámi language, and outside the community he was subjected to racist violence.

So when Pedersen, now 47, had the opportunity to make his own feature film, he decided to make the kind of movie that would have made him feel less alone as a child.