BEST ENVIRONMENTAL FILM - Montreal Independent Film Festival | BEST STORY - NaturVision Filmfestival | HONORABLE MENTION - Better World Film Festival | BEST WOMAN DIRECTOR - My Name Is Climate Film Festival | OFFICIAL SELECTION - Belgrade International Film Festival
Climate Change • Green Transition • Green Colonialism • Plastic Pollution • Human Rights • Just Transition • Environmental Justice • Indigenous rights • Environmental Destruction
Date of Completion: 2026 | Run Time: 114 minutes | Languages: German, English, Norwegian & Northern Sami with English subtitles | Captions: Yes | Includes: Transcript | Director, Producer & Editor: Wera Uschakowa | Director of Photography: Gunnar Rossow | Sound Design & Mixing: Volker Armbruster & Timo Letzgus | Color Grading: Morris Kappes | Music: Snow Forest, Dag Broch & Inkeri Laitinen | Creative Producer: Nico Gerspacher
OFF THE MARK is a documentary about climate change, the “Green Colonialism,” and plastic pollution in the Norwegian Finnmark.
Temperatures in Northern Norway are rising steadily and the destruction of the environment is increasing. A first starting point is microplastic, because this clearly shows the influence of humans on the environment. Knowing how much pollution there is and where it comes from is the cornerstone of a nature conservation approach. The people most affected by microplastics and climate change in the North are the Sámi, one of the last indigenous peoples in Europe.
The Norwegian government believes that with the so called “Green Shift,” the country will challenge energy security and climate change. The quest towards a low-carbon society requires the development of more renewable energy and the mining of more minerals. But when the “Green Shift” becomes only an extraction of resources, destruction of nature, and loss of land in Sámi areas, it creates an existential threat situation that pushes the Indigenous people to their physical and mental limits.
AWARDS
Honorable Mention | Better World Film Festival
Best Women Filmmaker | Luleå International Film Festival
Best Environmental Film | Montreal Independent Film Festival
Best International Women Director | My Name is Climate Film Festival
Best Story | NaturVision FilmFestival
Best Woman Filmmaker | Stockholm City Film Festival
FESTIVALS
Art Giraffe International Film Festival
Belgrade International Film Festival
CROSSINGS
Green Screen International Wildlife Film Festival
HECare Film Festival (Human-Environment Care Film Festival)
International Film Festival The Hague
Matsalu Nature Film Festival (MAFF)
Nordic/Docs Documentary Film Festival
Peloponnisos International Documentary Film Festival
Red National International Film Festival