FOLKTALES

[BIRDS SINGING]  

Wide shot of green covered mountains stretched into the distance and a lake beneath them.  

A teenage girl, Hege, lies in bed in pajamas, looking at her iPhone.  

HEGE’S MOTHER (voiceover in subtitled Norwegian): It’s gonna be strange to not have you home for so long.  

Hege makes a “hm” noise in response.  

Hege's mother is seen in profile from outside a glass window with the reflection of the neighboring house visible.  

HEGE’S MOTHER: What are you looking forward to the most?  

Hege is still in bed. Her phone is face down beside her and she has her hands over her eyes.  

HEGE’S MOTHER: The dogs?  

HEGE: Getting some space.  

[FAINT SOUND OF DOGS BARKING AND HOWLING]  

Close-up on Hege’s face from an angle so we see the left side of her face as she continues to lie down.  

Hege, still in bed with her head propped up on a pillow, holds her iPhone up. The phone case is covered in stickers.   

Close-up on Hege’s horizontal iPhone screen which is playing a POV video of a person on a sled in the snow being led by a pack of four dogs and two other people.  

[SOUND OF ANIMALS RUNNING]  

Cut to a close-up on dog’s feet as they run in the snow carrying a sled.  

[FLUTE MUSIC BEGINS]  

Close-up on a white dog’s mouth as it runs.  

Wide view of eight dogs harnessed in two neat rows to carry a sled. They run down a slim, snowy path through snow-covered woods.  

A series of rapid cuts between close-ups of the dogs, wider shots of the dogs leading a sled through snowy terrain, and shots of nature including a river, trees, snowy woods, and an overhead image of melting ice in water.  

The last shot is a close-up on the icy blue eyes of one of the sled dogs before the screen cuts to a black screen with the text “Folktales” at the center, embers from a fire rising toward the text.  

[MUSIC FADES INTO A SERIES OF CLAPS, INTERWOVEN WITH BIRD SOUNDS]  

Black screen with text “A Film by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady” at the center.  

[MUSIC ENDS]