This paper gives an overview and analysis of the representation of the Sami people in Scandinavian film in the context of difficult heritage. At the beginning of the paper, basic definitions of terms “cultural” and “difficult heritage” are given, together with a brief overview of the difficult history of the Sami people and their relationship with the dominant ethnic groups. The paper also contains a short analysis of representation in three films and one TV series. One of the films is the Swedish Sami Blood by the Sami director Amanda Kernell from 2016. Two examples are Norwegian – the movie Pathfinder by director Nils Gaup from 1987 and a TV series Welcome to Utmark by an Icelandic director Dagur Kári from 2021. In the end, the animated movie Klaus from 2019 is mentioned because, despite it not being a work of Scandinavian filmmakers, it seemed important to list it because of its representation of the Sami language, which remains unchanged even in synchronizations to other languages.