Being fourteen or fifteen years old is never easy, and feisty indigenous Norwegian Sami teen Elvira (Sarah Olaussen Eira) is no exception. Bored in her small village, Unjarga in the far north of Norway, she fantasises that the father she has never known is Game of Thrones film star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau. The Danish heartthrob (he actually makes a few cameo appearances) is her route out of what she considers a life of limited opportunity. Her mother Beate (Inge Elise Pave Idivuoma), constantly winds her up (as all parents of teenagers do), particularly when her mother’s new girlfriend – her first girlfriend – Rita (Anne Magga Wigelius) moves into the family house. Her troubles continue with her on-off friendship with golden girl online influencer school classmate Margarethe (Sara Sofia Mienna) . Then to cap it all, her real father, Terje (Aslat Mahtte Gaup) turns up out of the blue, and rather than a handsome film-star, he is an unemployed, homeless, alcoholic ex-con, newly released from a long stretch in prison. Terje is a maverick character and upends Elvira’s life, for good and for bad. How are things going to pan out?

My Father’s Daughter is the directorial debut by Egil Pedersen. Atmospherically shot on the far north coast of Norway, this is a teenage coming-of-age tale mainly for a younger audience. Themes of family and identity run deep and don’t get fully resolved, and a couple of the sub-plots are weakly executed. Nevertheless, it’s entertaining viewing and a glimpse into rural Scandi life. Eira gives an impressive performance as the headstrong, frustrated, self-pitying youth, as do the rest of the cast, particularly Idivuoma and Gaup who both bumble through teenage parenthood in their own incompetent ways. It’s a healthy reminder about accepting your own identity, and that family life during teenage years is tricky, wherever you are in the world