Kiruna Underground is a documentary about a skatepark in Kiruna that has become a lifeline for young people in a city that is literally being moved.
While the mine expands and the ground beneath the old city center cracks, homes, schools and childhood memories are being dismantled and rebuilt a few kilometers away. The Rullhuset is also to be demolished, and in the middle of this unique social transformation stands a group of young skaters, community members and enthusiasts who refuse to give up the fight to be included in the new one.
Without a skate hall, skate culture has a hard time surviving in a winter town like Kiruna. The skate hall is worn, cracked and leaking from the roof – but for those who move there, it means everything. It is a breathing hole, a refuge, a place where you can be yourself. In the film, the roller house becomes more than a building; it becomes its own character, a heart that pulsates in the middle of the center of change. Through Milton, Hannes, Eli, Malin and Marcus, the film depicts youth, friendship and resistance in a time of change.
