A cinematic portrait of despair and anxiety towards an unknown future for the Inuit of the world's largest island. The film questions the rationale behind past and future mining prospects in Greenland and how they are connected to a search for identity for the fledgling nation. This film, in many ways, laid the foundation for the events that eventually led to a call for an early election in Greenland during the spring of 2021.

7 minutes approx., 1.85:1 (1998x1080p), stereo/5.1 (DCP)

Official selections/screenings:

• Indianer Inuit: Das Nordamerika Film Festival - Stuttgart, Germany. February 2023
• Environmental Film Festival Australia - Melbourne, Australia. December 2022
• The Loft Cinema - Tucson (AZ), USA. November 2022
• 12th Antarctis Film Festival - Aboa, Queen Maud Land, Antarctica, Autumn 2022
• Flensburger Kurzfilmtage - Flensburg, Germany. November 2022
• Ortometraggi Film Festival - Torino, Italy. September 2022
• Nordic Arts Festival - Hamburg, Germany. August 2022
• Andromeda Film Festival - Istanbul, Turkey. July 2022
• Riddu Riđđu Festivála - Samuelsberg, Norway. July 2022
• International Uranium Film Festival - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. May 2022
• Ennesimo Film Festival (in Competition)  - Bologna, Italy. May 2022
• Museum of Modern Art - Aalborg, Denmark. April 2022
• Kort- & Dokumentärfilmsdagar - Gothenburg, Sweden. April 2022
• Int. Short and Independent Film Festival - Dhaka, Bangladesh. February 2022
• Wales One World Film Festival - Aberystwyth, UK. February 2022
• Nunavut International Film Festival - Iqaluit, Nunavut. February 2022
• Alpi Giulie Cinema/Monte Analogo - Trieste, Italy, February 2022
• Arctic Shorts Film Evening - Arctic Futures, Brussels, Belgium. January 2022
• Calcutta International Short Film Festival - Kolkata, India. December 2021
• Cortomontagna - Udine, Italy, December 2021
• Arctic Film Festival/Winterer's Gathering - Grand Marais, MN. USA. November 2021
• Flensburger Kurzfilmtage (in Competition) - Flensburg, Germany. November 2021
• Quetzalcoatl Indigenous International Film Festival - Oaxaca, Mexico. November 2021
• Native Spirit Film Festival - London University, London. U.K. November 2021
• Native Spirit Taiwan Festival - Tainan, Taiwan. October 2021
• Arica Nativa - Festival De Películas Nativas (in Competition) - Arica, Chile. October 2021
• Int. Human-Environment Care Film Festival - Pickering, Canada. October 2021
• imagineNATIVE Film & Media Arts Festival - Toronto, ON. Canada. October 2021
• Explorers Club Polar Film Festival - Christchurch, New Zealand. October 2021
• Int. Short Film Festival of Cyprus  (in Competition) - Limassol, Cyprus. October 2021
• Arctic International Film Festival (in Competition) - Moscow, Russia October 2021
• Nordatlantiske Filmdage - Copenhagen, Denmark. September 2021
• Lunenburg Doc Fest  (in Competition) - Lunenberg, Canada. September 2021
• Asinabka Film & Media Arts Festival - Ottawa, Canada. September 2021
• Nordic International Film Festival (in Competition) - New York, USA. August 2021
• CineGlobe Film Festival (in Competition) - Cern, Switzerland. August 2021
• GECO Film Festival (in Competition) - Melbourne, Australia. July 2021
• Nickel Independent Film Festival - St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. July 2021
• Liberation Docfest - Dhaka, Bangladesh. June 2021
• Wairoa Maori Film Festival - Wairoa, New Zealand. June 2021
• Trento Film Festival - Trento, Italy. May 2021
• Ecocine Human Rights Festival - Sao Paolo, Brazil. April 2021
• Canberra Short Film Festival (in Competition) - Canberra, Australia. March 2021
• Maoriland Film Festival - Ōtaki, New Zealand. March 2021
• Demetera International Short Film Festival - Paris, France. March 2021
• Tampere Film Festival (in Competition) - Tampere, Finland. March 2021
• Skábmagovat Film Festival - Inari, Finland. January 2021
• Tromsø International Film Festival (in Competition) - Tromsø, Norway. January 2021
• Dunedin International Film Festival - Florida, USA. January 2021
• Independent Shorts Awards - Burbank, LA. USA, December 2020
• Red Nation International Film Festival (in Competition) - LA, United States. November 2020
• Nuuk International Film Festival (in Competition) - Nuuk, Greenland. September 2020

Background:

During a thirty year period from the 1950s onwards Greenland saw major societal change as the country went from being a colony of Denmark to a fledgling nation with aspirations of becoming independent one day. What had taken Europe 300 years to accomplish during the industrialisation was more or less forced upon the indigenous population of Greenland in 30. This had great consequences on every aspect of the Inuit way of living and was for many a devastating blow. Now, 70 years later new changes are on the horizon. Changes that are not necessarily for the good.

Awards:

• BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY - Nunavut International Film Festival 2022

  BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY - Calcutta International Short Film Festival 2021

  SPECIAL MENTION - Vesuvius Film Festival 2021

  BEST SHORT FILM - Nuuk International Film Festival 2020

  GOLD AWARD, Best Documentary Short - Independent Shorts Awards 2020

  BRONZE AWARD, Best Editing - Independent Shorts Awards 2020

  HONORABLE MENTIONS, Best Director - Independent Shorts Awards 2020

  HONORABLE MENTIONS, Best Cinematography - Independent Shorts Awards 2020

  
  

  ANNUAL AWARD, Best Documentary Short (nominee) - Independent Shorts Awards 2021

  BEST MOUNTAIN SHORT FILM (finalist) - Cortomontagna - 2021

  BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT (nominee) - Int. Human-Environment Care Film Festival 2021

  BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT (nominee) - Red Nation International Film Festival 2020

  BEST FIRST NATIONS STORY (finalist) - Canberra Short Film Festival - 2020

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