ABOUT THE FILM

A new film by multiple award-winning film maker Inuk Jørgensen in collaboration with Koda Award-winning Frederik K. Elsner. A short film project highlighting the connection between the Inuit of Greenland and the ice cap, intertwined with Greenlandic folklore and set against the backdrop of the current climate crisis.

Told from an Indigenous perspective the film explores the decades old relationship between Inuit of Greenland and the ice cap, intertwined with Greenlandic folklore and set against the backdrop of the current climate crisis. The Inuit have always thrived in proximity to the Arctic ice - what will happen now as the ice is disappearing will affect not just the Inuit communities in the far north but everyone.

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

Timeline:

• Early 2024 - premiere TBA
• Sneak premiew on Arctic Peoples' Day at COP28
• Work-in-progress screening at FUTURE NORTH, Nordic Film Days Lübeck, Nov 2024
• August -December 2023 - postproduction, voiceover recording, sound mix, scoring.
• July 2023 - production on location in southern Greenland.
• February 2023 - concept video premiered at the Native Indigenous Cinema Screening during the Berlinale.
• November 2022 - idea presented during Arktisk Festival, Copenhagen.

Featuring:

A modern and atmospheric original score by renowned Greenlandic artist Frederik Elsner of Nanook.

Log lines:

"Ice like you've never seen it."

"Imagine you had to go on a journey."

"A marriage of modern cinema and traditional Inuit storytelling."