Director Anni Seitz
Anthropologist Sophie Elixhauser
Country/Production Germany
Release 2008
Length 64 mins
Format Colour / DVD PAL / All region
Location Greenland, Arctic, Inuit
Order No RAI-200.260
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The people of East Greenland inhabit a small string of coastal land at the edge of the biggest island of the world. Long winters have always shaped daily life here, a life that has gone within a few generations from earth house to modernity, complete with helicopters, satellite TV and alcohol. This documentary shows us East Greenland today, the village in summer and winter, the family between seal hunting and computer games. It lets us experience in clear and poetical scenes normality in an extraordinary world, quietly observing events, faces, gestures that combine to form a portrait that is at the same time strange and strangely familiar. (Winner of the Wiley-Blackwell Student Film Prize, RAI Film Festival 2009)
