Edition: 2010

Selected by the Festival: RAI INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM 2009, Manchester, Great Britain

Award winner: WILEY-BLACKWELL STUDENT FILM PRIZE

Year of production: 2008

Country of production: Germany

Set in: Kingdom of Denmark (Greenland)

Duration: 64'

Film: Color

Directed by: Anni Seitz, Sophie Elixhauser

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 tradition 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 poetical scenes ordinary life in an extraordinary world, quietly observing events, faces, gestures that form a portrait that is at the same time strange and familiar.