The independant Woodstock Film Festival has been gathering film and music lovers for 11 years already. The program includes a series of projections, concerts and workshops. Among previously awarded films are Les Invasions Barbares, Infamous, After the Wedding…

The schedule of this year’s edition screens a film in Kalaallisut, language of Greenland.

“Inuk” is the story of a 16-year-old boy who is taken from his broken family life in the capital city of Greenland and placed in a home for troubled youth in the remote north of the country. What follows is a dramatic, arctic journey as Inuk and the other teens at the center are led on a cross-ice voyage where they will be forced to grow into adulthood and face their troubled pasts. Opening his eyes on the richness of his own Inuit culture, Inuk will eventually find the way to progressively build an identity and come to peace with existence…

Documentary director Mike Magidson and ethnologist Jean-Michel Huctin sign their first collaboration on a feature-length narrative based on a true story. The setting takes place in an actual youth center in Uummannaq, where for over twenty years, Ann Andreasen and Ole Jørgen Hammeken have been welcoming youngsters from all over the country to help them get back on track. Inuk and his friends are played by actual residents of Uummannaq Children’s Home; roles that weren’t always easy to put up with given how close they were to reality…

Inuk is a Franco-Greenlandic production.

Film website

http://www.inuk-film.com/

Festival website

http://www.woodstockfilmfestival.com/festival2010/details.php?id=21576

Uummannaq Children’s Home website

www.bhjumq.com