As mentioned last week, the movie Inuk was part of the official selection of the Woodstock Film Festival, held on October 2 and 3.

The film tells the story of young Inuk, a sixteen year old lost teenager who leaves the Greenland capital, in the South of the country, to be placed in a home located in the remote and frozen North. The film, incidentally, was directed… in Kalaallisut, native language of Greenland.

Inuk drew unanimous attention in Woodstock, winning the festival’s Best Cinematography Award as well as the second Audience Award for fiction. The movie was also highly acclaimed in a number of articles raising the quality of its direction: never simply complacent with the amazing landscapes of the Far North, it also gives a tangible sense of the harshness and austerity of such an environment. The acclaim also goes to the characters who have inspired the film, Ann Andreasen and Ole Jørgen, who have spent over 20 years opening their doors to troubled youngsters at the Uummannaq Children’s Home. Another quality of Inuk is that it openly shows the lasting consequences of modernization on the lifestyle and environment of these traditional societies of the Arctic regions.

Now for this beautiful film to hit our theaters!

To read more about it:

– The critic by Stewart Nusbaumer, journalist for the Huffington Post

– The website of the Woodstock Film Festival

– The blog of the movie Inuk

– The blog “Woodstock Film Festival”, with a critic by Thimothy Malcolm, journalist for the Times Herald-Record