More on « Inuk »! After leaving the Woostock Film Festival with the best cinematography award, this film entirely directed in Kalaallisut (a native language of Greenland) has just received the Jury Special Prize at the International Polar Film Festival, organized at the Oceanographic Institute in Paris, as well as a « coup de cœur » prize to Gaba Petersen for his interpretation of Inuk.

Sorosoro has already showed its interest towards this film following screening in Woodstock last October as well as in Paris in February. Inuk is Mike Magidson’s first feature-length film, inspired by a true story, that of a sixteen year old lost teenager who leaves the Greenland capital, in the South of the country, to be placed in a home in the remote and frozen North. We can only hope for this road-movie on sledge, interpreted by Inuit actors, to keep on its already long and successful journey.

To learn more:

Inuk’s Official website

An interview of Ole Jorgen Hammeken, one of the lead actors (in French)

An interview of director Mike Magidson (in French)

An interview of co-author Jean-Michel Huctin (in French)