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Inuk (2010)

Inuk poster
Directed by
Mike Magidson
Genre
drama film
Country
France, Denmark
Runtime
1h 30m
Rated
NR
Rating
6.2 of 10 from 9 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A Greenlandic boy struggles with life in a small Arctic village. An older man takes him on a hunting trip across the ice.

sombercoldquietcontemplativeslow-pacedaustereatmospheric

What happens

Inuk (previously titled Le Voyage d'Inuk) is a Greenlandic-language film directed by Mike Magidson and co-written by Magidson, Ole Jørgen Hammeken and anthropologist Jean-Michel Huctin It is Magidson's first feature film. It screened in Stockholm film Festival on 20 April 2010 in an unfinished version and made its official theatrical release in Greenland on 11 May 2012. The film was selected as the Greenlandic entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards, but it did not make the final shortlist. The film won the Award Best Film at the 2012 Byron Bay International Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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