Showing at Sundance Film Festival as we speak, I’m pulling hard for this film, Nuummioq. First of all it’s fun to say. More importantly this is the first feature film to come out of Greenland. These guys have been working so hard to find funding since 2008, literally hitting the streets at Cannes asking for sponsorship. Additionally the filmmakers have released large amounts of behind-the-scenes peeks at the human costs of making a feature film in a country as remote as Greenland.

I really appreciate their honesty in approaching this work. I wish I could be at Sundance through Tuesday to show my support as the film makes its rounds.

As it turns out, friends of the Fort, The Woodlands, have two songs in the film, which couldn’t be more perfect. The Woodlands are just as dreamy as the berg-bearing fjords and cold sensibility of the film.

From Producer M. H. Lynge:

What begins as an unremarkable outing becomes a transcendent journey at the edge of the world as he grapples with his elusive past and tunes into the present. So breathtaking and luminous is Nuummioq’s landscape that you can almost feel the brisk air oxygenating your lungs.

Nuummioq Sundace page & screening schedule.