Icebergs Find a Home

[A narrator-based ethnographic documentary film]

Logline:
This ethnographic film zooms in on a micro version of a cultural meeting between Denmark and Greenland. It portrays a Danish anthropologist’s process as she revisits her former home in a remote Greenlandic island after 17 years, and we follow her attempt to heal the past through engaging with local stories of belonging to the place.

Synopsis continued:
We follow a Danish woman as she returns to the place in Greenland where she lived the most challenging year of her life as a vulnerable 13-years-old teenager. 17 years later, she realizes that it is not too late to rewrite the present and the future, and she decides to go back to give the cultural meeting another try as an adult with more self-confidence.

Through interweaving the narrator’s personal story of detachment with local stories of belonging to their home, the film explores the power of storytelling to connect the past and the present towards a desirable future. It moreover offers a glimpse into a unique place on earth, where nature is an omnipresent and indispensable part of everyday life, but where depopulation and global warming threaten the future.