Private Project

ROAD TO NOWHERE

Somewhere in the Canadian Great North, away from the world, there is a growing city which has the particularity of welcoming people from everywhere. Strange cohabitation between an ancient people and a global population, ROAD TO NOWHERE takes the viewer to Inuit land and questions the existence of those who live there.

  • Caroline D'hondt
    Director
  • Caroline D'hondt
    Writer
  • Monique Marnette
    Producer
  • Project Type:
    Documentary
  • Runtime:
    1 hour 21 minutes 32 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    July 15, 2024
  • Country of Origin:
    Belgium
  • Country of Filming:
    Canada
  • Language:
    English, French, Inuktitut
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    2:39
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • MILLENIUM FESTIVAL
    BRUSSELS
    Belgium
    April 4, 2025
    WORLD
  • SEGNI DELLA NOTTE
    URBINO
    Italy
    April 4, 2025
    INTERNATIONALE
Director Biography - Caroline D'hondt

For many years, Caroline D'hondt has looked at regions far from her native Belgium: the Mexico of EX-VOTO, meeting one of the last ex-voto painters highlights different facets of the present-day Mexican society; the Arizona of INSIDE THE LABYRINTH, offers a dive into Tohono O'odham territory to meet people from this nation that interrogate the question of identity, indigenous sovereignty, immigration, the border and fear; today the Nunavut of “ROAD TO NOWHERE”, takes us into Inuit territory.

This impulse towards distant lands full of the ancestral history of the first peoples confronted with the ravages of colonialism is the privileged terrain of Caroline's cinema. And when she goes to Iqaluit for the film ROAD TO NOWHERE, we find a real connection with her previous films.

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Director Statement

My film is based on the choice of a unique setting in Inuit land, a city in an icy desert on the border of sky and earth. It is a still journey, a personal exploration of a place and the people who populate it, a questioning of our belonging to the world and our capacity to form “society”.

Flying over by crows, the mythical bird of the territory, ROAD TO NOWHERE takes us to the end of the white immensity. Just like the spectator, the crows observe the life unfolding before their eyes, they still faintly perceive the resonance of the ancestral drum in the distance, but the excavators work tirelessly to transform the city. Over the seasons, the duration of the shots, as well as their recurrence, allows spectators to understand the issues at stake.
A film where the people filmed are not there to defend the discourse of an institution or an organization; they tell pieces of their existence and in doing so question society, colonialism and its stigmata, the insatiability of the world, the place of each person.

ROAD TO NOWHERE, is a slow immersion, an exploration of human geography. The narrative approach is built on the basis of fragments of stories like that of a puzzle whose overall representation is only given once completed. The result is a film which proposes to follow in its own way the mutations of a society, to discover how the eddies of history pass through ordinary lives and form the foam of the days. A film that takes the time to open doors and let the viewer weave their own thoughts.