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The Quiet Invasion

Against the backdrop of rising geopolitical tension and renewed American interest in Greenland, the short film explores what an invasion feels like in the 21st century - not always through armies, but through influence, exploitation, dependency, and the slow erosion of sovereignty.

  • Inuk Jørgensen
    Writer/producer/director
    Entropy (2024), Where Dreams Are Forgotten (2023), In the Shadow of the Tugtupite (2021), Hedtoft (2019), Home (2018)
  • Joshua Oppenheimer
    Executive Producer
    The End (2024), The Look of Silence (2014), The Act of Killing (2012)
  • Jukka Wagnholt
    Composer
    Entropy (2024), Where Dreams Are Forgotten (2023)
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Experimental
  • Runtime:
    3 minutes 15 seconds
  • Completion Date:
    May 31, 2026
  • Production Budget:
    3,500 USD
  • Country of Origin:
    Greenland
  • Country of Filming:
    Denmark, Greenland, Sweden
  • Language:
    English
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital
  • Aspect Ratio:
    2.35:1
  • Film Color:
    Black & White and Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
  • Digital Cinema Package:
    Unavailable
  • Nuuk International Film Festival
    Nuuk
    Greenland
    September 17, 2026
    World Premiere
    Official Selection
Distribution Information
  • Inuks.dk
    Distributor
    Country: Worldwide
    Rights: All Rights
Director Biography

Known for his award-winning and often provocative short films on hot topic issues from Greenland, Inuk has a long background in the filmmaking scene of the world’s largest island. Educated from the university of Aarhus, Denmark, he has been making home movies and short animations since childhood and even today has a focus on aesthetic images and personal stories that touch upon the identity, history, and culture of the Greenlandic Inuit people.

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Director Statement

The idea for ‘the Quiet Invasion’ was born out of a conversation between myself and Joshua Oppenheimer and in working with the story I kept coming back to the gravity of the situation for my people and the essence of the situation; A feeling of despair. As things unfold on an almost daily basis in these uncertain times the tangible fear of the people of Greenland is very pronounced. What started as a an idea of making a longer project ended up being my shortest short film about Greenland. Yet this is not a simplified story. This is an ongoing story. The end has not happened yet. History is being written at this very moment and as Greenlanders - home and abroad - we all feel the urgency of the times. In ‘the Quiet Invasion’ everything from the voiceover, the images, and the unsettling score - based around the rhythm of the Inuit drum dancing - pushes forward but with no clear end in sight.