5 Best Movies Set in or About Greenland

5 Movies Set in or About Greenland

Foreign-led films whose sustained setting or subject remains centered on Greenland.

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   1. Zero Kelvin

   Kjærlighetens kjøtere · 1995

   In the 1920s, an aspiring Oslo poet signs on for a year as a fur trapper in the frozen wilds of East Greenland, cooped up in a tiny hut with a brutish old hunter, and the two men's clashing wills build toward violence. A tense Norwegian drama.

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   2. Inughuit - folket vid jordens navel

   1985

   This documentary visits the Inughuit people of Qaanaaq in far northern Greenland, the northernmost community on earth, observing their traditional hunting life at the top of the world.

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   3. Qivitoq

   Qivitoq - fjeldgængeren · 1956

   A young Danish woman travels to Greenland to surprise her fiancé, only to find he has moved on, and in her heartbreak she ventures deeper into the vast, unfamiliar land and toward a new life. A romantic Danish drama, once an Oscar nominee.

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   4. Milak, the Greenland Hunter

   Milak, der Grönlandjäger · 1928

   Shot on location in the Arctic, this silent film follows a Greenlandic hunter through the perils and rhythms of life on the ice. Praised in its day as a German answer to Nanook of the North.

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   5. Eksperimentet

   2010

   Based on a true 1951 program, this drama follows a Danish nurse assigned to run a home for Greenlandic children taken from their families in a misguided experiment to remake them as model Danes. A quietly damning historical drama.