Film screening

Sunday, April 7 at 6pmExperiment, 2010directed by Louise N. D. Friedberg

90 min,VO English subtitlesTHE EXPERIMENT is the story of the nurse Gert, who is appointed as headmistress of a special children’s home owned by the Danish state in Greenland, 1951. The children’s home is intended to accommodate 16 carefully selected Greenlandic children, who have just come home after a year of civilization in Denmark. Now they are to be introduced to the Greenlandic community as role models. Gert, who lives alone and has no family, accepts the assignment with pride. She is idealistic and ambitious and feels passionate about saving Greenland from destitution. The means to this end is to educate and civilize the 16 children in the Danish language and culture, so they can spearhead Greenland’s transformation from being a poor hunter society to being an equal part of Denmark. Due to her blind faith in the experiment, Gert underestimates the obvious personal costs to the children. And when the children as well as the Danish state fail her, she finds it harder and harder to maintain her idealism.

Friday, March 15 at 7pmNuummioq, 2009directed by Otto Rosing and Torben Bech, produced by H. Mikisoq Lynge

95 min,VO English subtitlesNuummioq tells the story of a young man’s odyssey from mundane existence to an acute sense of the sacred. Like most regular guys in the tiny capital city, Malik works, cavorts with buddies, and fools around toggling between Danish and Greenlandic languages. All of a sudden, when he discovers he is very ill, mortality intrudes. Keeping the news to himself, Malik joins his cousin on a boat trip. 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.Free admissionEvent organised by the Cultural Department of the Embassy of Denmark