Inuk

In the beautiful, treacherous wilderness of Greenland, a young Inuit is torn between the lures of modernity and the binding ties of tradition. Sent away from his alcoholic mother and violent stepfather by social services, 16 year-old Inuk is dispatched to a foster home in the far north of Greenland, 800 kilometres above the Arctic Circle. Taken on as a protégé by Ikuma, a grizzled polar bear hunter, Inuk embarks upon the annual seal hunt, and with it a unique, bitterly dangerous journey towards manhood. A road movie on ice that takes us across the unforgiving, majestic landscapes of Greenland’s polar limits, Inuk is the ambitious first narrative feature from writer-director Mike Magidson. With a cast of non-actors drawn from a home for troubled Inuit children, Inuk is a defiantly warm, utterly authentic glimpse of one of the world’s most remarkable and endangered cultures.