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Greenlandic Doc ‘Walls-Akinni Inuk’ Filmmakers on a Story About ‘How Human Connection Can Wash Away Prejudice’ (EXCLUSIVE)
The only Greenlandic documentary in competition at CPH:DOX is world premiering March 21 in Copenhagen.
Produced by high-profile Greenlandic/Danish Emile Hertling Péronard, credited for the 2023 Oscar-nominated short film “Ivalu” and CPH:DOX opener “ Twice Colonized,” “Walls-akinni inuk” kickstarts as a documentary about Greenland’s prison system, but gradually evolves into a gripping tale of unlikely friendship between Paninnguaq Skydsbjerg and detainee Ruth Mikaelsen Jerimiassen. Although everything seemingly differentiates the two women – one is a successful career-driven film producer/filmmaker, and the other a broken woman serving an indefinite detention sentence for attempted murder – both discover through numerous and lengthy conversations behind prison walls, that they share a history of trauma and sexual abuse. Beautifully shot by the filmmakers with cinematographers Anders Berthelsen and Inuk Silis Høegh, the intimate prison scenes alternate with poetic views of Greenland’s breath-taking landscape, through the wise editing of Bille August regular collaborator Biel Andrés (“The Kiss,” “The Count of Monte Cristo”) and Nanna Frank Møller(“The Sky Above Zenica,” “Ambulance”).
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