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Greenland: Between Denmark and Trump
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Greenland: Between Denmark and Trump

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Donald Trump's talk of acquiring Greenland has jolted a territory already debating its future with Denmark. DW's cameras follow Nukannguaq Zeeb, who coaches Greenland's national soccer team and hunts and fishes by tradition, as he argues that his homeland remains under Danish rule in all but name despite the autonomy granted since 1953. At the White Mountain mine north of Nuuk, reachable only by boat or helicopter, foreman Niels Ole is one of the few Greenlandic supervisors among a largely foreign workforce extracting anorthosite for glass fiber and insulation. Social worker Ane Pipaluk cares for teenagers from families hit by unemployment and alcoholism, many of whom drop out of a school system she describes as failing them. The film moves between mine sites, shared housing for at-risk youth, and conversations about melting ice exposing new mineral wealth, laying out the pressures pulling Greenland between old colonial ties, new foreign interest, and a population still weighing what independence would actually cost.