
Where Roads End and Ice Begins: Greenland, Life Beyond the Arctic Circle
Ice covers eighty percent of Greenland, some of it up to 3000 meters thick, pushing nearly the entire population onto the ice-free strip of the west coast. This film follows Inuit families there whose lives still run on hunting, fishing, and dog sledding, practices carried over thousands of years, while showing how satellite television, imported food, and wage jobs are reshaping daily routines in the same villages. Locals speak directly to camera about what it means to hunt seal or catch fish under skies that used to freeze solid months earlier than they do now, and the footage moves between fjords, ice sheets, and small coastal settlements where boats now sit in open water later into the year than elders remember. Melting permafrost and shifting sea ice are treated not as abstract climate statistics but as changes the hunters describe noticing in their own gear and timing. The film stays close to individual voices rather than experts, letting Greenlanders describe a culture adjusting in real time to a landscape that is no longer behaving the way it always has.