Ciril Jazbec and Lucía Flores, directors from Slovenia and Peru respectively, have been working on a short film for the last few years that portrays two young people from Uummannaq.
The name of the film is ‘SILA’, and now the film is among the finalists to receive an award for best short film at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival.
The film festival, which takes place this month in Montana, USA, is the largest of its kind in the western United States. It is also here that ‘SILA’ will have its world premiere when it is shown on 17 February.
The film starrs Marius Schuu Chuu Olsen and Jane Sanimuinaq, and it is their path towards adulthood that is portrayed.
- Created in close collaboration with a local orphanage and shot in Greenlandic, the story depicts identity, tradition, loss and resilience, reads the description of the film itself.
- By living side by side with its main characters, the film observes a vulnerable transition between deep cultural roots and an uncertain, rapidly changing world, it says.
