Sirius documentary moves abroad

Lasse Rahbek, film director, is now trying to get his documentary series 'Sirius' out into the world and onto the stage of some of the international streaming services and TV stations.

Something he has had a dream about for some time, but which has now come a little closer to becoming a reality.

Because after Donald Trump shifted the world's attention to Greenland, DR and the production company Monday Media have agreed to try to sell the documentary series abroad.

- In this discussion about Greenland, natural resources and security policy, what is truly valuable has been completely overlooked; this close relationship between the people up here and the understanding that we are subject to nature, says Lasse Rahbek.

He especially hopes that the documentary can reach the USA, where the country's president has repeatedly made fun of the Danish Defense, including the Sirius Patrol.

- It's easy enough to make fun of things you don't understand, and Trump is a world champion at that. But they (the Sirius Patrol, ed.) actually fill an important role as supervisors, says Lasse Rahbek.

- If it could come to the USA, and people there could see how cool the people who do this job really are, and just get to feel some of the good vibrations that are in the series for themselves, then I would be happy.

The documentary premiered for the first time on DR in 2023. Subsequently, Lasse Rahbek has toured with lectures about what it was like to film the documentary under the harsh conditions.

Recently, he was in Nuuk and Sisimiut to give a lecture together with Alfred Olsen, the first Greenlandic Sirius man to appear in the documentary.