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Minik and Hans are best friends in their early twenties in Greenland. Minik being down and Hans trying to cheer him up they look for an some excitement and a break from the mundane boredom. They learn about a claimed local haunted house and decide to have a sleep over to see what is real and what is not.
An award-winning short film tells a poetic story about sisterhood, loss and grief that parallels with the faith of a humpback whale.
Miki is of Greenlandic descent, but grew up in Sweden. He travels to Nuuk for the first time to relax and meet his distant relatives. But suddenly he is whirled into the petty crime of cousin Kunuk and his gang. Within an instant, Miki is in charge of two tons of stolen fireworks, some buddies who do not quite understand him, a sweet girl, and the city's mafia boss are hot on his heels.
Shovelling snow in Greenland’s capital is a big of everyday winter life. For some of Nuuk’s residents it’s a frustrating, endless task, but for others it’s an artform.
With his wedding day approaching, a man (Ujarneq Fleischer) and his fiancée (Connie Arenas) grow increasingly concerned about whether it would be wise to invite his dementia-stricken mother (Vivi Nielsen). As she’s using implanted assistance equipment, they ponder whether updating its software could help her function through increasingly frightening hallucinations. A tragic work of humanist science-fiction from award-winning Greenland filmmaker Nivi Pedersen, UPDATED asks uneasy questions about technology’s place in caregiving, and the privacy trade-offs that come with the barter.