Silent Snow

Uummannaq is the most beautiful place on earth, Pipaluk Hammeken thinks. She should know, because she lives in the capital, littered with colourful houses, of Northwest Greenland, where the first sun can be seen earlier every year, because the icebergs shielding it shrink year by year. Pipaluk explains how the life of the one thousand inhabitants, who depend on seal hunting and fishing, is threatened by pollution by the industrialised world. `The most poisonous waste is dumped at the cleanest place on earth.' The poison accumulates in the fish and the seals - the people's staple diet. The camera follows Pipaluk and her family on a trip that becomes ever harder due to the thinning ice: with huskies across endless white plains to the village where her friend Sarah lives.