WINTER’S YEARNING / HÅBETS Ø
One-off, Creative Documentary, 77 & 52 min., 2019
When the American aluminium giant ALCOA decides to build their next aluminium plant in Maniitsoq, Greenland, the citizens of the small finishing town have high hopes. Could this be the first major step towards Greenlandic independence? But as years go by and ALCOA is nowhere to be seen, the people of Maniitsoq fall into a state of waiting. The future has been postponed, but for how long?
A social worker, a young woman, and the town’s aluminium coordinator are the main protagonists in this portray of a small society that yearns for change and progress. A progress that in the end comes from an unexpected place.
Directors Sidse Torstholm Larsen & Sturla Pilskog
Cinematograher Henrik Bohn Ipsen
Editor Åsa Mossberg
Sound designer & Mixer Niels Arild
Music by Sebastian Öberg
Producers Sturla Pilskog & Are Kvalnes Pilskog
Co-producers Vibeke Vogel, Emile Hertling Péronard & Inuk Silis Høegh
Produced by Blåst Film (Norway)
Co-producer Bullitt Film (Denmark) & Ánorâk Film (Greenland)
Supported by Norwegian Film Institute, Western Norway Film Centre, Danish Film Institute, Fond for lyd og bilde, EU MEDIA, The Greenlandic Self Rule Government, Zefyr Media Fund, Freedom of Speech Foundation, KNR (Greenlandic Broadcaster) & DR.
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TRAILER
Sidse Torstholm Larsen
Sidse is a Danish filmmaker from Copenhagen. She holds a master in Visual Anthropology from the University of Tromsø. She graduated with a thesis and a film, Living on the Ice, on a halibut fishing community in Ilulissat, Greenland. Sidse has studied Inuit Culture in Greenland and has since directed the short film Alianaak about a Greenlandic football team in Copenhagen. Together with Sturla Pilskog she directed the award winning documentary Winter's Yearning, which was premiered on CPH:DOX Nordic Award and has been nominated for a Bodil award in 2020. Besides directing, Sidse works as an editor for Danish public broadcaster DR.
Sturla Pilskog
Sturla holds a master in visual anthropology from the University of Tromsø. He has been working as both a producer and director for the Norwegian production company Blåst Film. He co-directed the documentary short Ice Handscape with Are Pilskog. Together with Sidse Torstholm Larsen he co-directed Jakten på det nye Norge. Continuing their collaboration they made the documentary Winter's Yearning, which was premiered on CPH:DOX Nordic Award and has been nominated for a Bodil award in 2020. He is now living in Copenhagen and focusing on directing creative documentaries.