Lo sciamano di ghiaccio

The Inuit, one of the oldest and most peaceful peoples on earth, stand today at a crucial crossroads. In Greenland, their population has not grown for thirty years and the number of native peoples is barely fifty thousand. Threatened by the relentless thawing of the ice, by the exploitative extraction policies of Canada and the United States, forced to curtail the traditional practice of hunting, with alcoholism rampant and an high rate of youth suicides, the Inuit people are traumatically experiencing the intrusion of modernity. This new project by Barbieri, Cherstich, Pizzo and Casotti narrates this difficult transition thorugh cinema and music: the images shot for the occasion in Greenland dialogue with the original music by Massimo Pupillo and the traditional songs of Karina Moeller, an Inuit singer living in Denmark. Lo sciamano di ghiaccio ('The Ice Shaman') takes the audience to the small village of Kulusuk, on the island's south-eastern coast, and to the small town of Tasillaq, where South Tyrolean Robert Peroni, who has been involved in the defence and protection of Inuit culture for forty years, lives.