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"Heart of Light"
1997
Directed by Jacob Gronlykke

In this riveting drama of tragedy and the struggle for redemption, an Inuit father tries to keep his family together after his son commits a horrific act - opening fire on innocent people at a dance center before taking his own life. In the aftermath of the crime, the family is shunned by their housing project neighbors and the father tries desperately to understand what happened. This first feature ever shot entirely in Greenland in the Inuit language is more than a portrait of one family's burden, but a metaphor for the Inuit culture after the Danish occupation of Greenland. "It's a powerful work...with compelling images of a man searching for his soul in an endless wilderness" (Peter Stack, San Francisco Chronicle). Inuit and Danish with English subtitles. 92 minutes.