‘Nuummioq’ tells the story of a young man’s odyssey from mundane existence into an acute sense of the sacred. Like most regular guys in the tiny capital city, Malik works, cavorts with buddies, and fools around—toggling between Danish and Greenlandic languages. All at once, when he discovers he’s very ill, mortality intrudes. Keeping the news to himself, Malik accompanies his cousin on a boat trip. What begins as an unremarkable outing becomes a transcendent journey at the edge of the world as he grapples with his elusive past and tunes into the present.

So breathtaking and luminous is Nuummioq’s landscape that you can almost feel the brisk air oxygenating your lungs. The soft play of shadow and light on the characters’ faces seems to suggest that we’re only a flicker in nature’s vast radiance, but during our short time here, there’s family, tradition, and maybe even love.

Director
Otto Rosing,
Torben Bech

Screenplay
Torben Bech

Producer
Mikisoq Hove Lynge,
Michael Bevort

Director of Photography
Bo Bilstrup

Editor
Henrik Fleischer,
Niels Ostenfeld

Sound
Johnni Løvkvist

Composer
Jan de Vroede

Duration
100 min.

Language
Greenlandic, Danish

Subtitle
Greenlandic, Danish, English