Heart of Light (1998)

Cuando el mundo es consciente de que el asteroide más grande de la historia va a impactar en la Tierra y aniquilar todo rastro de vida, los gobiernos de todo el mundo realizan un sorteo en el cual los afortunados podrán sobrevivir en refugios secretos. Esta decisión desata un caos a nivel mundial. Muchos tendrán que emprender un peligroso viaje donde se enfrentarán a los más imponentes peligros de la naturaleza, lo que les obligará a encontrar la manera de mantenerse unidos mientras encuentran la forma de sobrevivir.

Es el año 2020 y el científico ambiental Thom Archer sugiere que una empresa perforadora de energía que trabaja en el glaciar de Groenlandia está causando el derretimiento del casquete polar. Como nadie le cree, se va al Ártico en busca de pruebas irrefutables.

Isla de Ellesmere, norte de Canadá, 1908. Josephine, una mujer valiente pero ingenua, emprende un peligroso viaje por inhóspitas regiones en busca de su esposo, el explorador Robert Peary, que intenta encontrar una ruta hacia el Polo Norte.

Thomas y Thomas están pasando por una mala racha: ambos son actores de treinta y tantos años y viven en París. Un día, deciden irse de la ciudad y volar a Kullorsuaq, uno de los pueblos más remotos de Groenlandia, donde vive Nathan el padre de uno de ellos. En la comunidad Inuit van a descubrir el encanto de las costumbres locales y pondrán a prueba su amistad.

When the humiliation and grief of his eldest son's shooting rampage and subsequent suicide threatens to pull him under, a brokenhearted father (Rasmus Lyberth) leaves his family and tight-knit community and heads into Greenland's bleak landscape. As he journeys forth on an antiquated dogsled with no destination, he eventually finds solace -- and the soul he lost long ago -- in the form of a mystical hermit (Anda Kristiansen).

21 de enero de 1968, un bombardero B-52 estadounidense que transportaba cargas nucleares se ha estrellado en el hielo polar cerca de la base militar aérea norteamericana en Thule, Groenlandia. Unos días más tarde, responsables del gobierno calificarán el accidente como un «Broken Arrow» —es decir, un incidente donde intervienen armas nucleares pero no reviste peligro—, no habiendo motivo para preocuparse en torno a contaminación radiactiva o violación de la política nuclear por parte de una potencia extranjera. Centenares de trabajadores de Thule están trabajando en una inmensa operación de limpieza. Después de 8 meses, todos los restos de la aeronave y la nieve contaminada con plutonio han desaparecido. El caso está cerrado. No obstante, y 18 años más tarde, mientras cubría una historia sobre trabajadores locales, el reportero Paul Brink se verá inmerso en sospechosas circunstancias que le llevarán al oculto accidente nuclear del 68.

THE EXPERIMENT is the story of the nurse Gert, who is appointed as headmistress of a special children's home, owned by the Danish state in Greenland, 1951. The children's home is intended to accommodate 16 carefully selected Greenlandic children, who have just come home after a year of civilization in Denmark. Now they are to be introduced into the Greenlandic community as role models. Gert, who lives alone and has no family, accepts the assignment with pride. She is idealistic and ambitious and feels passionate about saving Greenland from destitution. The means to this end is to educate and civilize the 16 children in the Danish language and culture, so they can spearhead Greenland's transformation from being a poor hunter society to being an equal part of Denmark. Due to her blind faith in the experiment, Gert underestimates the obvious personal costs to the children. And when the children as well as the Danish state fail her...

A young teacher, Eva Nygaard, arrives in Greenland from Denmark to surprise her fiance, the Doctor Erik Halsøe, but is crushed to find he has not waited for her and he is about to be married to his assisting nurse. Eva travels to a small fishing village to await the next ship back to Denmark. There she enters into a tense and often confrontational relationship with Jens, a quiet moody Dane who manages a trading company outpost. Meanwhile, Jens is trying to persuade a Greenlander named Pavia to become a company fisherman, despite Pavia's fear of alienating his fellow villagers and upsetting the spirit, Qivitoq.

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