The relationship between Greenland and Denmark is full of fantasy and myths. And these are exactly what Danish artist Lasse Lau reflects upon – and in turn documents – in his first feature-length film. But how do you give a form to the Greenlandic experience when you are an outsider yourself? Lau has created a sensitive film about authenticity and recreation by letting both elements become a part of the work, together with his performers. But also by watching and listening intently. The colonial history is entrenched in both Greenland's infinitely beautiful landscapes and in the collective consciousness. But so is the willingness to break with it and look ahead with a new political self-awareness. 'Lykkelænder' is the result of a long-term research project, but talks about its extremely complex topics in a way that grounds the postcolonial perspective in a recognisable life experience. It does so with both a sense of humour and with emphasis.
Bartender
Remake de "La vida secreta de Walter Mitty", película estrenada en 1947 y que fue dirigida por Norman Z. McLeod. La historia se basaba en un relato de James Thurber que giraba en torno al tímido empleado de una editorial que consigue evadirse de su gris existencia imaginando que es el héroe de grandes aventuras; un día, su sueño se hace realidad cuando conoce a una misteriosa mujer que le implica en una peligrosa misión.
Grandmother
A love-struck man discovers he has an incurable illness shortly after meeting the woman of his dreams.
Part of the Daughters of the Country series, this film, set in the 1850s, unfolds against the backdrop of the Hudson's Bay Company's monopoly of the fur trade. In protest, some Métis engage in trade with the Americans. Madeleine, the Métis common-law wife of a Hudson's Bay Company clerk, is torn between loyalty to her husband and loyalty to her brother, a freetrader. Even more shattering, a change in company policy destroys Madeleine's happy and secure life, forcing her to re-evaluate her identity.
