Silent Snow

A invisible assassin is destroying the Inuit community in Greenland. Chemical residues from all over the world accumulate here invisibly, poisoning humans and animals. Via currents in the ocean and attached to snow, pesticides like DDT are carried northbound into Inuit land, causing illness and premature death.

“Silent Snow” is a documentary project investigating, together with the people who are affected the most, what turns out to be a structural pollution of the entire global environmental system. In the short film, we follow two young girls in Northern Greenland while they are travelling to a disappearing village where one of them still lives. Against a background of melting ice they discuss the pollution which is not only dramatically changing their lives, but threatening the entire world.