Key Participants

Kirsten who works at the local fish factory, is the teenager with whom we experience life in Maniitsoq as it is. She dreams about a life different from that of her parents and peers. She longs to be independent, but it’s hard to break with her heavy social legacy.

Peter Olsen was the first Greenlander to obtain a master’s degree from the University of Greenland. As the town’s appointed aluminum coordinator, he has great plans and visions for Maniitsoq and his homeland. But as aluminum coordinator for a plant which does not exist, Peter ends up struggling with broken dreams

Gideon is a therapist on a mission to heal his nation of the wounds and scars embedded deeply in its very soul. His own past has been anything but easy, but his philosophy is that everyone must stop waiting for salvation from without, and instead look in the mirror to overcome guilt and shame. Only then can one become independent, as an individual and as a nation.

Key Issues

Winter’s Yearning is an excellent tool for outreach and will be of special interest to people who want to explore the following topics:

● Indigenous rights

● Colonialism and its legacy

● Self determination

● Economic opportunity vs exploitation

● Independence vs interdependence

● Generational trauma

● Poverty

● Addiction and dependency

● Climate change

● Environmentalism