Inuk

Inuk is a 16-year-old teen who lives in Nuuk, the capital of Greenland, with his alcoholic mother and violent step-father. One morning, after rescuing the half-frozen boy from an abandoned car, social services decide to send him to a children’s home futher north, on a tiny island in the middle of the Arctic Ocean.

There, Inuk meets Ikuma, a local polar bear hunter with his own set of problems. Haunted by his troubled past, Ikuma’s hunting skills are mysteriously disappearing.

Aviaaja, the warm-hearted director of the children’s home, asks Ikuma to take Inuk on his annual seal-hunting trip. She is certain that despite the risks of such a long and dangerous journey, Inuk will learn that he has a valiant past and a hopeful future.

So when Inuk - the city boy - joins Ikuma - the last great hunter of the North - on this epic journey by dog sled, they will face much more than the bitter cold and the fragile sea ice. The most difficult part of the journey will be the one they must make within themselves…