This Road of Mine

A Feature Film by Pipaluk Kreutzmann Jørgensen

Country: Greenland

SYNOPSIS

It’s 1990. Two best friends, Nukaakkuluk and Arnaq, grow up on Gertrud Raskvej, a small town community in Nuuk, the Arctic capital of Greenland. Nukaakkuluk has a loving and caring family, while her best friend Arnaq is living alone with her dad after her mom died from cancer. As the two girls grow up, they learn hard, inevitable lessons of loyalty, as death, laughter, love, violence, hope and suicide are always present on their little street.

THIS ROAD OF MINE story, takes you on Nukaakkuluk’s journey from small-town Nuuk to the capital of Canada, to the beautiful landscapes of Iceland as she searches for her identity in this big, little world.

A coming-of-age story, this film is based on true events, and follows a story about friendship, and about two girls catching one another in life. DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT

IIn my upbringing, I could play on the street, and a woman would run past me with a fork in her head.

Moments later we’d sit around the dinner table as a family, eating and laughing together. At night our best friend could die in a car crash, but life had to go on, and somehow we learned to survive in all the madness. But what we really learned was the true value of friendship and loyalty, and what it takes to survive on the street of GERTRUD RASKVEJ.

Being brought up in an Arctic community, you live so close together that your neighbour’s problems are your own problems. I want to show the story of two friends, who experience the world with the same possibilities, and tragedies, and desires, but who choose completely different paths.

Imagine a mix between Beaches and Goodfellas, set in Greenland’s Arctic capital.

Growing up in a post-colonial society...

A subclass society meets the modern world...

Inspired by a true story