In Uummannaq, North-West Greenland, children carve Indigenous words into the sea ice, naming what is being lost and imagining a future without ice.
In Uummannaq, North-West Greenland, children carve Kalaallisut words into the sea ice: words that describe frozen land, sea, winter and a way of life in retreat. Each word names something being lost. Together, they generate a new one: “sikoqqinngisaannassooq” — the possibility of a future without sea ice.
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Film Details
Country: Norway
Year: 2025
Running time: 16 minutes
Language: Kalaallisut, with English subtitles
Rating: NC PG
Distributor: Adam Sébire
Screened at LandxSea
LandxSea Film Festival 2026
12 September 2026 · Montrose Playhouse
Premiere: UK Premiere
Special guest: Director Adam Sébire
About the Filmmaker
Adam Sébire
Adam Sébire studied documentary at the national film schools of Australia & Cuba; as an artist-filmmaker his works focus almost exclusively on climate change and the Anthropocene. The day after opening a solo exhibition on Svalbard in March 2020 he found himself marooned in a remote Norwegian lighthouse by Australia’s 18-month Covid border closures; to the present day he remains one of the Arctic’s 4 million human inhabitants.