JEG HUSKER ... FORTÆLLINGER FRA GRØNLAND

An Inuit Universe. Fourteen Greenlanders, all of whom have stories to tell, provide a fascinating portrait of a land and its people through their tales of childhood and youth. We hear about a 14-year old orphan boy who catches his first narwhale, about a boy who accidentally kills his puppy, about a woman who hears a qivittoq's cry of horror, about a shaman who must battle his spirit when he decides to become a Christian.

Jeg husker ... fortællinger fra Grønland emerges as a fascination, an overwhelming enthusiasm for the filmmaker's discovery that the oral storytelling tradition in the easternmost and westernmost regions of Greenland extends back as a matter of course not only to the pre-industrial culture, to the society of hunters and fishermen, but all the way back to a pre-Christian perception of the world, to an Inuit universe that must be very close to what we call a primordial culture.

"The bold approach of the film is to isolate every single story and its storyteller in one long scene to form its own images. The film insists and relies on these imaginery scenes, which evolve into a large, dreamlike tapestry of images we have never seen before." Allan Berg Nielsen, Danish Film Institut