"Silent Snow"

(2011), 71 min., Documentary

Direction: Jan van den Berg; Camera: Jan van den Berg / Brigit Hillenius; Editor: Boris Everts; Consulting Editors: Srdjan Fink, Stella van Voorst van Beest; Sound design: Bart Jilesen; Production: Sabine Groenewegen

Cast: Pipaluk Knudsen-Ostermann, Ole Jorgen

Official Website: http://www.silentsnow.org

An Inuit search for solutions to the chemical poisoning of the world.

A silent assassin is destroying the Inuit community in Greenland. Chemical residues from all over the world accumulate here invisibly, poisoning humans and animals. Via currents in the ocean and attached to snow, pesticides like DDT are carried northbound into Inuit land, causing illness and premature death. Silent Snow is a documentary project investigating, together with the people who are affected the most, what turns out to be a structural pollution of the entire global environmental system.