Director: Nicolas Vanier
Location: Topolinoe, the Verkhoyansk Range, Yakutia/Siberia.
A few moments ago I’ve sent all my friends a request to join the movie Facebook fan page http://www.facebook.com/pages/Le-Voyage-dInuk-On-thin-Ice/60867737760
Just want to let friends know about this amazing film made on a beautiful island inhabited with good people! Greenland with the town of Uummannaq, Greenland, is that place.
By the way… Ole Jorgen Hammeken is among my fb friends. It’s a man, who starred in the movie. He is depicting that brutal-look guy on a sledge, who was asked to care an orphan-teenager, Inuk, as his son.
The Inuk film is not on big screens yet. It is currently shown only on special premiers around the world. Each screening appears to be a big event. Recently it was appraised in Oslo during the last International Polar Year conference. Very good feedbacks this movie has. Hope one day it will make it to Yakutsk!
Enjoy the Arctic!
About the movie (more…)
Greetings from Iceland. This northern island is more alive than ever, bursting with energy, activity and hospitality. Take a look for yourself – click and be inspired by Iceland!
Shared by Gissur, a Cold United facebook fan. Thanks a lot, Gissur! 
A movie that didn’t leave me indifferent…
How I Ended This Summer (Translit from Russian: Kak ya provyol etim letom) is a 2010 Russian drama film directed by Alexei Popogrebski. It was nominated for the Golden Bear at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival.
Synopsis: Two men working at an isolated meteorological station on an Arctic island gradually begin to lose touch with reality.
Two Arctic/North Pole scientific expeditions. Take your time and enjoy the Arctic! This beauty is fragile. Climate changes and global warming, you know, do gain ground.
Video #1: Jean-Louis Etienne’s Generali Arctic Observer
A famous French Arctic explorer Jean-Louis Etienne’s The North Pole balloon crossing from Spitsbergen to Siberia’s Yakutia in April of 2010. Check out the Generali Arctic Observer expedition website. More info on his landing and rescue operation in Siberia’s Yakutia, north from the village of Batagai, Verkhoyansky region, at eYakutia.com.
Video #2: North Pole + Nuclear Icebreaker Yamal + Magic of Arctic Ice
From Russia’s Chukotka via the North Pole to Scandinavia by the Russian nuclear powered ice-breaker “Yamal”. You may also want to go to the North Pole. Hurry up! The Arctic is melting fast. It sounds like a joke, but, unfortunately, it is not.
If you can recommend more videos with the awesome Arctic views, please, share. Leave your links in comments.
The Winter Road Documentary Poster
This is the trailer of Nikolay Evstifeev’s documentary “THE WINTER ROAD. The Land of Fierce…” about the sever work in Siberia’s Yakutia. Here you can see how hard ordinary people’s work can be in the hardest part of Siberia. The documentary won The Best Directing Award at The 17th Saint Anna Film Festival and The Best Cinematography Award at The 29th VGIK Film Festival. Btw, Anton Safronov was a camera man.
The documentary is about Yakutia, the sever land of truckers, gold miners, hunters, and oil industry workers. Extreme conditions are revealed in every capture. Survival at minus 50 degrees Celsius, the road on the frozen river, people’s attitude to nature, wild life… and PEOPLE without false manners and any compromises.
“This movie is very sincere! This is a real big documentary!” said Michael Porechenkov, the chairman of the 29th VGIK Film Festival jury, a famous Russian actor. (more…)
His name is Andrei. He is the director of sports center in the settlement of Tomtor in the valley of Oymyakon. In winter with its usual extremely cold weather, he likes running from home to his work place in the early morning and… swimming in the Kujdusun brook, that gets never frozen even under -50 degrees Centigrade.
Via Hannes Rada
About the video
“I always wondered: what Angel of Uummannaq might look like? Would it be wearing skins and kamiks, like Greenlandic Ken who is fashioned in polar bear pants and a seal parka? Would it be flying above the ice cap or beneath the sea ice? Would it be driving the dogs?.. I staged this little Arctic Ballet on Ice to find the answer.” Chaika1961 [Galya Morrell].
Who is Galya Morrell?
Galya Morrell is the NY-based educator, who coordinates the fantastic Uummaannaq Music project in Greenland, Norway. She describes her initiative as “the most unusual Music Festival at the Ice School for Orphaned Eskimo Children in Uummaannaq, Greenland, 590 kilometers north of the Artic Circle.”
Please visit her blog for more information and enjoy what kind of good deeds she and her colleagues do for Eskimo kids. By the way, browse through her beautiful winter pictures. White snow, blue ice, happy kids and wonderful music!
Join also the Uummaannaq Music Facebook fan page.
I wish I would be there : ))
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Yeah, I love beer, but it wasn’t the reason of republishing this video. That’s awesome snowy, cold, wild landscapes of Canada!
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