Arctic Crime & Punishment
Illulissat. Greenland. A frontier town 250 miles north of the Arctic Circle. A community of hunters and fishermen with five regular policemen, one amateur judge and a very high incidence of violent crime.
Naalu Jeremiassen, a mother of four, and Jens Reimer, a hunter, both find themselves in police detention. She has killed her husband. He has punched and kicked his wife to within an inch of her life. Neither can remember exactly what happened...
The film sets an intimate exploration of their cases in the context of a hunter- gatherer society whose notion of justice and punishment is extremely tolerant, but whose very way of life is collapsing in the face of 'progress'.
