Thoughts about the film
by Laila Hansen, director
Escaping to another country in order to live in total anonymity, driven by great emotional pain, agony and burdens too heavy to bear. Escaping from a community that demands more of you than your mind can hold. Escaping from a country trying to find its identity, and enduring social problems, big beyond comprehension.
In a country so beautiful and pure you give up the struggle for life, a struggle that entails embracing one's own life, being part of daily life and giving one's children a decent life.
Instead spending one's time and efforts sitting on a bench and enjoying your beer and later touring the bars. This is what many women from Greenland have chosen to do, thus exposing themselves to a high rate of mortality and self-destruction.
The film INUK WOMAN CITY BLUES dives into the district of Vesterbro in Copenhagen, where many of these women end their days. We visit their universe through poems and music, and hear them talk about their lives. Not in a factual way, more from a philosophical perspective.
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