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<\/div>\n<\/p>\nIN \u201cVillage at the End of the World\u201d the stark and dramatic scenery of Niaqornat, a remote community in north-west Greenland, is so mesmerising it is easy to forget that the Inuit village may be doomed. Among the village’s foes are climate change, a dwindling local economy and the allure of the digital world. When Sarah Gavron and David Katznelson arrived in 2009 to make a documentary, Niaqornat had 59 inhabitants. By the end of filming 18 months later it had 53. \u201cThere is this sort of magic number of 50 that is talked about,\u201d explains Ms Gavron, \u201cunder which [Danish] subsidies will be stopped and the supply ship won\u2019t come anymore.\u201d The village appears to be persisting on borrowed time and money.<\/p>\n
The film concentrates on four characters: Karl, the mayor and chief hunter who is fighting to re-open the fish-processing factory (closed in 2008 due to falling profits); Ilannguaq, a chatty sewage and refuse collector who moved to Niaqornat from the south after meeting a local girl online; Ane, the oldest woman in the village and a charismatic storyteller; and Lars, a sweet but desperately bored teenager who is toying with the idea of…Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n