Walls – Akinni Inuk
A prisoner and a filmmaker form a bond in a women’s prison in Greenland. This intimate documentary explores trauma, hope, and the possibility of new beginnings.
Which side of prison walls you end up in life is sometimes up to small details.
Ruth has spent almost half of her life in prison in Greenland. She has been sentenced to prison for an indeterminate period, and her hopes of freedom seem ever more distant as days go by, even though the country’s peculiar incarceration system is based on the principle of social rehabilitation.
The Danish-Greenlandic director duo Sofie Rørdam and Nina Paninnguaq Skydsbjerg record how Nina and Ruth’s discussions get deeper and broader, moving from Ruth’s situation to Nina’s own traumas and grief. The director becomes part of the story, and a unique friendship is built between the two. While one of them is officially free, both are weighed down by their pasts and personal mental shackles.
Greenland, suddenly in the spotlight of global politics, offers a rugged background for Ruth’s story, which reflects the problems the island faces, such as alcoholism and domestic violence. The prison and the justice system as a whole are practical examples of the authority of Denmark and its consequences.
Fundamentally Walls is an intimate film about the healing power of friendship, of hope, and the new opportunities life offers in the middle of hardship.
Anna-Sofia Joro (translated by Herman Tikkanen)
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