Silent Snow
OT: Silent Snow
Jan van den Berg // Netherlands, 2011
Documentary Feature // FF2011
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Story
The Arctic plains are an eminent example of nature’s untouched beauty: an endless nothing in which only few know how to survive. But a silent assassin is destroying the Inuit community. By ocean currents and attached to snow, pesticides like DDT are carried northbound into Inuit land, causing illness and premature death of humans and animals. Silent Snow is both a documentary and an investigation project, portraying the people that are affected most, by what turns out to be a structural pollution of the entire global environmental system.
Director
Jan van den Berg, (*1946) originally a cultural anthropologist, started making documentaries in the early seventies. His films are mostly about people at the cutting edge between cultures.Trailer
Info
Silent Snow
Documentary Feature
English
Drei Farben Grün//FF2011
Netherlands
2011
71 min
OV
Jan van den Berg
Jan van den Berg, Pipaluk Knudsen-Ostermann
Jan van den Berg, André Schreuders, Babeth M. VanLoo
Jan van den Berg, Viraj Singh
Boris Everts
Paul Oomens
Jan van den Berg
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