Arctic spleen
Arctic spleen
Piergiorgio Casotti
Italy, Greenland / 2014 / 63'
Arctic spleen
Piergiorgio Casotti
Italy, Greenland / 2014 / 63'

A personal intimate journey inside the Greenlandic juvenile world where nature, violence, boredom and a strong cultural legacy have been claiming for decades the highest toll: that of hundreds of young lives. In East Greenland 25% of youths aged between 15 and 25 try to end their lives every year. 2% of them succeed. The experiences of Ole, Elvira, Hans and Kaleraaq, who survived to several attempts, are not isolated stories but the mirror of the fears of a huge part of young Greenlanders inclined to suicide.

Language: Italian, English

Subtitles: Italian

Director

Piergiorgio Casotti

Photographer and videomaker, born in Reggio Emilia in 1972, after studying photography at the Pratt Institute in New York he devoted himself to documentary photography and since 2011 he started working on ARCTIC SPLEEN. In 2019 he shot the documentary COSE CHE NON SI ASSOMIGLIANO for Teatri di Reggio Emilia, and in 2020 LA MACCHIA MONGOLICA featuring Massimo Zamboni.

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