SIKOQQINNGISAANNASSOOQ

27.11.2025

Climate Film Selection/ Norway, 2025, Color, 16'

 
Details
  • Screenplay: Adam Sébire
  • Editing: Adam Sébire
  • Music: Martin Fondse
  • Producer: Adam Sébire
  • Production: Adam Sébire
  • 2025 EarthPhoto New Scientist Editors' Award for Best Film
Recap

A small Inuit community in the Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) region is confronted with the transformation of sea ice caused by climate change. The island's youth project Kalaallisut (West Greenlandic) words describing the disappearing winter season onto the icebergs. These words make the dramatic environmental changes visible. So, is the island facing Sikoqqinngisaannassooq—a future without sea ice?

Director

Adam Sébire

Adam Sébire studied documentary filmmaking at the national film schools in Australia and Cuba; as an artist-filmmaker, his work focuses on climate change. After opening a solo exhibition at Galleri Svalbard in March 2020, he found himself marooned in a lighthouse in Northern Norway due to Australia's Covid-19 border closures. He has since become one of the Arctic Circle's four million inhabitants.

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The Delegation of the European Union to Türkiye organises the annual EU Human Rights Film Days on the anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Click here for the list of films.