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Ivalu (2023)

★★ — Ivalu (2023)

Ivalu is a Danish-Greenlandic short film, running just sixteen minutes, that earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Live Action Short Film at the 2024 ceremony. It was co-directed by Anders Walter, who previously won the Oscar in that same category for Helium (2013), making this a notable return to the short form for him, and Pipaluk K. Jørgensen, a Greenlandic filmmaker bringing an insider perspective to the material. Shot on location in Greenland, the production leaned heavily on the landscape itself as a dramatic element, working with a largely indigenous cast including Mila Heilmann Kreutzmann. The film addresses the serious issue of missing and exploited women in Greenlandic communities, a subject with real social weight in the region.

A-Z World Movie Tour Greenland Apparently this was nominated for an Academy Award or an Oscar for short stories. One common theme now as I'm going through these countries is abuse. There are constantly films coming up about abuse. The weirdness of this short is that it's absolutely beautifully filmed, beautifully scored and overall could have gone lots of different ways. Missing sibling.... Horrible incestuous abuse. Can't really give this more than a 2*

Rating: ★★ | Year: 2023 | Watched: 2025-06-23

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