Walls – Akinni Inuk

Snow-covered mountains, the roar of the sea, freezing air – and amid all that: prison walls, barbed wire, small wooden barracks. For the past twelve years, Ruth has been in prison in Greenland. Because the Greenlandic penal system is under the formal control of Denmark and the judicial authority is unclear, she was sentenced to an indefinite period of detention. When filmmaker Nina visits the prison as part of a documentary film project, a friendship develops between the two women that transcends the scope of the project itself. They are linked by past traumatic experiences of similar nature. But one woman is now locked up, while the other is leading an autonomous life. It could have been the other way around, Nina says in one of the many emotional conversations. Nina's friendship with Ruth helps Nina to come to terms with her own past, and Ruth finds in Nina the human warmth that she so sorely misses. Then, suddenly, a glimmer of hope for Ruth: her case has been re-opened ...