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Kalak (2024)
Directed by Isabella Eklöf
Drama · 2h 00m
Jan, a nurse who is also a father, was sexually abused by his father as a teenager. Working in Nuuk, Greenland, he tries to connect to the culture with sex. When someone calls him a Kalak, a Greenlandic word with a double meaning of both a "true" and "dirty" Greenlander, he wears the epithet as a badge of honor. Ultimately, he has to confront his father.
Cast
Emil Johnsen
Asta Kamma August
Berda Larsen
Connie Kristoffersen
Søren Hellerup
Anders Mossling
Crew
- Director
- Isabella Eklöf
- Writer
- Sissel Dalsgaard Thomsen, Isabella Eklöf, Kim Leine
- Novel
- Kim Leine
- Director of Photography
- Nadim Carlsen
- Editor
- Isabella Eklöf, Anna Eborn
- Producer
- Maria Møller Kjeldgaard
Details
- Release date
- 2024-03-07
- Runtime
- 2h 00m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- DA
- Spoken languages
- English, Kalaallisut, Danish
- Countries
- Denmark, Finland, Greenland, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden
- Production
- Made, Manna Film, Film i Väst, Mer Film, Lemming Film, Momento Film, Polarama Greenland, Beofilm, DR, SVT, NRK, YLE
- Budget
- $3,000,000