Eisfuchs

Winter is over, and so is the time when children must stay indoors because it is bitterly cold outside, high in northern Canada, on the edge of the Arctic Ocean. In spring, the children take control of the town, wandering the streets and tundra in search of adventures. Their escapades are so wild that they even risk their lives. The adults are preoccupied with their own problems and cannot offer support. On the contrary. Tanya Tagaq tells in this breathtaking debut about the childhood and youth of a girl in the Arctic: about an overpowering nature, the ubiquitous foxes, the majestic polar bears, and the myths of the Inuit. Under the fearsome and enchanting northern lights, the boundaries between human and nature, time and space blur for the girl, leading her on a disturbingly sensual journey of self-discovery to heal the wounds that everyone bears in a dissolving community.