In Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat), the word Sila holds everything at once: the weather, the breath, the consciousness connecting all living things. Watch the film for a donation of any amount, or upgrade to unlock the full 13-film collection and talk series.
Your contribution will support Indigenous projects and grant you access to a live online gathering July 28–29 with the Indigenous community leaders featured in the film.
This tender, nonlinear documentary follows Inuit women moving through three hundred years of Danish colonialism, including a medical program that inserted contraceptive devices into girls as young as thirteen without their consent.
Their bodies became a site of colonial administration. Yet the film journeys into ceremony, into the shaman’s call home, the heartbeat of the drum, the needle-drawn return of ancestral markings erased by missionaries. Sila holds grief and remembering in the same breath, a remembering that travels through the long line of mothers, all the way back to the first conscious human being. Still there. Still listening.
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Watch the film for a donation of any amount, or upgrade to unlock the full 13-film collection and talk series.
Your contribution will support Indigenous projects and grant you access to a live online gathering July 28–29 with the Indigenous community leaders featured in the film.
The Breath Behind Everything: Drum Dancing, Sacred Markings, and Belonging
- The history of Danish colonial rule and cultural suppression in Greenland
- The resilient, modern movement of Inuit cultural renewal
- Honouring ancestral knowledge through drums and traditional tattooing
Subtitles available: English, Czech, German, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian.
