The two directors of the documentary ‘WALLS – Akinni Inuk’, Sofie Rørdam and Nina Paninnguaq Skydsbjerg, have received the award for best debut director at the British Raindance Film Festival
The instructors Sofie Rørdam and Nina Paninnguaq Skydsbjerg have this week won an award for their work with the film ‘WALLS – Akinni Inuk’.
The two have received the award as ‘best debut director’ at the British Raindance Film Festival.
Nina Paninnguaq Skydsbjerg is delighted with the award in a post on Facebook:
– I don’t think I fully understand it yet. And I don’t yet know exactly what this award will mean – but I do know it feels big. For the film, for us and for Greenlandic stories, writes the film director in the post, where she also thanks a number of key people who helped make the film.
A total of ten films at the festival were nominated in the same category as ‘WALLS – Akinni Inuk’, which is about a meeting between two Greenlandic women in the prison in Nuuk.
One is the woman Ruth, who is serving an indefinite custodial sentence, and the other is film producer Nina from Nuuk, who becomes involved in Ruth’s fate during a documentary project about the prison system in Greenland.
The film had its world premiere at the Danish film festival CPH:DOX, where it won the award for Best Nordic Documentary.
In 2025, the film was also canceled by Greenland’s oscar committee to Oscar for Best International Film.
The film can be watched right now DR.
