Life on the Edge

An Inuit educator navigates the stunning landscapes of Greenland as he seeks to help people in their struggles with mental health.

Once greatly troubled himself – haunted by a friend’s death and his own brushes with violence – Nuka has turned his life around. He journeys through the remote indigenous settlements of Greenland, speaking about mental health and suicide prevention. Surrounded by vast glaciers and ice sheets, a land at the very edge of the world, Nuka works with a troubled teen, a phlegmatic hunter and a single mother; each has demons they are trying to come to terms with, and a desire to break with cycles of intergenertational trauma. Beautifully shot, capturing the primordial nature of this solitary environment,Life on the Edge, balances breathtaking images of towering icebergs with compassionate portraits of Nuka and those he seeks to help. These indigenous stories are, by turns, moving, generous and life-affirming.