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Thursday, July 16, 2026

Sila - Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland)


Opening: 6:00 PM
Main Event: 6:00 PM
End Time: 8:30 PM

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In Greenland, the word Sila holds everything at once — the weather, the breath, the consciousness connecting all living things. This tender, nonlinear documentary follows Inuit women moving through three hundred years of Danish colonialism: forced baptisms, children sent abroad to be remade, and a systematic medical programme that inserted contraceptive devices into girls as young as thirteen, without consent, without warning, without asking. Their bodies became a site of colonial administration. Their wombs, silenced.

The film journeys into ceremony — the shaman's call home, the heartbeat of the drum, the slow needle-drawn return of ancestral body markings erased within a century of missionary arrival. Visually luminous and spiritually attuned, Sila holds grief and remembering in the same breath: a remembering that travels through bone and nerve and the long line of mothers, all the way back to the first conscious human being. Still there. Still listening.

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Organizer: RCNV and SAND

Event Location: RCNV 612 Ocean St

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Admission: No Charge

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