School of Minerals and Mining

Format: Documentary film / essay
Direction: Elias Bötticher / Simona Volpe
Screenplay: Elias Bötticher / Simona Volpe
Camera: Elias Bötticher

Story

From Switzerland, one of the largest commodity trading centres in the world, we look to Sisimiut, where the mining school trains young Greenlanders to become mining technicians. It is a promise of economic independence while global powers vie for rare earths under the melting ice. A questioning and observing research work about geopolitical tentacles prodding the ice.