Poland

70′06″, 2021.

DIRECTED BY

Zuzanna Solakiewicz

PRODUCED BY

Anna Gawlita, Kijora Film

SCRIPTWRITER

Zuzanna Solakiewicz, Zvika Gregory Portnoy

CINEMATOGRAPHER

Zvika Gregory Portnoy

EDITED BY

Zuzanna Solakiewicz

The Edge of the Sky is a three-channel nonlinear film that is as much an experiment in ethnographic audiovisual relation as it is about the way the past is surfacing in Greenland as the present landscape melts and rusts away. The film juxtaposes the scenes of everyday life and imagination for Greenlanders against a landscape increasingly sculpted in alien ways by aging projects of colonial modernization and infrastructure. It probes the way identity, belonging, and place shift with the rising global temperature and the subsequent melting of glaciers, exposing the past as both as at once a revelation, an intrusion, and a dumping ground. Identities melt like the land: passing from hunter, to pagan, to monster, to ancestor.

Zuzanna Solakiewicz is a graduate of Inter-Faculty Individual Studies in the Humanities at the University of Wrocław. In 2005-2009 she stayed in Israel where in 2008 she studied at the Sam Spiegel Film and TV School in Jerusalem. She continued her education on an internship at the Film School in Łódź. She has participated in the following film workshops: the Berlinale Talent Campus, the New Horizons Studio, EAVE, the Jerusalem Film Lab and ScripTeast. In 2019 she completed her feature course Studio Prób at the Wajda School. Her film 15 Corners of the World (2014) has been awarded at the prestigious festival in Locarno.