Smilla’s Sense of Snow

Smilla Jaspersen, half Danish, half Greenlander, attempts to understand the passing of a little boy who falls from the roof of her apartment construction. Suspecting wrongdoing, Smilla finds a route of clues leading to a secretive firm which has made many cryptic expeditions to Greenland. Scenes in the movie were taken at Copenhagen and western Greenland. The movie was entered to the 47th Berlin International Film Festival, where director Bille August was nominated for the Golden Bear.