The YouTube Screening Room is showing the award winning short film “Sikumi (On the Ice)”. Check out the 15 minute short. Here’s a synopsis:

Sikumi (On the Ice) is the story of Apuna (Brad Weyiouanna), an Inuit hunter, who drives his dog team out on the frozen Arctic Ocean in search of seals and inadvertently becomes a witness to murder. In the microscopic communities of Arctic Alaska there is no anonymity, thus the hunter knows both the victim and the murderer. The murderer, Miqu (Tony Bryant), claiming self-defense and desperate to avoid punishment, tries to persuade his friend to forget what he has seen, and help dispose of the body. Apuna is then forced to navigate the uneasy morality between honoring the body and memory of one friend and destroying the life of another.

BTW – It’s the winner of the Jury Prize for Short Filmmaking at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.

Sikumi (On the Ice)