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Melting the ice in the human heart

How close, how intimate, have you ever gotten with Greenland?

A new documentary called “Stella Polaris,” directed by Yatri Niehaus -- part of Chicago's 10th annual Peace on Earth Film Festival -- takes you on a meditative journey to this lonely, extraordinary island, to its melting ice, its rampaging waters and crumbling glaciers, where climate change is a part of daily life, and where the native people have wisdom and heart to offer the rest of us.

It begins with a slow meditation on the beauty of the ice. Then, six minutes in,

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