The Visitors

Zdenka settled with her husband and three sons in an unlikely place: Longyearbyen, the northernmost city in the world. She wants to call Norway’s Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic Ocean home. But her ideals soon melt away like glaciers during climate change. The anthropologist interviews locals about how the multicultural community is changing because of globalization. In doing so, she soon discovers how cold the relations between Norwegians and immigrants are in this already icy landscape, and she herself becomes an unwelcome guest in the local community. Director Veronika Lišková has made a portrait of a polar microcosm, while simultaneously showing the rawness of the contemporary globalized world.