The tiny Alaskan island of Kivalina lies 80 miles above the Arctic Circle and is home to 400 Iñupiaq Eskimos whose ties to the region date back centuries. Here, food is central to community, and a spirit of collaboration presides. Family members gather to prepare caribou meat on their living room floor, and villagers broadcast news about a recent walrus catch over a loudspeaker, encouraging anyone who wants fresh meat to show up with a bag. But thinning ice, rising sea levels, and coastal erosion endanger this traditional way of life—hunting is growing harder, and Kivalina is disappearing into the Arctic Ocean. This quiet depiction of a community at a crossroads takes us from a teen dance night to church service to public meetings with U.S. government officials, who for decades have reneged on promises to relocate the village. By turns intimate and cinematic, Kivalina conveys the heart of a persevering people connected to their land and to each other.  EM