Greenland is a country of just over 55,000 people. A population that couldn’t fill Wembley Stadium, living on the largest island in the world.

Despite having less than half the year to play outdoors, a national team that FIFA refuses to recognise, and a national championship that lasts just one week every summer, football is at the heart of every town across this ice strewn country.

But while Greenlandic people are fighting to play the sport they love, the world around them is changing. With traditional livelihoods and Inuit culture under threat, people must battle ever changing elements through long, dark, arctic winters, and adapt to the impact climate change has had on their way of life.

Playing On The Edge follows a small community in Northern Greenland who look to the sun and football for hope. Living with people who were born and raised in the town, we see how people’s lives are beginning to change irreversibly. As the ice melts around them, this is a story about a country’s unlikely national sport and the people it brings together.

Made for BBC Natural History Unit and Copa90 by Drumkit Productions : Cuán Roche, Angus Gannagé and Julian Roberts.

Shot on Arri Amira with Fujinon Premista zoom, Zeiss UltraPrimes. Outstanding 2nd camera, UAV and timelapse photography from Freddie Clare. Graded by Luke Morrison of the Electric Theatre Collective in London. Big thanks to S+O Media for their support in this project.