Life on the ice: one last hunt for Norway's sealers

Campaigners believed they’d ended the Norwegian seal hunt. But then two young filmmakers reignited a nation’s interest in the traditionThere’s not a lot of poetry in killing seals – not in the rifle shot, nor in the swing of the infamous sealer’s club, the hakapik, not in the blood on the ice. But there’s poetry in the ocean. In Sealers: One Last Hunt, a Norwegian documentary film about the end of a way of life that is anathema to most of us in Europe, a group