Movies: Inuit

  • 2015
    Of Ravens and Children

    Of Ravens and Children (2015)

    Of Ravens and Children

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    Of Ravens and Children
  • 2003
    If the Weather Permits

    If the Weather Permits (2003)

    If the Weather Permits

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    Director Elisapie Issac's documentary is a sort-of letter to her deceased grandfather addressing the question of Inuit culture in the modern world....

    If the Weather Permits
  • 2009
    Nuummioq

    Nuummioq (2009)

    Nuummioq

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    A love-struck man discovers he has an incurable illness shortly after meeting the woman of his dreams....

    Nuummioq
  • 2009
    Martha of the North

    Martha of the North (2009)

    Martha of the North

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    In the mid-1950s, lured by false promises of a better life, Inuit families were displaced by the Canadian government and left to their own devices in the Far North. In this icy desert realm, Martha Flaherty and her family lived through one of Canadia...

    Martha of the North
  • 2012
    Timuti

    Timuti (2012)

    Timuti

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    In Inukjuak, an Inuit community in the Eastern Arctic, a baby boy has come into the world and they call him Timuti, a name that recurs across generations of his people, evoking other Timutis, alive and dead, who will nourish his spirit and shape his ...

    Timuti
  • 1990
    Between Two Worlds

    Between Two Worlds (1990)

    Between Two Worlds

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    This feature film is a documentary portrait of Joseph Idlout, a man who was once the world's most famous Inuit. Unknown to most Canadians today, Idlout was the subject of many films and books, and one of the Inuit hunters pictured for many years on t...

    Between Two Worlds
  • 2020
    Kajanaqtuq

    Kajanaqtuq (2020)

    Kajanaqtuq

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    Kajanaqtuq (2020) is a short experimental film that features the voice of Inuk elder Naulaq LeDrew. She speaks about her home in Nunavut, Canada and how Inuit lifestyles have changed since her youth. Altered Super 8mm film footage of the region illus...

    Kajanaqtuq
  • 2014
    Children of the Arctic

    Children of the Arctic (2014)

    Children of the Arctic

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    Children of the Arctic is a portrait of five Native Alaskan teenagers growing up in Barrow - the northernmost community in the United States. As their climate and culture undergo profound changes, they strive to balance being modern American kids and...

    Children of the Arctic
  • 2017
    Shaman

    Shaman (2017)

    Shaman

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    This animated short tells the story of a ferocious polar bear turned to stone by an Inuk shaman. The tale is based on emerging filmmaker Echo Henoche's favourite legend, as told to her by her grandmother in her home community of Nain, Nunatsiavut, on...

    Shaman
  • 1964
    Eskimo Artist: Kenojuak

    Eskimo Artist: Kenojuak (1964)

    Eskimo Artist: Kenojuak

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    This documentary shows how an Inuit artist's drawings are transferred to stone, printed and sold. Kenojuak Ashevak became the first woman involved with the printmaking co-operative in Cape Dorset. This film was nominated for the 1963 Documentary Shor...

    Eskimo Artist: Kenojuak
  • 1956
    Qivitoq

    Qivitoq (1956)

    Qivitoq

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    A young teacher, Eva Nygaard, arrives in Greenland from Denmark to surprise her fiancé, the Doctor Erik Halsøe, but is crushed to find he has not waited for her and he is about to be married to his assisting nurse. Eva travels to a small fishing vill...

    Qivitoq
  • 2007
    Qallunaat!

    Qallunaat! (2007)

    Qallunaat!

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    Qallunaat! Why White People Are Funny is an irreverent look at Western Civilization through Inuit eyes. Inspired by the satirical essays of Zebedee Nungak, the film turns the tables on generations of anthropologists, teachers, adventurers and adminis...

    Qallunaat!
  • 1975
    Natsik Hunting

    Natsik Hunting (1975)

    Natsik Hunting

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    Mosha Michael made an assured directorial debut with this seven-minute short, a relaxed, narration-free depiction of an Inuk seal hunt. Having participated in a 1974 Super 8 workshop in Frobisher Bay, Michael shot and edited the film himself. His voi...

    Natsik Hunting
  • 1964
    The Annanacks

    The Annanacks (1964)

    The Annanacks

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    This short documentary depicts the formation in 1959 of the first successful co-operative in an Inuit community in Northern Québec. The film describes how, with other Inuit of the George River community, the Annanacks formed a joint venture that incl...

    The Annanacks
  • 2011
    Seven Sins: Sloth

    Seven Sins: Sloth (2011)

    Seven Sins: Sloth

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    Sloth pokes gentle fun at stereotypes about the Inuit people, past and present....

    Seven Sins: Sloth
  • 1967
    Netsilik Eskimo Series, I: At the Autumn River Camp

    Netsilik Eskimo Series, I: At the Autumn River Camp (1967)

    Netsilik Eskimo Series, I: At the Autumn River Camp

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    It is late autumn and the Eskimos travel through soft snow and build karmaks, shelters with snow walls and a roof of skins, in the river valley. The geese are gone but some musk-ox are seen. The man makes a toy sleigh from the jawbones of a caribou a...

    Netsilik Eskimo Series, I: At the Autumn River Camp
  • 2010
    The Bear Facts

    The Bear Facts (2010)

    The Bear Facts

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    In this animated short, a self-important colonial explorer emerges from a sailing ship and plants a flag on the Arctic ice, as a bemused Inuit hunter looks on. Then the explorer plants another, and another, and another, while the hunter, clearly not ...

    The Bear Facts
  • 2003
    Islet

    Islet (2003)

    Islet

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    For an Inuit fisherman, technology means absurdity. Floating out on a block of ice, he doesn't have any other choice to grab onto some flying fish to save himself....

    Islet
  • 2015
    Neige

    Neige (2015)

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    Neige
  • 2000
    Kikkik

    Kikkik (2000)

    Kikkik

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    It is taking decades for Canada to come to terms with its history in the Arctic, and with its relationship to all its indigenous people. “Kikkik” is the story of government mistakes and neglect, of starvation, murder, freezing death, but, in the end,...

    Kikkik