Movies: Inuit

  • 2023
    Miss Campbell: Inuk Teacher

    Miss Campbell: Inuk Teacher (2023)

    Miss Campbell: Inuk Teacher

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    Part oral history and part visual poem, Miss Campbell: Inuk Teacher is the story of Evelyn Campbell, a trailblazer for an Inuit-led educational system in the small community of Rigolet, Labrador....

    Miss Campbell: Inuk Teacher
  • 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
  • 2008
    Kiyukta

    Kiyukta (2008)

    Kiyukta

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    Kiyukta
  • 2021
    The Boys

    The Boys (2021)

    The Boys

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    Follow this ever brief conversation that is deeper then the actual words between the two woman and their families. Set in the landscape of Iqaluit, a conversation at the airport and a woman’s slow drive home all tell the story in this gentle searing ...

    The Boys
  • 2009
    The Experimental Eskimos

    The Experimental Eskimos (2009)

    The Experimental Eskimos

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    In the early 1960s the Canadian government conducted an experiment in social engineering. Three young Inuit boys were separated from their families in the Arctic and were sent to Ottawa, the nation's capital, to live with white families and to be edu...

    The Experimental Eskimos
  • 2002
    No Loitering

    No Loitering (2002)

    No Loitering

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    An intimate portrait of teenagers trying to understand their world and their possibilities. The film weaves together video shot by teens and by the filmmaker, as they work together to make a film and create expressive outlets for youth in the communi...

    No Loitering
  • 2021
    Evan's Drum

    Evan's Drum (2021)

    Evan's Drum

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    For generations, the sound of traditional Inuit drum dancing fell silent in Labrador due to colonization. In the early 21st century, the beat of the drum returned, and with it a renewed sense of pride in Inuit culture. Evan’s Drum tells the story of ...

    Evan's Drum
  • 2015
    Nowhere Land

    Nowhere Land (2015)

    Nowhere Land

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    Documentary about filmmaker Bonnie Ammaaq's memories of life on Baffin Island, where her family moved for eleven years during her childhood from the hamlet of Igloolik to return to the traditional Inuit way of life....

    Nowhere Land
  • 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
  • 1980
    Death in the Spring

    Death in the Spring (1980)

    Death in the Spring

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    In this animated short the artist tells the story of an Inuit hunter who clubs a seal pup on the ice and then later dies himself. The film's ethereal images are created and transformed in sand....

    Death in the Spring
  • 2021
    Being prepared

    Being prepared (2021)

    Being prepared

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    As the global pandemic reaches into the Arctic Archipelago, Inuk filmmaker Carol Kunnuk documents how unfamiliar new protocols affect her family and community. Her vividly specific soundtrack juxtaposes snippets from local radio broadcasts, issuing h...

    Being prepared
  • 2014
    The Amautalik

    The Amautalik (2014)

    The Amautalik

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    Two young friends are spending a day away from their camp. Unfortunately for them, an ancient land spirit -- an amautalik -- is also in the area. Luckily for them both, one of the children's difficult life has taught him to think quickly....

    The Amautalik
  • 1989
    Eskimos und die Zivilisation

    Eskimos und die Zivilisation (1989)

    Eskimos und die Zivilisation

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    Short film about inuits...

    Eskimos und die Zivilisation
  • 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
  • 1967
    Netsilik Eskimos, VIII: Jigging for Lake Trout

    Netsilik Eskimos, VIII: Jigging for Lake Trout (1967)

    Netsilik Eskimos, VIII: Jigging for Lake Trout

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    More signs of winter's end as more wildlife returns. The family makes an excursion for fresh fish from a lake. They build a karmak and move in the furs, cooking troughs, etc. The woman sets up her lamp, spreads the furs and attends to the children. T...

    Netsilik Eskimos, VIII: Jigging for Lake Trout
  • 2000
    Ikingut

    Ikingut (2000)

    Ikingut

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    In the middle ages a small Greenlandic boy comes drifting with an Iceberg to a remote and superstitious settlement in Iceland and is believed to be an evil spirit by his looks. He saves a young boy from an avalanche and they become friends. The young...

    Ikingut
  • 2015
    Handcrafted Hopedale

    Handcrafted Hopedale (2015)

    Handcrafted Hopedale

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    If you want to find world-class artisans, the small northern Labrador community of Hopedale offers you some of the best. Created through the St. John's International Women's Film Festival's FRAMED film education series, in partnership with the Nunats...

    Handcrafted Hopedale
  • 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
  • 1990
    The Woman Who Raised a Bear as Her Son

    The Woman Who Raised a Bear as Her Son (1990)

    The Woman Who Raised a Bear as Her Son

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    Animated Canadian film....

    The Woman Who Raised a Bear as Her Son
  • 2010
    Qalupalik

    Qalupalik (2010)

    Qalupalik

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    This animated short tells the story of Qalupalik, a part-human sea monster that lives deep in the Arctic Ocean and preys on children who do not listen to their parents or elders. That is the fate of Angutii, a young boy who refuses to help out in his...

    Qalupalik