Movies: Inuit

  • 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
  • 2009
    Exile

    Exile (2009)

    Exile

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    Zacharias Kunuk tackles the subject of the High Arctic Relocation from an Inuit point of view in the documentary Exile. In 1953, Inuit families were forcibly relocated to the uninhabited and inhospitable high arctic, 1500 kilometres north of their tr...

    Exile
  • 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!
  • 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
  • 1967
    Tuktu and the Trials of Strength

    Tuktu and the Trials of Strength (1967)

    Tuktu and the Trials of Strength

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    In this short docu-fiction film, strong and hardy Inuit hunters demonstrate and test their strength in boxing, tug-of-war, and other strenuous activities. We see and hear the drum dance, a demonstration of Inuit poetry and rhythm....

    Tuktu and the Trials of Strength
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2017
    Three Thousand

    Three Thousand (2017)

    Three Thousand

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    Inuit artist Asinnajaq plunges us into a sublime imaginary universe—14 minutes of luminescent, archive-inspired cinema that recast the present, past and future of her people in a radiant new light. Diving into the NFB’s vast archive, she parses the c...

    Three Thousand
  • 1988
    Nanook Revisited

    Nanook Revisited (1988)

    Nanook Revisited

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    Filmmakers revisit Inukjuak, the Inuit village where Robert J. Flaherty filmed Nanook of the North in the early twentieth century, and examine the realities behind the ground-breaking documentary....

    Nanook Revisited
  • 2019
    Giant Bear

    Giant Bear (2019)

    Giant Bear

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    Centered on a confrontation between the last monster bear and an Inuit hunter, Giant Bear is a chilling short that brings an ancient story out of the North....

    Giant Bear
  • 2017
    Qipisa

    Qipisa (2017)

    Qipisa

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    The director goes back to her roots in Pangnirtung, amongst her family and community. It leads her to another journey: to Qipisa, the outpost camp from where they were uprooted....

    Qipisa
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2015
    Of Ravens and Children

    Of Ravens and Children (2015)

    Of Ravens and Children

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    Of Ravens and Children
  • 1934
    Man of Two Worlds

    Man of Two Worlds (1934)

    Man of Two Worlds

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    A British explorer brings an Eskimo hunter to London, where he misreads a woman....

    Man of Two Worlds
  • 1977
    The Hunters

    The Hunters (1977)

    The Hunters

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    This film joins a hunting-party of inhabitants of the Frobisher Bay Correctional Centre. The stalking, killing and skinning of seal and caribou are featured prominently, with explanations as to the importance of these animals to the Inuit way of life...

    The Hunters
  • 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