Inuit Movies

  • 2021
    Being prepared

    Being prepared

    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...

    Being prepared
  • 2016
    Journey to Greenland

    Journey to Greenland

    Journey to Greenland

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    Thomas and Thomas are going through a rough patch: they are both thirty-something actors living in Paris. They randomly decide to leave the city and...

    Journey to Greenland
  • 2017
    Three Thousand

    Three Thousand

    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,...

    Three Thousand
  • 2013
    Maïna

    Maïna

    Maïna

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    Maïna is the daughter of the Innu leader Mishtenapuu, who attends a bloody confrontation between his clan and the clan of "Men of the Land of...

    Maïna
  • 1967
    Netsilik Eskimos, VI: Building a Kayak

    Netsilik Eskimos, VI: Building a Kayak

    Netsilik Eskimos, VI: Building a Kayak

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    A summer sequence documenting the communal construction of a kayak and associated domestic and subsistence practices.

    Netsilik Eskimos, VI: Building a Kayak
  • 2009
    What Belongs to Inuit

    What Belongs to Inuit

    What Belongs to Inuit

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    A group of Nunavut elders travel to five museums in North America to see and identify artifacts, tools and clothing collected from their Inuit...

    What Belongs to Inuit
  • 2000
    Kikkik

    Kikkik

    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
  • 2015
    One Who Has Two Souls

    One Who Has Two Souls

    One Who Has Two Souls

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    He was called "He Who Has Two Souls". He was beautiful as a woman. And handsome as a man. He hesitated.

    One Who Has Two Souls
  • 2010
    Lumaajuuq

    Lumaajuuq

    Lumaajuuq

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    This animated short is a tragic and twisted story about the dangers of revenge. A cruel mother mistreats her son, feeding him dog meat and forcing...

    Lumaajuuq
  • 2015
    Handcrafted Hopedale

    Handcrafted Hopedale

    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....

    Handcrafted Hopedale
  • 2015
    Kajutaijuq

    Kajutaijuq

    Kajutaijuq

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    An Inuit hunter camped out in the Arctic wilderness discovers that it is not just the extreme elements that threaten his survival.

    Kajutaijuq
  • 2023
    Grape Soda in the Parking Lot

    Grape Soda in the Parking Lot

    Grape Soda in the Parking Lot

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    Taqralik Partridge asks what if every language that had been lost to English — every word, every syllable — grew up out of the ground in...

    Grape Soda in the Parking Lot
  • 2016
    The Owl and the Lemming

    The Owl and the Lemming

    The Owl and the Lemming

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    The oral history of Inuit is filled with many folktales, legends, and myths. In this traditional story, a young owl catches a lemming to eat. Inuit...

    The Owl and the Lemming
  • 1973
    Labrador North

    Labrador North

    Labrador North

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    This short documentary looks at the government relocation of the Labrador Inuit and the effects on their culture and social structures.

    Labrador North
  • 2009
    Martha of the North

    Martha of the North

    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...

    Martha of the North
  • 2013
    The Orphan and the Polar Bear

    The Orphan and the Polar Bear

    The Orphan and the Polar Bear

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    According to Inuit oral history, long ago animals had the power of speech, could shift their appearances, and could even assume human form. In The...

    The Orphan and the Polar Bear
  • 2025
    We See Changes

    We See Changes

    We See Changes

    02025HD

    James Simonee, an Inuit hunter from Pond Inlet, Nunavut, investigates the impacts of one of Nunavut’s largest mines on traditional lands near...

    We See Changes
  • 1967
    Netsilik Eskimos, IV: Group Hunting on the Spring Ice

    Netsilik Eskimos, IV: Group Hunting on the Spring Ice

    Netsilik Eskimos, IV: Group Hunting on the Spring Ice

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    A late-spring sequence documenting domestic life, craft production, and a coordinated seal hunt on the sea ice.

    Netsilik Eskimos, IV: Group Hunting on the Spring Ice
  • 1977
    The Hunters

    The Hunters

    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...

    The Hunters
  • 1933
    Eskimo

    Eskimo

    Eskimo

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    The happy life of an Eskimo is disastrously changed when he mingles with an unscrupulous white trader.

    Eskimo