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Atanarjuat The Fast Runner
Inuit epic set in ancient Igloolik, Atanarjuat The Fast Runner is a life-threatening struggle of love, jealousy, murder and revenge between powerful natural and supernatural characters, Canada's first feature film written, produced, directed, and acted by Inuit. 2001 Camera d'or, Cannes Film Festival; Best Picture, 2002 Genie Awards; #1 Canadian Film of the Decade, Macleans, CTV.
Atanarjuat The Fast Runner, Igloolik Isuma Productions 2001, a film by Zacharias Kunuk, Paul Apak, Pauloosie Qulitalik and Norman Cohn. Inuktut w/Eng s-t.
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Atanarjuat The Fast Runner
Inuit epic set in ancient Igloolik, Atanarjuat The Fast Runner is a life-threatening struggle of love, jealousy, murder and revenge between powerful natural and supernatural characters, Canada's first feature film written, produced, directed, and acted by Inuit. 2001 Camera d'or, Cannes Film Festival; Best Picture, 2002 Genie Awards; #1 Canadian Film of the Decade, Macleans, CTV.
Tia and Piujuq ᑏᐊ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᐱᐅᔪᖅ (Inuktitut version)
ᑏᐊ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᐱᐅᔪᖅ - Tia and Piujuq (Inuktitut version), Arnait Video Productions 2018, Director Lucy Tulugarjuk. Inuktut.
One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk ᓄᐊ ᐱᐅᒑᑦᑑᑉ ᐅᓪᓗᕆᓚᐅᖅᑕᖓ -
In April 1961, John Kennedy is America’s new President, the Cold War heats up in Berlin and nuclear bombers are deployed from bases in arctic Canada. In Kapuivik, north Baffin Island, Noah Piugattuk’s nomadic Inuit band live and hunt by dog team as his ancestors did when he was born in 1900.
MALIGLUTIT (SEARCHERS)
ISUMA: Maliglutit (Searchers) (100 mins), Kingulliit Productions, NITV 2016, Director Zacharias Kunuk, Natar Ungalaaq. Inuktut w/English s-t.
The Journals of Knud Rasmussen
With the powerful forces of a new century pressing in around them, Danish explorer and scientist Knud Rasmussen visits the isolated camp of the great Iglulik shaman, Aua.The Journals of Knud Rasmussen, by Zacharias Kunuk and Norman Cohn, 112 mins. 2005. Second feature in The Fast Runner Trilogy.
Before Tomorrow
Circa 1840. Two isolated families meet after many years. It is summer; a happy time to celebrate their reunion. Despite the joyful mood, Ningiuq, an old woman of strength and wisdom, cannot stop worrying. Is it the illness of her best friend, Kutuguk, who is preparing to die? Or is it the strange foreign object that Maniq, her favourite grandson, found on the beach?