Feature films and doumentaries by filmmakers throughout Inuit Nunangat, including classics like Atanarjuat The Fast Runner, children's films like Tia and Piujuq, recent features like Restless River and One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk and long-form documentaries.
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.… Read more
Mixing scenes from past and present, My Father's Land (Ataatama Nunanga) looks at the meanings between Inuit history and modern mining in North Baffin Island; how new media is used to inform and consult Inuit leading up to July 2012 Nunavut Impact Review Board (NIRB) Final Public Hearings on Baffinland's $6 billion Mary River proposal to build the world's largest iron mine on Inuit land between… Read more
Trailer of the first Inuit feature film Atanarjuat The Fast Runner, a life-threatening struggle of love, jealousy, murder and revenge between powerful natural and supernatural characters set in ancient Igloolik. Watch this complete film on iTunes.
In August 2016, The Journals of Knud Rassussen opened the Tillutarniit (pulses) film series in Montreal. Zach explains the motivations of making this film, details the historical context behind the story, as well as the research and filming process.
Four years after Atanarjuat The Fast Runner showed Inuit life in the mythological past, The Journals of Knud Rasmussen depicts events in 1922 when Shamanism was replaced by Christianity and the balance of Inuit life was changed forever, while the Danish explorer Knud Rasmussen happened to be passing by. Watch this complete film on iTunes.
Nunavut, circa 1913. Kuanana returns from a caribou hunt to discover his wife and daughter kidnapped, and the rest of his family slaughtered. His father's spirit helper, the loon Kallulik, sets him on course to overturn fate and reunite his family. Watch this complete film on iTunes.
