Inuit Movies

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

A late-spring coastal sequence documenting seal hunting and processing on the sea ice.

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

Filmmakers revisit Inukjuak, the Inuit village where Robert J. Flaherty filmed Nanook of the North in the early twentieth century, and examine the...

Inuit traditional face tattoos have been forbidden for a century, and almost forgotten. Director Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, together with long-time...

The movie tells of the contest between two rivals for the love of an Inuk woman. The forces of nature will determine the winner.

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

On the eve of summer vacation, Prune leaves her parents for the traditional "end-of-year school trip." But once she's gone, an incredible snowstorm...

Utquiagvik is the northernmost city in Alaska, located 555 km beyond the Arctic Circle. This meditative documentary follows its young Inuit...

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....

This animated short tells the story of a ferocious polar bear turned to stone by an Inuk shaman. The tale is based on emerging filmmaker Echo...

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....

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...