Inuit Movies

This short documentary studies life in the village of Kangirsujuaq, Nunavik. In this community on the edge of the Arctic Ocean, children’s...

A portrait of Ulayok Kaviok, one of the last of a generation of Inuit, born and bred on the land. Ulayok and her family, like many Inuit today,...

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

The world knows the image of the good Canadian. But what if there was a dark secret behind a national identity? THE GOOD CANADIAN exposes the truth...

A late-winter sea-ice sequence documenting camp building and seal hunting under extreme Arctic conditions.

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

A late-autumn seasonal sequence documenting camp building, fishing, tool-making, and preparation for winter as a Netsilingmiut family travels...

A summer river sequence documenting stone-weir fishing, communal labor, and domestic life.

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

In a small Arctic town struggling with the highest suicide rate in North America, a group of Inuit students' lives are transformed when they are...

An early-autumn sequence documenting domestic life and a coordinated communal caribou hunt at a river crossing camp.

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

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

In this feature-length documentary, 8 Inuit teens with cameras offer a vibrant and contemporary view of life in Canada's North. They also use their...

Kathrine Switzer, Siila Watt-Cloutier, and Sharon Farmer. They are the first woman to run the Boston Marathon officially, the first woman to connect...

Living with Giants delves into the imaginative world of Paulusie Kasudluak, a young Inuk facing responsibilities as he transitions into adulthood....

For centuries, Inuit in the Arctic have lived on and around the frozen ocean. Now, as climate change is rapidly melting the sea ice between Canada...

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