Inuit Movies

Based on a local legend and set in an unknown era, it deals with universal themes of love, possessiveness, family, jealousy and power. Beautifully...

A spring sea-ice sequence documenting travel, camp construction, domestic labor, and seal hunting among Netsilingmiut families.

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

Inuit artist Asinnajaq plunges us into a sublime imaginary universe—14 minutes of luminescent, archive-inspired cinema that recast the present,...

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

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

Based on the journal of Knud Rasmussen's "Great Sled Journey" of 1922 across arctic Canada. The film is shot from the perspective of the Inuit,...

A Danish teacher takes a job in Greenland and tries to overcome the animosity of the tight-knit locals through a series of errors that help him...

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...

A young shaman must face her first test: a trip underground to visit Kannaaluk, The One Below, who holds the answers to why a community member has...

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...

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

The hunting habits of the Inuit in the eastern Arctic.

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

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....

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

Centered on a confrontation between the last monster bear and an Inuit hunter, Giant Bear is a chilling short that brings an ancient story out of the...

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

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

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...