Zacharias Kunuk Movies

  • 2025
    They Have to Hear Us: Canada’s Duty to Consult Inuit

    They Have to Hear Us: Canada’s Duty to Consult Inuit

    They Have to Hear Us: Canada’s Duty to Consult Inuit

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    Through interviews with Inuit across Nunavut, and documentation of a three-year community hearing process during the COVID pandemic, award-winning...

    They Have to Hear Us: Canada’s Duty to Consult Inuit
  • 2019
    Silakut

    Silakut

    Silakut

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    In a feature documentary, Silakut, filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk talks to people from the five Northern Baffin Communities affected by the proposed...

    Silakut
  • 1970
    Tugaliaq (Ice Blocks)

    Tugaliaq (Ice Blocks)

    Tugaliaq (Ice Blocks)

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    Igloolik, Fall 1945. Even here, news of the terrible world war raging outside makes people frightened and uneasy. They talk of the danger of the...

    Tugaliaq (Ice Blocks)
  • 2009
    Exile

    Exile

    Exile

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    Zacharias Kunuk tackles the subject of the High Arctic Relocation from an Inuit point of view in the documentary Exile. In 1953, Inuit families were...

    Exile
  • 1999
    Nipi (Voice)

    Nipi (Voice)

    Nipi (Voice)

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    From the Unikaatuatiit (Story Tellers) Series. A film by Isuma Productions.

    Nipi (Voice)
  • 2004
    Kunuk Family Reunion

    Kunuk Family Reunion

    Kunuk Family Reunion

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    In June 2003, Cannes prize-winner Zacharias Kunuk's family gathered at their traditional home camp site of Siuraajuk, to share stories and honor the...

    Kunuk Family Reunion
  • 1991
    Messages from the Past

    Messages from the Past

    Messages from the Past

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    In 1991, Igloolik Isuma Productions gathered 13 Igloolik elders for a week of discussion, to choose and then record 24 traditional ajaja songs...

    Messages from the Past
  • 2011
    Inuit Cree Reconciliation

    Inuit Cree Reconciliation

    Inuit Cree Reconciliation

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    Filmmakers Zacharias Kunuk and Neil Diamond join forces on a journey to the remote site where their ancestors once clashed to celebrate 200 years of...

    Inuit Cree Reconciliation
  • 1970
    Qarmaq (Stone House)

    Qarmaq (Stone House)

    Qarmaq (Stone House)

    01970HD

    Igloolik, Fall 1945. Grandmother remembers the old way. In autumn 1945, five families build a stone house to prepare for the coming winter.

    Qarmaq (Stone House)
  • 1998
    Bowhead!

    Bowhead!

    Bowhead!

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    In 1994 one of Canada’s most respected Inuit elders -95 year old Noah Piugatuk – announced that he wanted to taste the bowhead whale one...

    Bowhead!
  • 1985
    From Inuk Point of View

    From Inuk Point of View

    From Inuk Point of View

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    In 1985, Zacharias Kunuk broke the race barrier at Canada Council for the Arts when his Inuktitut-language video, From Inuk Point of View, was the...

    From Inuk Point of View
  • 2003
    Shaman Stories

    Shaman Stories

    Shaman Stories

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    Inuit memories and experiences of shamanism, and oral histories about the last shamans practicing in the region of Igloolik, Nunavut. Interviewees...

    Shaman Stories
  • 2000
    My First Polar Bear

    My First Polar Bear

    My First Polar Bear

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    An 11-year-old is taught by his grandfather to capture his first polar bear.

    My First Polar Bear
  • 2010
    Qapirangajuq: Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change

    Qapirangajuq: Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change

    Qapirangajuq: Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change

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    Director Zacharias Kunuk (Atanarjuat The Fast Runner) and researcher and filmmaker Dr. Ian Mauro (Seeds of Change) have teamed up with Inuit...

    Qapirangajuq: Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change