Inuit Movies

  • 2016
    Kablunât: Legend of the Origin of the White People

    Kablunât: Legend of the Origin of the White People

    Kablunât: Legend of the Origin of the White People

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    His recent animation Kablunât: Legend of the Origin of the White People (2016) draws from a Nunatsiavummiut legend recorded by a Moravian...

    Kablunât: Legend of the Origin of the White People
  • 1998
    Amarok's Song - The Journey to Nunavut

    Amarok's Song - The Journey to Nunavut

    Amarok's Song - The Journey to Nunavut

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    In this feature-length documentary, three generations of the Caribou Inuit family come together to tell the story of their journey as Canada's last...

    Amarok's Song - The Journey to Nunavut
  • 2011
    The Dimming

    The Dimming

    The Dimming

    02011HD

    The Sun and the Moon are born, as a woman searches to reveal the identity of her mystery lover in this strikingly animated Inuit creation tale.

    The Dimming
  • 2011
    Tunniit: Retracing the Lines of Inuit Tattoos

    Tunniit: Retracing the Lines of Inuit Tattoos

    Tunniit: Retracing the Lines of Inuit Tattoos

    02011HD

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

    Tunniit: Retracing the Lines of Inuit Tattoos
  • 2023
    Miss Campbell: Inuk Teacher

    Miss Campbell: Inuk Teacher

    Miss Campbell: Inuk Teacher

    02023HD

    Part oral history and part visual poem, Miss Campbell: Inuk Teacher is the story of Evelyn Campbell, a trailblazer for an Inuit-led educational...

    Miss Campbell: Inuk Teacher
  • 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
  • 2020
    Kajanaqtuq

    Kajanaqtuq

    Kajanaqtuq

    02020HD

    Kajanaqtuq (2020) is a short experimental film that features the voice of Inuk elder Naulaq LeDrew. She speaks about her home in Nunavut, Canada and...

    Kajanaqtuq
  • 1932
    Greenland, 1932

    Greenland, 1932

    Greenland, 1932

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    Danish documentary filmed in Greenland. Shows a lot of Greenlanders, skiing, hunting for birds, seals and whales, and ice fishing. Filmed by Dr. Leif...

    Greenland, 1932
  • 2021
    The Boys

    The Boys

    The Boys

    02021HD

    Follow this ever brief conversation that is deeper then the actual words between the two woman and their families. Set in the landscape of Iqaluit, a...

    The Boys
  • 2019
    Giant Bear

    Giant Bear

    Giant Bear

    02019HD

    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...

    Giant Bear
  • 1964
    Eskimo Artist: Kenojuak

    Eskimo Artist: Kenojuak

    Eskimo Artist: Kenojuak

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    This documentary shows how an Inuit artist's drawings are transferred to stone, printed and sold. Kenojuak Ashevak became the first woman involved...

    Eskimo Artist: Kenojuak
  • 2014
    Children of the Arctic

    Children of the Arctic

    Children of the Arctic

    92014HD

    Children of the Arctic is a portrait of five Native Alaskan teenagers growing up in Barrow - the northernmost community in the United States. As...

    Children of the Arctic
  • 1914
    Greenland, 1914

    Greenland, 1914

    Greenland, 1914

    01914HD

    Danish documentary following different locations and situations in Greenland anno 1914. It comes around settlements, hunters, steamboats, umiaks, a...

    Greenland, 1914
  • 1967
    Netsilik Eskimos, VI: Building a Kayak

    Netsilik Eskimos, VI: Building a Kayak

    Netsilik Eskimos, VI: Building a Kayak

    51967HD

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

    Netsilik Eskimos, VI: Building a Kayak
  • 2000
    Ikingut

    Ikingut

    Ikingut

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    In the middle ages a small Greenlandic boy comes drifting with an Iceberg to a remote and superstitious settlement in Iceland and is believed to be...

    Ikingut
  • 2015
    Nimmikaage: She Dances for People

    Nimmikaage: She Dances for People

    Nimmikaage: She Dances for People

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    Both a requiem for and an honoring of Canada's First Nations, Métis, and Inuit women, this short film deconstructs the layers of Canadian...

    Nimmikaage: She Dances for People
  • 1995
    Broken Promises: The High Arctic Relocation

    Broken Promises: The High Arctic Relocation

    Broken Promises: The High Arctic Relocation

    01995HD

    In 1953 the Canadian government relocated Inuit families from Northern Québec to the High Arctic, promising an abundance of game and fish and...

    Broken Promises: The High Arctic Relocation
  • 2020
    Inuit Languages in the 21st Century

    Inuit Languages in the 21st Century

    Inuit Languages in the 21st Century

    62020HD

    Ulivia explores what is accessible via the Internet in relation to Inuktitut. A complex language with several dialects which varies from one...

    Inuit Languages in the 21st Century
  • 2021
    Being prepared

    Being prepared

    Being prepared

    02021HD

    As the global pandemic reaches into the Arctic Archipelago, Inuk filmmaker Carol Kunnuk documents how unfamiliar new protocols affect her family and...

    Being prepared
  • 1979
    Canada Vignettes: Inuit Pipe

    Canada Vignettes: Inuit Pipe

    Canada Vignettes: Inuit Pipe

    01979HD

    In this animated short from the Canada Vignette series, the camera explores, in exquisite detail, the daily hunt, fishing scenes and children at play...

    Canada Vignettes: Inuit Pipe