Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner

Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner

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

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The Journals of Knud Rasmussen

The Journals of Knud Rasmussen

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...

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The National Parks Project

The National Parks Project

In an increasingly urban nation, Canada’s national parks are a treasured escape into extraordinary beauty and rugged wilderness. If the Group of...

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Searchers

Searchers

Inuk filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk (Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner) returns with this Arctic epic inspired by the classic John Ford western of the same...

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Edge of the Knife

Edge of the Knife

Island of Haida Gwaii, northern Canada, 19th century. During a fishing gathering, Adiits'ii commits an unfortunate act. Tormented, he runs away to...

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One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk

One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk

1961. In Kapuivik, an Inuit man named Noah Piugattuk and his compatriots are visited by a white man who says they have to move to a reservation.

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Qapirangajuq: Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change

Qapirangajuq: Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change

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

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The Shaman's Apprentice

The Shaman's Apprentice

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...

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Fish Traps

Fish Traps

As summer ends near Igloolik in the 1930's, three families build a saputi to trap fish going upriver for the winter. The days are getting shorter...

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Silakut

Silakut

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

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Exile

Exile

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

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Gathering Place

Gathering Place

Four Inuit families build a qaggiq, a large communal igloo, to mark the approach of spring with singing and games. A young man woos a girl but her...

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What Belongs to Inuit

What Belongs to Inuit

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

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Wrong Husband

Wrong Husband

A new feature film from Zacharias Kunuk. Set hundreds of years in the past, the film draws on old Inuit legends to tell the story of an arranged...

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Sirmilik

Sirmilik

Director Zacharias Kunuk explores Sirmilik National Park, near the Nunavut community of Pond Inlet, through the voice of an Inuit elder. Winner...

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Going Inland

Going Inland

For the Igloolik Inuit, summer is the time of Nunaqpa, 'going inland,' that is, hunting for caribou to get sufficient meat provisions for the cold...

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Nipi (Voice)

Nipi (Voice)

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

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From Inuk Point of View

From Inuk Point of View

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...

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Messages from the Past

Messages from the Past

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

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