Inuit Movies

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...

This classic short film shows how to make an igloo using only snow and a knife. Two Inuit men in Canada’s Far North choose the site, cut and...

James Simonee, an Inuit hunter from Pond Inlet, Nunavut, investigates the impacts of one of Nunavut’s largest mines on traditional lands near...

This short documentary depicts the formation in 1959 of the first successful co-operative in an Inuit community in Northern Québec. The film...

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

Nalujuk Night is an up close look at an exhilarating, and sometimes terrifying, Labrador Inuit tradition. Every January 6th from the dark of the...

A lonely fisherman drifts into haunted waters in search of food and finds much more than he bargained for. Based on an Inuit folktale.

A late-winter/early-spring sequence documenting lake-ice fishing, camp life, and subsistence practices.

A portrait of Inuit hunter and artist Lypa Pitsiulak, who decided to return to the land several years ago. His goal was to rediscover his culture,...

A love-struck man discovers he has an incurable illness shortly after meeting the woman of his dreams.

This animated short tells the story of Qalupalik, a part-human sea monster that lives deep in the Arctic Ocean and preys on children who do not...

Canadian Inuit life in the early 1940'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,...

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

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

An Inuit youth trains to become a great archer in hopes of avenging the killing of his family – but the First Nations attackers were punishing...

In the early 1960s the Canadian government conducted an experiment in social engineering. Three young Inuit boys were separated from their families...

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

For generations, the sound of traditional Inuit drum dancing fell silent in Labrador due to colonization. In the early 21st century, the beat of the...