Inuit Movies

The world knows the image of the good Canadian. But what if there was a dark secret behind a national identity? THE GOOD CANADIAN exposes the truth...

An Eskimo who has had little contact with white men goes to a trading post where he accidentally kills a missionary and finds himself being pursued...

Renowned Inuit lawyer Aaju Peter has long fought for the rights of her people. When her son suddenly dies, Aaju embarks on a journey to reclaim her...

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

A late-spring sequence documenting domestic life, craft production, and a coordinated seal hunt on the sea ice.

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

A summer river sequence documenting stone-weir fishing, communal labor, and domestic life.

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...

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...

The documentary proposes a unique meeting with the speakers of several indigenous and inuit languages of Quebec – all threatened with...

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

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.

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

An intimate portrait of teenagers trying to understand their world and their possibilities. The film weaves together video shot by teens and by the...

Filmmakers revisit Inukjuak, the Inuit village where Robert J. Flaherty filmed Nanook of the North in the early twentieth century, and examine the...

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

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

An Inuit hunter camped out in the Arctic wilderness discovers that it is not just the extreme elements that threaten his survival.

For centuries, Inuit in the Arctic have lived on and around the frozen ocean. Now, as climate change is rapidly melting the sea ice between Canada...

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