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 forcibly relocated to the uninhabited and inhospitable high arctic, 1500 kilometres north of their traditional homeland of Nunavik, in northern Québec. The goal of the move was to extend Canadian claims of sovereignty to Ellesmere Island. As a result, Inuit people were forced to endure the pain of families torn apart and many years of hardship. With devastating first-person accounts of survival, the trail of broken promises and shameful practices of the government and the RCMP, this powerful documentary captures the long-standing effects of these events from the perspectives of the people who were forced to endure them.
This classic short film shows how to make an igloo using only snow and a knife. Two Inuit men in Can...
This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northe...
Every winter for decades, the Northwest Territories, in the Canadian Far North, changes its face. Wh...
Director Elisapie Issac's documentary is a sort-of letter to her deceased grandfather addressing the...
In the mid-1950s, lured by false promises of a better life, Inuit families were displaced by the Can...
This feature film is a documentary portrait of Joseph Idlout, a man who was once the world's most fa...
Mosha Michael made an assured directorial debut with this seven-minute short, a relaxed, narration-f...
“Those Who Come, Will Hear” proposes a unique meeting with the speakers of several indigenous and in...
In the early 1960s the Canadian government conducted an experiment in social engineering. Three youn...
Inuit traditional face tattoos have been forbidden for a century, and almost forgotten. Director Ale...
Documentary that follows a lone Inuit as he hunts, fishes and constructs an igloo, a way of life thr...
Red Fever is a witty and entertaining feature documentary about the profound -- yet hidden -- Indige...
An intimate portrait of teenagers trying to understand their world and their possibilities. The film...
Renowned Inuit lawyer Aaju Peter has long fought for the rights of her people. When her son suddenly...
With "sealfies" and social media, a new tech-savvy generation of Inuit is wading into the world of a...
For centuries, Inuit in the Arctic have lived on and around the frozen ocean. Now, as climate change...
In this feature-length documentary, 8 Inuit teens with cameras offer a vibrant and contemporary view...
The time is early autumn. The woman wakes and dresses the boy. He practices with his sling while she...
Two Eskimo families travel across the wide sea ice. Before night falls they build small igloos and w...
The family is on the shore of Pelly Bay in May-June. A seal basks beside its hole under a warming su...