This collection assembles the first animated films to be made by Inuit artists at the NFB. Featured is work by Solomonie Pootoogook, Timmun Alariaq, Mathew Joanasie, and Itee Pootoogook Pilaloosie—all participants in the Cape Dorset (Baffin Island) Film Animation Workshop, established to teach animation skills to local artists. The soundtrack features performances by Aggeok and Peter Pitseolok. Commentary is provided in a blend of Inuktitut and English.
Three young Inuits set off in search of a promised land to save their clan from starvation.
Animated Canadian film.
The Sun and the Moon are born, as a woman searches to reveal the identity of her mystery lover in th...
The film explores the way traditional hunting in Nunavut has evolved so that it can continue to play...
Centered on a confrontation between the last monster bear and an Inuit hunter, Giant Bear is a chill...
When an impulsive boy named Kenai is magically transformed into a bear, he must literally walk in an...
According to Inuit oral history, long ago animals had the power of speech, could shift their appeara...
In the folklore of most cultures around the world there are stories of magical little folk. And the ...
Inuit oral history is filled with strange beings and supernatural creatures. One of these feared lan...
Two young friends are spending a day away from their camp. Unfortunately for them, an ancient land s...
It begins as an average hunting trip for two young men, but when they find themselves lost, the only...
The oral history of Inuit is filled with many folktales, legends, and myths. In this traditional sto...
The story of an ice-fishing trip taken by two unlikely friends—Ukaliq the Arctic hare and Kalla the ...
A stop-motion short tells the story of a male owl, driven by hunger, as he goes in search of food in...
Sloth pokes gentle fun at stereotypes about the Inuit people, past and present.
This animated short tells the story of a ferocious polar bear turned to stone by an Inuk shaman. The...
A lonely fisherman drifts into haunted waters in search of food and finds much more than he bargaine...
Inspired by an Inuit poem first assigned to paper in 1927, this animated short evokes the beauty and...
In this animated short, a self-important colonial explorer emerges from a sailing ship and plants a ...
This animated short tells the story of Qalupalik, a part-human sea monster that lives deep in the Ar...