Inuit Movies

A polar bear is hunted by Eskimos. But suddenly the hunt gets interrupted. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.

Inuit traditional face tattoos have been forbidden for a century, and almost forgotten. Director Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, together with long-time...

Inuit artist Asinnajaq plunges us into a sublime imaginary universe—14 minutes of luminescent, archive-inspired cinema that recast the present,...

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

A British explorer brings an Eskimo hunter to London, where he misreads a woman.

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...

The happy life of an Eskimo is disastrously changed when he mingles with an unscrupulous white trader.

The movie tells of the contest between two rivals for the love of an Inuk woman. The forces of nature will determine the winner.

He was called "He Who Has Two Souls". He was beautiful as a woman. And handsome as a man. He hesitated.

A pair head to the frozen wastes with an expedition in search of radium deposits. Certain members of the group succumb to greed, plotting to bump off...

Documentary that follows a lone Inuit as he hunts, fishes and constructs an igloo, a way of life threatened by climate change.

It begins as an average hunting trip for two young men, but when they find themselves lost, the only safe haven to be found for miles—a...

If you want to find world-class artisans, the small northern Labrador community of Hopedale offers you some of the best. Created through the St....

Inspired by an Inuit poem first assigned to paper in 1927, this animated short evokes the beauty and power of nature, as well as the bond between...

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...

It is taking decades for Canada to come to terms with its history in the Arctic, and with its relationship to all its indigenous people....

In the mid-1950s, lured by false promises of a better life, Inuit families were displaced by the Canadian government and left to their own devices in...

Kathrine Switzer, Siila Watt-Cloutier, and Sharon Farmer. They are the first woman to run the Boston Marathon officially, the first woman to connect...