Inuit Movies

Through interviews with Inuit across Nunavut, and documentation of a three-year community hearing process during the COVID pandemic, award-winning...

This documentary shows how an Inuit artist's drawings are transferred to stone, printed and sold. Kenojuak Ashevak became the first woman involved...

Both a requiem for and an honoring of Canada's First Nations, Métis, and Inuit women, this short film deconstructs the layers of Canadian...

Combining figurative abstraction with magic realism, this animated short depicts a world in which whales fall out of the sky and fish turn into...

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

Inuit oral history is filled with strange beings and supernatural creatures. One of these feared land spirits is the Ogress of the Gravelbank. This...

“One of the principal features at the Pan-American Exposition is the Alaskan or Esquimaux Village. In this most interesting exhibit, scenes are...

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

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...

Sloth pokes gentle fun at stereotypes about the Inuit people, past and present.

Made in collaboration with the Inuit Tungavingat Nunamini, this film focuses on those dissident members of the Inuit community who rejected the...

In a small town in the Canadian Arctic, Ippik, a young Inuit woman, suffers in an abusive relationship. She starts to heal when she connects with...

Brief history and profile of Inuit communities in Northern Labrador and the role of the Moravian missionaries in the region. Warning for outdated and...

In this animated short, a self-important colonial explorer emerges from a sailing ship and plants a flag on the Arctic ice, as a bemused Inuit hunter...

The Inuit folktale of an old woman and the orphaned polar bear cub she took in as her own child.

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

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

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

Every winter for decades, the Northwest Territories, in the Canadian Far North, changes its face. While the landscape is covered with snow and lakes...

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