Inuit Movies
- 2009
What Belongs to Inuit
What Belongs to Inuit02009HD
A group of Nunavut elders travel to five museums in North America to see and identify artifacts, tools and clothing collected from their Inuit...
- 2016
Kivalina
Kivalina5.52016HD
The rarely seen lives of an Arctic tribe who try to continue to honor their way of life 80 miles above the Arctic Circle on a fragile barrier island...
- 1979
Canada Vignettes: Inuit Pipe
Canada Vignettes: Inuit Pipe01979HD
In this animated short from the Canada Vignette series, the camera explores, in exquisite detail, the daily hunt, fishing scenes and children at play...
- 2015
Nimmikaage: She Dances for People
Nimmikaage: She Dances for People02015HD
Both a requiem for and an honoring of Canada's First Nations, Métis, and Inuit women, this short film deconstructs the layers of Canadian...
- 2009
The Experimental Eskimos
The Experimental Eskimos62009HD
In the early 1960s the Canadian government conducted an experiment in social engineering. Three young Inuit boys were separated from their families...
- 2011
Seven Sins: Sloth
Seven Sins: Sloth02011HD
Sloth pokes gentle fun at stereotypes about the Inuit people, past and present.
- 2013
The Orphan and the Polar Bear
The Orphan and the Polar Bear02013HD
According to Inuit oral history, long ago animals had the power of speech, could shift their appearances, and could even assume human form. In The...
- 1990
The Woman Who Raised a Bear as Her Son
The Woman Who Raised a Bear as Her Son01990HD
Animated Canadian film.
- 1983
Our Land, Our Truth
Our Land, Our Truth01983HD
Made in collaboration with the Inuit Tungavingat Nunamini, this film focuses on those dissident members of the Inuit community who rejected the...
- 2008
Kiyukta
Kiyukta02008HD
- 2021
Being prepared
Being prepared02021HD
As the global pandemic reaches into the Arctic Archipelago, Inuk filmmaker Carol Kunnuk documents how unfamiliar new protocols affect her family and...
- 2015
Ogress of the Gravelbank
Ogress of the Gravelbank02015HD
Inuit oral history is filled with strange beings and supernatural creatures. One of these feared land spirits is the Ogress of the Gravelbank. This...
- 2015
Little Folk of the Arctic
Little Folk of the Arctic02015HD
In the folklore of most cultures around the world there are stories of magical little folk. And the Arctic is no exception. Inuit traditional...
- 2010
Qalupalik
Qalupalik6.32010HD
This animated short tells the story of Qalupalik, a part-human sea monster that lives deep in the Arctic Ocean and preys on children who do not...
- 1967
Netsilik Eskimo Series, II: At the Caribou Crossing Place
Netsilik Eskimo Series, II: At the Caribou Crossing Place51967HD
The time is early autumn. The woman wakes and dresses the boy. He practices with his sling while she spreads a caribou skin to dry. The boy picks...
- 1958
The Living Stone
The Living Stone5.81958HD
The Living Stone is a 1958 Canadian short documentary film directed by John Feeney about Inuit art. It shows the inspiration behind Inuit sculpture....
- 1967
Netsilik Eskimo Series, I: At the Autumn River Camp
Netsilik Eskimo Series, I: At the Autumn River Camp5.51967HD
It is late autumn and the Eskimos travel through soft snow and build karmaks, shelters with snow walls and a roof of skins, in the river valley. The...
- 2014
The Big Lemming
The Big Lemming02014HD
A stop-motion short tells the story of a male owl, driven by hunger, as he goes in search of food in a late-spring snowstorm - but in his pursuit he...
- 2015
Nowhere Land
Nowhere Land02015HD
Documentary about filmmaker Bonnie Ammaaq's memories of life on Baffin Island, where her family moved for eleven years during her childhood from the...
- 2003
If the Weather Permits
If the Weather Permits82003HD
Director Elisapie Issac's documentary is a sort-of letter to her deceased grandfather addressing the question of Inuit culture in the modern world.