Inuit Movies

  • 2009
    What Belongs to Inuit

    What Belongs to Inuit

    What Belongs to Inuit

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    A group of Nunavut elders travel to five museums in North America to see and identify artifacts, tools and clothing collected from their Inuit...

    What Belongs to Inuit
  • 2016
    Kivalina

    Kivalina

    Kivalina

    5.52016HD

    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...

    Kivalina
  • 1979
    Canada Vignettes: Inuit Pipe

    Canada Vignettes: Inuit Pipe

    Canada Vignettes: Inuit Pipe

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    In this animated short from the Canada Vignette series, the camera explores, in exquisite detail, the daily hunt, fishing scenes and children at play...

    Canada Vignettes: Inuit Pipe
  • 2015
    Nimmikaage: She Dances for People

    Nimmikaage: She Dances for People

    Nimmikaage: She Dances for People

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

    Nimmikaage: She Dances for People
  • 2009
    The Experimental Eskimos

    The Experimental Eskimos

    The Experimental Eskimos

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    In the early 1960s the Canadian government conducted an experiment in social engineering. Three young Inuit boys were separated from their families...

    The Experimental Eskimos
  • 2011
    Seven Sins: Sloth

    Seven Sins: Sloth

    Seven Sins: Sloth

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

    Seven Sins: Sloth
  • 2013
    The Orphan and the Polar Bear

    The Orphan and the Polar Bear

    The Orphan and the Polar Bear

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    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...

    The Orphan and the Polar Bear
  • 1990
    The Woman Who Raised a Bear as Her Son

    The Woman Who Raised a Bear as Her Son

    The Woman Who Raised a Bear as Her Son

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    Animated Canadian film.

    The Woman Who Raised a Bear as Her Son
  • 1983
    Our Land, Our Truth

    Our Land, Our Truth

    Our Land, Our Truth

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

    Our Land, Our Truth
  • 2008
    Kiyukta

    Kiyukta

    Kiyukta

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    Kiyukta
  • 2021
    Being prepared

    Being prepared

    Being prepared

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    As the global pandemic reaches into the Arctic Archipelago, Inuk filmmaker Carol Kunnuk documents how unfamiliar new protocols affect her family and...

    Being prepared
  • 2015
    Ogress of the Gravelbank

    Ogress of the Gravelbank

    Ogress of the Gravelbank

    02015HD

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

    Ogress of the Gravelbank
  • 2015
    Little Folk of the Arctic

    Little Folk of the Arctic

    Little Folk of the Arctic

    02015HD

    In the folklore of most cultures around the world there are stories of magical little folk. And the Arctic is no exception. Inuit traditional...

    Little Folk of the Arctic
  • 2010
    Qalupalik

    Qalupalik

    Qalupalik

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    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...

    Qalupalik
  • 1967
    Netsilik Eskimo Series, II: At the Caribou Crossing Place

    Netsilik Eskimo Series, II: At the Caribou Crossing Place

    Netsilik Eskimo Series, II: At the Caribou Crossing Place

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    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...

    Netsilik Eskimo Series, II: At the Caribou Crossing Place
  • 1958
    The Living Stone

    The Living Stone

    The Living Stone

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    The Living Stone is a 1958 Canadian short documentary film directed by John Feeney about Inuit art. It shows the inspiration behind Inuit sculpture....

    The Living Stone
  • 1967
    Netsilik Eskimo Series, I: At the Autumn River Camp

    Netsilik Eskimo Series, I: At the Autumn River Camp

    Netsilik Eskimo Series, I: At the Autumn River Camp

    5.51967HD

    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...

    Netsilik Eskimo Series, I: At the Autumn River Camp
  • 2014
    The Big Lemming

    The Big Lemming

    The Big Lemming

    02014HD

    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...

    The Big Lemming
  • 2015
    Nowhere Land

    Nowhere Land

    Nowhere Land

    02015HD

    Documentary about filmmaker Bonnie Ammaaq's memories of life on Baffin Island, where her family moved for eleven years during her childhood from the...

    Nowhere Land
  • 2003
    If the Weather Permits

    If the Weather Permits

    If the Weather Permits

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    Director Elisapie Issac's documentary is a sort-of letter to her deceased grandfather addressing the question of Inuit culture in the modern world.

    If the Weather Permits