Inuit Movies

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

A late-autumn seasonal sequence documenting camp building, fishing, tool-making, and preparation for winter as a Netsilingmiut family travels...

The first of two coproductions by the British Broadcasting Corporation and the National Film Board of Canada, People of the Seal, Part 1: Eskimo...

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

For generations, the sound of traditional Inuit drum dancing fell silent in Labrador due to colonization. In the early 21st century, the beat of the...

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

This documentary closely follows a group of people living in the Bering Strait and delves into the fundamental aspects of their daily lives, their...

His recent animation Kablunât: Legend of the Origin of the White People (2016) draws from a Nunatsiavummiut legend recorded by a Moravian...

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

A late-winter/early-spring sequence documenting lake-ice fishing, camp life, and subsistence practices.

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 spring sea-ice sequence documenting travel, camp construction, domestic labor, and seal hunting among Netsilingmiut families.

This short documentary depicts the formation in 1959 of the first successful co-operative in an Inuit community in Northern Québec. The film...

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

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

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

Children of the Arctic is a portrait of five Native Alaskan teenagers growing up in Barrow - the northernmost community in the United States. As...

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