Inuit Movies

Ulivia explores what is accessible via the Internet in relation to Inuktitut. A complex language with several dialects which varies from one...

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 Warning for outdated and...

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

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

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

A portrait of Inuit hunter and artist Lypa Pitsiulak, who decided to return to the land several years ago. His goal was to rediscover his culture,...

This short documentary studies life in the village of Kangirsujuaq, Nunavik. In this community on the edge of the Arctic Ocean, children’s...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

How Inuit peoples perform arts and crafts, on the island of Baffin Island on what is now the territory of Nanavut.

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

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.