Inuit Movies

Inspired by an Inuit poem first assigned to paper in 1927, this animated short evokes the beauty and power of nature, as well as the bond between...

Red Fever is a witty and entertaining feature documentary about the profound -- yet hidden -- Indigenous influence on Western culture and identity....

In the mid-1950s, lured by false promises of a better life, Inuit families were displaced by the Canadian government and left to their own devices in...

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

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

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

Canadian Inuit life in the early 1940's.

In this feature-length documentary, three generations of the Caribou Inuit family come together to tell the story of their journey as Canada's last...

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...

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

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

“The picture [shows] a number of Esquimaux picking nickels from cracks in a board with their dog whips, in which sport they are very expert. In...

A lonely fisherman drifts into haunted waters in search of food and finds much more than he bargained for. Based on an Inuit folktale.

Taqralik Partridge asks what if every language that had been lost to English — every word, every syllable — grew up out of the ground in...

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

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

It begins as an average hunting trip for two young men, but when they find themselves lost, the only safe haven to be found for miles—a...

A Danish teacher takes a job in Greenland and tries to overcome the animosity of the tight-knit locals through a series of errors that help him...

In this animated short the artist tells the story of an Inuit hunter who clubs a seal pup on the ice and then later dies himself. The film's ethereal...