Inuit Movies

Maïna is the daughter of the Innu leader Mishtenapuu, who attends a bloody confrontation between his clan and the clan of "Men of the Land of...

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

A short film based on an Inuit folktale. From Darkness tells the story of a lonely fisherman who drifts into haunted waters in search of food and...

A British explorer brings an Eskimo hunter to London, where he misreads a woman.

The happy life of an Eskimo is disastrously changed when he mingles with an unscrupulous white trader.

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

Inuit traditional face tattoos have been forbidden for a century, and almost forgotten. Director Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, together with long-time...

This classic short film shows how to make an igloo using only snow and a knife. Two Inuit men in Canada’s Far North choose the site, cut and...

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...

Renowned Inuit lawyer Aaju Peter has long fought for the rights of her people. When her son suddenly dies, Aaju embarks on a journey to reclaim her...

Documentary that follows a lone Inuit as he hunts, fishes and constructs an igloo, a way of life threatened by climate change.

A polar bear is hunted by Eskimos. But suddenly the hunt gets interrupted.

In the middle ages a small Greenlandic boy comes drifting with an Iceberg to a remote and superstitious settlement in Iceland and is believed to be...

A pair head to the frozen wastes with an expedition in search of radium deposits. Certain members of the group succumb to greed, plotting to bump off...

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

Mosha Michael made an assured directorial debut with this seven-minute short, a relaxed, narration-free depiction of an Inuk seal hunt. Having...

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

Animated Canadian film.

A young teacher, Eva Nygaard, arrives in Greenland from Denmark to surprise her fiance, the Doctor Erik Halsøe, but is crushed to find he has...