Inuit Movies

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

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...

For centuries, Inuit in the Arctic have lived on and around the frozen ocean. Now, as climate change is rapidly melting the sea ice between Canada...

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

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

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

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

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

He was called "He Who Has Two Souls". He was beautiful as a woman. And handsome as a man. He hesitated.

Living with Giants delves into the imaginative world of Paulusie Kasudluak, a young Inuk facing responsibilities as he transitions into adulthood....

An intimate portrait of teenagers trying to understand their world and their possibilities. The film weaves together video shot by teens and by the...

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

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

This second Isuma-Artcirq co-production by Igloolik youth is a story about a young Inuk who lost his love. Using alcohol to put reality and the past...

In 2032 an eight-year old boy, displaced by global warming, fends for himself as an environmental refugee in a hostile northern metropolis. Haunted...

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

This collection assembles the first animated films to be made by Inuit artists at the NFB. Featured is work by Solomonie Pootoogook, Timmun Alariaq,...

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

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