Zacharias Kunuk Movies
- 2002
Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner72002HD
Based on a local legend and set in an unknown era, it deals with universal themes of love, possessiveness, family, jealousy and power. Beautifully...
- 2010
Reel Injun
Reel Injun7.12010HD
The evolution of the depiction of the various Native American peoples in cinema, from the silent era to the present day: how their image on the...
- 2011
The National Parks Project
The National Parks Project52011HD
In an increasingly urban nation, Canada’s national parks are a treasured escape into extraordinary beauty and rugged wilderness. If the Group...
- 2009
Exile
Exile02009HD
Zacharias Kunuk tackles the subject of the High Arctic Relocation from an Inuit point of view in the documentary Exile. In 1953, Inuit families were...
- 2016
Searchers
Searchers7.22016HD
Inuk filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk (Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner) returns with this Arctic epic inspired by the classic John Ford western of the same...
- 2018
Edge of the Knife
Edge of the Knife6.82018HD
Island of Haida Gwaii, northern Canada, 19th century. During a fishing gathering, Adiits'ii commits an unfortunate act. Tormented, he runs away to...
- 2021
The Shaman's Apprentice
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A young shaman must face her first test: a trip underground to visit Kannaaluk, The One Below, who holds the answers to why a community member has...
- 2010
Qapirangajuq: Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change
Qapirangajuq: Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change62010HD
Director Zacharias Kunuk (Atanarjuat The Fast Runner) and researcher and filmmaker Dr. Ian Mauro (Seeds of Change) have teamed up with Inuit...
- 2019
One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk
One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk7.32019HD
1961. In Kapuivik, an Inuit man named Noah Piugattuk and his compatriots are visited by a white man who says they have to move to a reservation.
- 2006
The Journals of Knud Rasmussen
The Journals of Knud Rasmussen5.42006HD
Based on the journal of Knud Rasmussen's "Great Sled Journey" of 1922 across arctic Canada. The film is shot from the perspective of the Inuit,...
- 2009
What Belongs to Inuit
What Belongs to Inuit02009HD
A group of Nunavut elders travel to five museums in North America to see and identify artifacts, tools and clothing collected from their Inuit...
- 1993
Fish Traps
Fish Traps01993HD
As summer ends near Igloolik in the 1930's, three families build a saputi to trap fish going upriver for the winter. The days are getting shorter and...
- 1991
Messages from the Past
Messages from the Past01991HD
In 1991, Igloolik Isuma Productions gathered 13 Igloolik elders for a week of discussion, to choose and then record 24 traditional ajaja songs...
- 2011
Sirmilik
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Director Zacharias Kunuk explores Sirmilik National Park, near the Nunavut community of Pond Inlet, through the voice of an Inuit elder. Winner...
- 1970
Wrong Husband
Wrong Husband01970HD
A new feature film from Zacharias Kunuk. Set hundreds of years in the past, the film draws on old Inuit legends to tell the story of an arranged...
- 1988
Gathering Place
Gathering Place01988HD
Four Inuit families build a qaggiq, a large communal igloo, to mark the approach of spring with singing and games. A young man woos a girl but her...
- 1991
Going Inland
Going Inland01991HD
For the Igloolik Inuit, summer is the time of Nunaqpa, 'going inland,' that is, hunting for caribou to get sufficient meat provisions for the cold...
- 2019
Silakut
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In a feature documentary, Silakut, filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk talks to people from the five Northern Baffin Communities affected by the proposed...
- 1999
Nipi (Voice)
Nipi (Voice)01999HD
From the Unikaatuatiit (Story Tellers) Series. A film by Isuma Productions.
- 1985
From Inuk Point of View
From Inuk Point of View01985HD
In 1985, Zacharias Kunuk broke the race barrier at Canada Council for the Arts when his Inuktitut-language video, From Inuk Point of View, was the...