Inuit Movies

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,...

Nalujuk Night is an up close look at an exhilarating, and sometimes terrifying, Labrador Inuit tradition. Every January 6th from the dark of the...

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

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

This documentary closely follows a group of people living in the Bering Strait and delves into the fundamental aspects of their daily lives, their...

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

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

A late-winter/early-spring sequence documenting lake-ice fishing, camp life, and subsistence practices.

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

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

A spring sea-ice sequence documenting travel, camp construction, domestic labor, and seal hunting among Netsilingmiut families.

This feature film is a documentary portrait of Joseph Idlout, a man who was once the world's most famous Inuit. Unknown to most Canadians today,...

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

A summer river sequence documenting stone-weir fishing, communal labor, and domestic life.

In a small town in the Canadian Arctic, Ippik, a young Inuit woman, suffers in an abusive relationship. She starts to heal when she connects with...

Part oral history and part visual poem, Miss Campbell: Inuk Teacher is the story of Evelyn Campbell, a trailblazer for an Inuit-led educational...

Every winter for decades, the Northwest Territories, in the Canadian Far North, changes its face. While the landscape is covered with snow and lakes...

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