Inuit Movies

  • 2021
    Being prepared

    Being prepared

    Being prepared

    02021HD

    As the global pandemic reaches into the Arctic Archipelago, Inuk filmmaker Carol Kunnuk documents how unfamiliar new protocols affect her family and...

    Being prepared
  • 1973
    Animation from Cape Dorset

    Animation from Cape Dorset

    Animation from Cape Dorset

    01973HD

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

    Animation from Cape Dorset
  • 2013
    Bering. Equilibrio y resistencia

    Bering. Equilibrio y resistencia

    Bering. Equilibrio y resistencia

    7.252013HD

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

    Bering. Equilibrio y resistencia
  • 1949
    How to Build an Igloo

    How to Build an Igloo

    How to Build an Igloo

    6.71949HD

    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...

    How to Build an Igloo
  • 2007
    Qallunaat!

    Qallunaat!

    Qallunaat!

    5.72007HD

    Qallunaat! Why White People Are Funny is an irreverent look at Western Civilization through Inuit eyes. Inspired by the satirical essays of Zebedee...

    Qallunaat!
  • 1988
    Nanook Revisited

    Nanook Revisited

    Nanook Revisited

    01988HD

    Filmmakers revisit Inukjuak, the Inuit village where Robert J. Flaherty filmed Nanook of the North in the early twentieth century, and examine the...

    Nanook Revisited
  • 2010
    Qalupalik

    Qalupalik

    Qalupalik

    6.32010HD

    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...

    Qalupalik
  • 1970
    Inuk Woman City Blues

    Inuk Woman City Blues

    Inuk Woman City Blues

    01970HD

    Follows homeless, addicted and alienated Greenlandic women in Copenhagen, Denmark; includes fragments of Greenlandic culture.

    Inuk Woman City Blues
  • 2015
    Of Ravens and Children

    Of Ravens and Children

    Of Ravens and Children

    02015HD

    Of Ravens and Children
  • 2010
    Lumaajuuq

    Lumaajuuq

    Lumaajuuq

    62010HD

    This animated short is a tragic and twisted story about the dangers of revenge. A cruel mother mistreats her son, feeding him dog meat and forcing...

    Lumaajuuq
  • 2020
    Midnight Kids

    Midnight Kids

    Midnight Kids

    02020HD

    Utquiagvik is the northernmost city in Alaska, located 555 km beyond the Arctic Circle. This meditative documentary follows its young Inuit...

    Midnight Kids
  • 2009
    The Experimental Eskimos

    The Experimental Eskimos

    The Experimental Eskimos

    62009HD

    In the early 1960s the Canadian government conducted an experiment in social engineering. Three young Inuit boys were separated from their families...

    The Experimental Eskimos
  • 1956
    Qivitoq

    Qivitoq

    Qivitoq

    6.11956HD

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

    Qivitoq
  • 2021
    The Boys

    The Boys

    The Boys

    02021HD

    Follow this ever brief conversation that is deeper then the actual words between the two woman and their families. Set in the landscape of Iqaluit, a...

    The Boys
  • 1989
    Eskimos und die Zivilisation

    Eskimos und die Zivilisation

    Eskimos und die Zivilisation

    01989HD

    Short film about inuits

    Eskimos und die Zivilisation
  • 2009
    Nya vädrets offer

    Nya vädrets offer

    Nya vädrets offer

    02009HD

    "Melting Lives - Victims of the New Weather" is a six-part documentary series in which the viewers meet people in the Arctic region who live close to...

    Nya vädrets offer
  • 1988
    Lypa

    Lypa

    Lypa

    01988HD

    A look at the life and work of Inuit hunter and artist Lypa Pitsiulak.

    Lypa
  • 2017
    Ukaliq and Kalla Go Fishing

    Ukaliq and Kalla Go Fishing

    Ukaliq and Kalla Go Fishing

    02017HD

    The story of an ice-fishing trip taken by two unlikely friends—Ukaliq the Arctic hare and Kalla the lemming. Well-meaning but impatient, Ukaliq...

    Ukaliq and Kalla Go Fishing
  • 2007
    Waterproof

    Waterproof

    Waterproof

    02007HD

    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...

    Waterproof
  • 1967
    Netsilik Eskimos, VI: Building a Kayak

    Netsilik Eskimos, VI: Building a Kayak

    Netsilik Eskimos, VI: Building a Kayak

    51967HD

    Now it is July - summer. The run-off is in full spate and open water shows offshore. Ice cakes melt on the shingle. On the bay are ducks. It is time...

    Netsilik Eskimos, VI: Building a Kayak