Inuit Movies

  • 2025
    They Have to Hear Us: Canada’s Duty to Consult Inuit

    They Have to Hear Us: Canada’s Duty to Consult Inuit

    They Have to Hear Us: Canada’s Duty to Consult Inuit

    02025HD

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

    They Have to Hear Us: Canada’s Duty to Consult Inuit
  • 1964
    Eskimo Artist: Kenojuak

    Eskimo Artist: Kenojuak

    Eskimo Artist: Kenojuak

    5.7141964HD

    This documentary shows how an Inuit artist's drawings are transferred to stone, printed and sold. Kenojuak Ashevak became the first woman involved...

    Eskimo Artist: Kenojuak
  • 2015
    Nimmikaage: She Dances for People

    Nimmikaage: She Dances for People

    Nimmikaage: She Dances for People

    02015HD

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

    Nimmikaage: She Dances for People
  • 2003
    Islet

    Islet

    Islet

    102003HD

    Combining figurative abstraction with magic realism, this animated short depicts a world in which whales fall out of the sky and fish turn into...

    Islet
  • 1967
    Netsilik Eskimos, V: At the Winter Sea Ice Camp

    Netsilik Eskimos, V: At the Winter Sea Ice Camp

    Netsilik Eskimos, V: At the Winter Sea Ice Camp

    5.251967HD

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

    Netsilik Eskimos, V: At the Winter Sea Ice Camp
  • 2015
    Ogress of the Gravelbank

    Ogress of the Gravelbank

    Ogress of the Gravelbank

    02015HD

    Inuit oral history is filled with strange beings and supernatural creatures. One of these feared land spirits is the Ogress of the Gravelbank. This...

    Ogress of the Gravelbank
  • 1901
    Esquimaux Village

    Esquimaux Village

    Esquimaux Village

    71901HD

    “One of the principal features at the Pan-American Exposition is the Alaskan or Esquimaux Village. In this most interesting exhibit, scenes are...

    Esquimaux Village
  • 1967
    Netsilik Eskimos, IV: Group Hunting on the Spring Ice

    Netsilik Eskimos, IV: Group Hunting on the Spring Ice

    Netsilik Eskimos, IV: Group Hunting on the Spring Ice

    6.3331967HD

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

    Netsilik Eskimos, IV: Group Hunting on the Spring Ice
  • 2000
    Ikingut

    Ikingut

    Ikingut

    7.22000HD

    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...

    Ikingut
  • 2011
    Seven Sins: Sloth

    Seven Sins: Sloth

    Seven Sins: Sloth

    02011HD

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

    Seven Sins: Sloth
  • 1983
    Our Land, Our Truth

    Our Land, Our Truth

    Our Land, Our Truth

    71983HD

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

    Our Land, Our Truth
  • 2011
    Throat Song

    Throat Song

    Throat Song

    82011HD

    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...

    Throat Song
  • 1979
    Canada Vignettes: Vignettes from Labrador North

    Canada Vignettes: Vignettes from Labrador North

    Canada Vignettes: Vignettes from Labrador North

    71979HD

    Brief history and profile of Inuit communities in Northern Labrador and the role of the Moravian missionaries in the region. Warning for outdated and...

    Canada Vignettes: Vignettes from Labrador North
  • 2010
    The Bear Facts

    The Bear Facts

    The Bear Facts

    5.62010HD

    In this animated short, a self-important colonial explorer emerges from a sailing ship and plants a flag on the Arctic ice, as a bemused Inuit hunter...

    The Bear Facts
  • 1990
    The Woman Who Raised a Bear as Her Son

    The Woman Who Raised a Bear as Her Son

    The Woman Who Raised a Bear as Her Son

    01990HD

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

    The Woman Who Raised a Bear as Her Son
  • 2009
    Nuummioq

    Nuummioq

    Nuummioq

    4.4552009HD

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

    Nuummioq
  • 1967
    Netsilik Eskimos, VI: Building a Kayak

    Netsilik Eskimos, VI: Building a Kayak

    Netsilik Eskimos, VI: Building a Kayak

    61967HD

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

    Netsilik Eskimos, VI: Building a Kayak
  • 1967
    Netsilik Eskimos, VII: Fishing at the Stone Weir

    Netsilik Eskimos, VII: Fishing at the Stone Weir

    Netsilik Eskimos, VII: Fishing at the Stone Weir

    71967HD

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

    Netsilik Eskimos, VII: Fishing at the Stone Weir
  • 2017
    Highway to the Arctic

    Highway to the Arctic

    Highway to the Arctic

    72017HD

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

    Highway to the Arctic
  • 1967
    Netsilik Eskimos, IX: Stalking Seal on the Spring Ice

    Netsilik Eskimos, IX: Stalking Seal on the Spring Ice

    Netsilik Eskimos, IX: Stalking Seal on the Spring Ice

    7.3331967HD

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

    Netsilik Eskimos, IX: Stalking Seal on the Spring Ice